Font, ScreenSaver & USBNetwork Hacks for Kindle 2.x, 3.x & 4.x - Page 39

911jason · 09-21-2010, 07:54 PM

I didn't put the random file back in the linkss folder after installing the new hack. I had done it previously and then installed the .13 hack over the top of that.

NiLuJe · 09-21-2010, 08:09 PM

@911jason: That's it. It's not removed when you install (or when you uninstall, for that matter) the hack, so it's still there, and your scrensavers are still randomized

.

@all: Hurray. Fonts v3.8.N. K3 support!

I advise those especially interested to tweak the International fonts, and the browser fonts to read the first post, a few things have changed

.

Namely:

* The K3 renderer uses TrueType bytecode hinting instructions. Fonts that have nice hinting instructions will look very sharp, while fonts with no/crappy bytecode will look fuzzy, especially at small sizes. The upside is that, finally, full Serif fonts can look fantastic, provided they've got good hinting code.

* The K3 uses a bunch of auxilliary fonts for CJK/International scripts. I simplified this a bit. There's two new custom fonts:

CJK.ttf: For Chinese/Japanese/Korean (Droid Fallback by default)
I18N.ttf: Everything else (DejaVu Sans by default)

* The browser uses fontconfig to pick the fonts. For those familiar with it, you know it uses a very powerful XML config, and uses a cache of available fonts to speed things up. While the config part of things is not such a problem for us, the cache is. On the tiny Kindle CPU, it takes approximately 5 minutes to regenerate this cache!
Because of this, handling the browser fonts is disabled by default. Check the first post if you want to try it (it works, it just takes a crapload of time each time you switch fonts ^^).

EDIT: And MR Wiki updated. (Without the nobrowser spiel, to avoid being way too confusing)

P.S @mods: Would it be possible to change the title of the thread to "Fonts & ScreenSavers hacks for Kindle 2.x & 3.x" please? Thanks!

flandroid · 09-21-2010, 11:05 PM

Wait does the randomiser just shuffle them once?

Also, wahoo for the font hack! Are all the fonts listed on the wiki properly hinted? Or have you not tried them all yet?

lunixer · 09-22-2010, 12:03 AM

Thanks for all of these hacks! I just found them but I'll probably try the font one tomorrow. I am in love with Calibri. The one hack that I am still looking for though is the ability to use the book cover as the screensaver. Probably impossible, but I want it so much.

Pushka · 09-22-2010, 12:47 AM

My head hurts too much at the moment to try out the new fonts, (and it isnt even a hangover one) but

once again to NiLuJe - I know how much you work on doing this for us all.

What is your day job NiLuJe? Programming? Or is this just fun for you to do? And your nick - where does that spring from?

Pushka · 09-22-2010, 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lunixer

Thanks for all of these hacks! I just found them but I'll probably try the font one tomorrow. I am in love with Calibri. The one hack that I am still looking for though is the ability to use the book cover as the screensaver. Probably impossible, but I want it so much.

You need to see Kindleboards, and search for "Book cover" or similar. Jason911 is doing them for people if you ask nicely

richardb · 09-22-2010, 02:37 AM

With your font hack Chinese displays now perfectly on a Kindle 3.

Converted chinese epubs, the book titles and even the speech marks " are shown correctly.

Thank you so much NiLuJe !!!

Amazon and the world owes you so much, because now you perfected their Kindles.

Shame on Amazon for delivering such defective software and highest respect for NiLuJe for fixing all this professionally.

meem · 09-22-2010, 06:56 AM

Thank you for keep updating.

NiLuJe · 09-22-2010, 07:33 AM

@flandroid: Nope, it shuffles at every boot

.

As for the fonts packages, other than those using DejaVu/Droid, those I converted myself have no hinting instructions at all. They'll look fuzzy as hell. I'm currently trying some things to see if I can make some of them somewhat usable on K3

.
But DejaVu & Droid are very sharp

(The default font set is DejaVu Serif + Droid Sans + DejaVu Mono).

@richardb: Is that with the default font set? If it is, that's good to know, thanks!

@Pushka: Nope, I'm just a lowly student

. But I've been using Linux for a while now, and I like to tinker with the software side of things, so I picked up a few things along the way

. As for the nick, it comes from a local radio show than aired a while ago in Paris, and it also happens to be an anagram for "Julien", which is the name of my brother. (Nooo, I totally didn't steal his nick...

). The funny CamelCase is a remnant of my early FPS gaming days, and it stuck, but it doesn't bother me if people get it wrong

.

93terp · 09-22-2010, 08:19 AM

woohoo to the fonts hack!!!

Now for the stupid question of the day: where can I get fonts to use with the hack?

richardb · 09-22-2010, 08:49 AM

@NiLuJe Yes, just right out of the box. Also German works too.

daffy4u · 09-22-2010, 09:54 AM

I think I've come to the conclusion that neither of the Fontin fonts works on K3 (of course it's probably just me

). On both the hackless hack and the full hack, I am unable to open my content. With the full hack my home screen and menus show the font (and they look bad) but I cannot open any book after applying the font.

I've used this font on my K2 and 505 with no problems but just can't get it to work with K3. I had to a 4th factory reset.

suecsi · 09-22-2010, 10:09 AM

That's a pity. I've done the SS hack to my K3, but not the font hack yet. I had the Fontin fonts on my K2i and DX though so they would be nice on the K3. I wonder why they don't work?

NiLuJe · 09-22-2010, 10:16 AM

@flandroid: Yep, it's hit & miss. I'll probably end up mixing hinted & unhinted fonts, if at least the Serif_Regular is okay hinted without too much tweaking.

@daffy4u: Huh. I'll try this one as my next set...

NiLuJe · 09-22-2010, 11:50 AM

Well, here's a good news: OTF Type 1/2 (CFF) fonts seem to work fine, fully hinted! Yay'!

09-21-2010, 08:09 PM	#572
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@911jason: That's it. It's not removed when you install (or when you uninstall, for that matter) the hack, so it's still there, and your scrensavers are still randomized . @all: Hurray. Fonts v3.8.N. K3 support! I advise those especially interested to tweak the International fonts, and the browser fonts to read the first post, a few things have changed . Namely: * The K3 renderer uses TrueType bytecode hinting instructions. Fonts that have nice hinting instructions will look very sharp, while fonts with no/crappy bytecode will look fuzzy, especially at small sizes. The upside is that, finally, full Serif fonts can look fantastic, provided they've got good hinting code. * The K3 uses a bunch of auxilliary fonts for CJK/International scripts. I simplified this a bit. There's two new custom fonts: CJK.ttf: For Chinese/Japanese/Korean (Droid Fallback by default) I18N.ttf: Everything else (DejaVu Sans by default) * The browser uses fontconfig to pick the fonts. For those familiar with it, you know it uses a very powerful XML config, and uses a cache of available fonts to speed things up. While the config part of things is not such a problem for us, the cache is. On the tiny Kindle CPU, it takes approximately 5 minutes to regenerate this cache! Because of this, handling the browser fonts is disabled by default. Check the first post if you want to try it (it works, it just takes a crapload of time each time you switch fonts ^^). EDIT: And MR Wiki updated. (Without the nobrowser spiel, to avoid being way too confusing) P.S @mods: Would it be possible to change the title of the thread to "Fonts & ScreenSavers hacks for Kindle 2.x & 3.x" please? Thanks! Last edited by NiLuJe; 09-21-2010 at 08:20 PM.

09-22-2010, 12:47 AM	#575
Pushka Wizard Posts: 1,119 Karma: 1019140 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Australia Device: kindle, Ipad, Iphone, Nexus and PPW	My head hurts too much at the moment to try out the new fonts, (and it isnt even a hangover one) but once again to NiLuJe - I know how much you work on doing this for us all. What is your day job NiLuJe? Programming? Or is this just fun for you to do? And your nick - where does that spring from? Last edited by Pushka; 09-22-2010 at 12:49 AM.

09-22-2010, 02:37 AM	#577
richardb Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 12 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle DXG + Kindle 3	With your font hack Chinese displays now perfectly on a Kindle 3. Converted chinese epubs, the book titles and even the speech marks " are shown correctly. Thank you so much NiLuJe !!! Amazon and the world owes you so much, because now you perfected their Kindles. Shame on Amazon for delivering such defective software and highest respect for NiLuJe for fixing all this professionally. Last edited by richardb; 09-22-2010 at 06:12 AM.

09-22-2010, 11:50 AM	#585
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Well, here's a good news: OTF Type 1/2 (CFF) fonts seem to work fine, fully hinted! Yay'! Last edited by NiLuJe; 09-22-2010 at 12:28 PM.

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09-21-2010, 07:54 PM	#571
911jason Zealot Posts: 111 Karma: 128 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Simi Valley, CA Device: Kobo Libra Colour & Kindle Oasis	I didn't put the random file back in the linkss folder after installing the new hack. I had done it previously and then installed the .13 hack over the top of that.

09-21-2010, 11:05 PM	#573
flandroid Connoisseur Posts: 98 Karma: 294 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 2/3/4/PW3	Wait does the randomiser just shuffle them once? Also, wahoo for the font hack! Are all the fonts listed on the wiki properly hinted? Or have you not tried them all yet?

09-22-2010, 12:03 AM	#574
lunixer Addict Posts: 231 Karma: 928 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Thanks for all of these hacks! I just found them but I'll probably try the font one tomorrow. I am in love with Calibri. The one hack that I am still looking for though is the ability to use the book cover as the screensaver. Probably impossible, but I want it so much.

09-22-2010, 06:56 AM	#578
meem A Reader who can think..! Posts: 257 Karma: 108298 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Earth Planet Device: Kindle 3 WiFi - Kindle DX (B004)	Thank you for keep updating.

09-22-2010, 07:33 AM	#579
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@flandroid: Nope, it shuffles at every boot . As for the fonts packages, other than those using DejaVu/Droid, those I converted myself have no hinting instructions at all. They'll look fuzzy as hell. I'm currently trying some things to see if I can make some of them somewhat usable on K3 . But DejaVu & Droid are very sharp (The default font set is DejaVu Serif + Droid Sans + DejaVu Mono). @richardb: Is that with the default font set? If it is, that's good to know, thanks! @Pushka: Nope, I'm just a lowly student . But I've been using Linux for a while now, and I like to tinker with the software side of things, so I picked up a few things along the way . As for the nick, it comes from a local radio show than aired a while ago in Paris, and it also happens to be an anagram for "Julien", which is the name of my brother. (Nooo, I totally didn't steal his nick... ). The funny CamelCase is a remnant of my early FPS gaming days, and it stuck, but it doesn't bother me if people get it wrong .

09-22-2010, 08:19 AM	#580
93terp Fear The Turtle! Posts: 868 Karma: 4067244 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Margaritaville Device: KV, Kobo Forma, Kobo A1LE, KO3, K3	woohoo to the fonts hack!!! Now for the stupid question of the day: where can I get fonts to use with the hack?

09-22-2010, 08:49 AM	#581
richardb Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 12 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle DXG + Kindle 3	@NiLuJe Yes, just right out of the box. Also German works too.

09-22-2010, 09:54 AM	#582
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,734 Karma: 2434103 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: KDXG, KT, Oasis	I think I've come to the conclusion that neither of the Fontin fonts works on K3 (of course it's probably just me ). On both the hackless hack and the full hack, I am unable to open my content. With the full hack my home screen and menus show the font (and they look bad) but I cannot open any book after applying the font. I've used this font on my K2 and 505 with no problems but just can't get it to work with K3. I had to a 4th factory reset.

09-22-2010, 10:09 AM	#583
suecsi Rock Chick Posts: 429 Karma: 4965 Join Date: May 2009 Location: near Heathrow Device: Kindle 2i, Kindle DX, Kindle 3G	That's a pity. I've done the SS hack to my K3, but not the font hack yet. I had the Fontin fonts on my K2i and DX though so they would be nice on the K3. I wonder why they don't work?

09-22-2010, 10:16 AM	#584
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@flandroid: Yep, it's hit & miss. I'll probably end up mixing hinted & unhinted fonts, if at least the Serif_Regular is okay hinted without too much tweaking. @daffy4u: Huh. I'll try this one as my next set...

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