Font, ScreenSaver & USBNetwork Hacks for Kindle 2.x, 3.x & 4.x - Page 60

NiLuJe · 10-15-2010, 01:47 PM

@meem: It's as simple as ever, you're just trying to complicate things yourself, read the docs... There is *no* file to edit... (Unless you really know what you're doing, which you clearly don't, so please forget about editing files...).

@Dusty Star: No, you don't need to reinstall anything, a factory reset doesn't remove the hacks, it just clears the userstore. (And, as a sidenote, you really *don't* have to do a factory reset when your K3 barfs on some fonts, just switch them, or disable the hack [by renaming the linkfonts/auto file], and restart).

With which font set are you having issues? (I doubt I'll be able to do anything about that, given that I can't reproduce any of these issues on my device, but still, it'd be good to know

).

@Legion: No idea, but I don't *think* that the Update link is disabled on unregistered devices, so you shouldn't have any issue

.

@pashlit: You can't (easily, that is, you'd have to edit the default Caecilia family to insert a full set of Cyrillic glyph into it...). (Note that this would be way easier to do on FW 3.x, because the Cyrillic glyphs are pulled from another font entierely).

Dusty Star · 10-15-2010, 04:14 PM

NiLuJe, Thank You for replying.

The fonts I have tried and won't work on my K3 3g/Wi-Fi are the Big/Big125/Big150. Each install gives me a reboot up to point of boy under tree and stalls. At that point, I plug USB cable back in and re-install backup fonts from original set.

I really had hoped to benefit from one of these fonts for easier menu/book title reading as I need to use magnify glass otherwise.

Far as reading books...I am okay using the 6th size (from left to right).

Dusty

NiLuJe · 10-15-2010, 04:33 PM

@Dusty Star: Well, yep, can't reproduce it. >_<".

I'll try to re-do them as CFF OTF over the weekend, they'll at least look better on K3 devices for those without fussy Kindles...

. And hopefully they'll work on those fussy Kindles

.

Dusty Star · 10-15-2010, 04:54 PM

@NiLuJe: I would be absolutely thrilled if you can work it out.

I am curious, when you say: can't reproduce it. Why not? As in you mean, you can't install on your device? Why?

Do you know if anyone else able to installed the big fonts? If not, trust me...you'll make a lot of low-vision readers extremely grateful.

Until I hear from you next time...I'll patiently wait, hoping you'll have the solution for me.

Thanks,
Dusty

NiLuJe · 10-15-2010, 05:09 PM

@Dusty Star: I meant that they work fine on my device

.

Pushka · 10-15-2010, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dusty Star

@NiLuJe: I would be absolutely thrilled if you can work it out.
I am curious, when you say: can't reproduce it. Why not? As in you mean, you can't install on your device? Why?
Dusty

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@Dusty Star: I meant that they work fine on my device

.

It is like when you take your car for service because something is going wrong, but not all the time. And of course it performs beautifully when you try to demonstrate in front of the mechanic.

But within 10 minutes of driving away, it plays up again.

I think you and I have very sensitive new-age kindles Dusty!

NiLuJe · 10-15-2010, 09:53 PM

Yeah, and it's even worse than that, because, when it happens on your Kindle, it's *not* random, it's every time, and it's only with specific font files that, apparently, work fine for a number of other people... :/.

Dusty Star · 10-15-2010, 10:27 PM

Pushka Guru: "I think you and I have very sensitive new-age kindles Dusty!"

Hmm and here I thought it was an old-age thing...LOL

Meanwhile, the big fonts works great, on my K2g...so I KNOW the fonts do work...just not on my K3. Not yet anyway...

BTW...Pushka Guru, we never "needed to do a factory default/reset" when staring at the dreaded blank screen or stalled reboot. When that happens, plug in USB cable and drop backup fonts back in font folder and restart. No panic of bricking our Kindles necessary. Learning more as I go along here.

Grandma suppose to read, to the grand kids, not learning how to hack devices. LOL

NiLuJe · 10-15-2010, 11:44 PM

@Dusty Star: I'll work on the fonts over the wek-end, that'll at least make them sharper on a K3, and that should eliminate the need to have different font packages for the K3, because they'll still render the same on a K2 (provided the framework doesn't give up on CFF fonts on the K2...). (Because FT's autohinter doesn't care much how the font is natively hinted).

Dusty Star · 10-16-2010, 02:34 AM

What I find disturbing...Amazon knew prior to K3, there were many complaints regarding the menu text were just too small and too light. They could of just as easily corrected this for the K3.

Look how bold and dark all the Kindle messages are on the K3 is...such as "Please wait while your device update" (something along that line). Easy to read, even with my low vision.

Viewing the big 150 font on my K2...the text just barely runs off the edge of the screen. So there is definitely plenty of room to expand the menus text up to that point, as well bold/darker. I did not try the Big or Big 125 fonts on the K2..but know that would be a great enhancement, for many who reads their Kindle books just fine, but struggle to read the menus.

And had Amazon developers done that...NiLuJe wouldn't be tying up his week-end reworking this for me. Given that...just what would you be doing instead, NiLuJe? (probably working on someone else hack issues...so my issues is taking NiLuJe time away from others who needs his help too.

But all said and done, I'm grateful for this board and all the team effort to putting the hacks together. I love my screensaver photos of my precious beautiful grandchildren. I also made the photos into a 'book' to show as an album, turn pages like a book to see each photo, rather then putting sleep mode on and off in order to show off all the photos at one time.

That alone...is priceless to me. Thank You

NiLuJe · 10-16-2010, 01:29 PM

They did add the 'Voice Guide' feature to somewhat address that issue

.

Granted, it's not exactly the same thing, but it does enable accessibility to a wider audience than just bigger fonts.

[Ahmed] · 10-16-2010, 05:17 PM

I'd love to have a customizeable homescreen. Smaller fonts and less space between lines would work well for my eyes... And allow easier organisation of collections :/

NiLuJe · 10-16-2010, 05:29 PM

@[Ahmed]: That's not doable without hacking the java framework itself.

Dusty Star · 10-16-2010, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

They did add the 'Voice Guide' feature to somewhat address that issue

.

Granted, it's not exactly the same thing, but it does enable accessibility to a wider audience than just bigger fonts.

Ahh yes...very good point, indeed. I agree, that is probably the answer for most. In my case, obviously a minority...hearing loss prevents me from making out the speech, even using a headset.

JohnsonZA · 10-17-2010, 09:18 AM

I'm trying to restore the Sans family of fonts back to the default K3 fonts as I prefer them, but I'm stuck on how to do this.

Do I just delete the Sans_*.ttf files or must I edit the local.conf file?

10-15-2010, 01:47 PM	#886
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	@meem: It's as simple as ever, you're just trying to complicate things yourself, read the docs... There is no file to edit... (Unless you really know what you're doing, which you clearly don't, so please forget about editing files...). @Dusty Star: No, you don't need to reinstall anything, a factory reset doesn't remove the hacks, it just clears the userstore. (And, as a sidenote, you really don't have to do a factory reset when your K3 barfs on some fonts, just switch them, or disable the hack [by renaming the linkfonts/auto file], and restart). With which font set are you having issues? (I doubt I'll be able to do anything about that, given that I can't reproduce any of these issues on my device, but still, it'd be good to know ). @Legion: No idea, but I don't think that the Update link is disabled on unregistered devices, so you shouldn't have any issue . @pashlit: You can't (easily, that is, you'd have to edit the default Caecilia family to insert a full set of Cyrillic glyph into it...). (Note that this would be way easier to do on FW 3.x, because the Cyrillic glyphs are pulled from another font entierely). Last edited by NiLuJe; 10-15-2010 at 01:49 PM.

10-15-2010, 10:27 PM	#893
Dusty Star Member Posts: 23 Karma: 416 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle 2G - Kindle 3 3G/Wi-Fi	Pushka Guru: "I think you and I have very sensitive new-age kindles Dusty!" Hmm and here I thought it was an old-age thing...LOL Meanwhile, the big fonts works great, on my K2g...so I *KNOW* the fonts do work...just not on my K3. Not yet anyway... BTW...Pushka Guru, we never "needed to do a factory default/reset" when staring at the dreaded blank screen or stalled reboot. When that happens, plug in USB cable and drop backup fonts back in font folder and restart. No panic of bricking our Kindles necessary. Learning more as I go along here. Grandma suppose to read, to the grand kids, not learning how to hack devices. LOL Last edited by Dusty Star; 10-15-2010 at 10:30 PM.

10-17-2010, 09:18 AM	#900
JohnsonZA Member Posts: 10 Karma: 12 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3 3G+Wifi	I'm trying to restore the Sans family of fonts back to the default K3 fonts as I prefer them, but I'm stuck on how to do this. Do I just delete the Sans_.ttf files or must I edit the local.conf file? Last edited by JohnsonZA; 10-17-2010 at 09:22 AM.*

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10-15-2010, 04:14 PM	#887
Dusty Star Member Posts: 23 Karma: 416 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle 2G - Kindle 3 3G/Wi-Fi	NiLuJe, Thank You for replying. The fonts I have tried and won't work on my K3 3g/Wi-Fi are the Big/Big125/Big150. Each install gives me a reboot up to point of boy under tree and stalls. At that point, I plug USB cable back in and re-install backup fonts from original set. I really had hoped to benefit from one of these fonts for easier menu/book title reading as I need to use magnify glass otherwise. Far as reading books...I am okay using the 6th size (from left to right). Dusty

10-15-2010, 04:33 PM	#888
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	@Dusty Star: Well, yep, can't reproduce it. >_<". I'll try to re-do them as CFF OTF over the weekend, they'll at least look better on K3 devices for those without fussy Kindles... . And hopefully they'll work on those fussy Kindles .

10-15-2010, 04:54 PM	#889
Dusty Star Member Posts: 23 Karma: 416 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle 2G - Kindle 3 3G/Wi-Fi	@NiLuJe: I would be absolutely thrilled if you can work it out. I am curious, when you say: can't reproduce it. Why not? As in you mean, you can't install on your device? Why? Do you know if anyone else able to installed the big fonts? If not, trust me...you'll make a lot of low-vision readers extremely grateful. Until I hear from you next time...I'll patiently wait, hoping you'll have the solution for me. Thanks, Dusty

10-15-2010, 05:09 PM	#890
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	@Dusty Star: I meant that they work fine on my device .

10-15-2010, 09:53 PM	#892
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	Yeah, and it's even worse than that, because, when it happens on your Kindle, it's not random, it's every time, and it's only with specific font files that, apparently, work fine for a number of other people... :/.

10-15-2010, 11:44 PM	#894
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	@Dusty Star: I'll work on the fonts over the wek-end, that'll at least make them sharper on a K3, and that should eliminate the need to have different font packages for the K3, because they'll still render the same on a K2 (provided the framework doesn't give up on CFF fonts on the K2...). (Because FT's autohinter doesn't care much how the font is natively hinted).

10-16-2010, 02:34 AM	#895
Dusty Star Member Posts: 23 Karma: 416 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle 2G - Kindle 3 3G/Wi-Fi	What I find disturbing...Amazon knew prior to K3, there were many complaints regarding the menu text were just too small and too light. They could of just as easily corrected this for the K3. Look how bold and dark all the Kindle messages are on the K3 is...such as "Please wait while your device update" (something along that line). Easy to read, even with my low vision. Viewing the big 150 font on my K2...the text just barely runs off the edge of the screen. So there is definitely plenty of room to expand the menus text up to that point, as well bold/darker. I did not try the Big or Big 125 fonts on the K2..but know that would be a great enhancement, for many who reads their Kindle books just fine, but struggle to read the menus. And had Amazon developers done that...NiLuJe wouldn't be tying up his week-end reworking this for me. Given that...just what would you be doing instead, NiLuJe? (probably working on someone else hack issues...so my issues is taking NiLuJe time away from others who needs his help too. But all said and done, I'm grateful for this board and all the team effort to putting the hacks together. I love my screensaver photos of my precious beautiful grandchildren. I also made the photos into a 'book' to show as an album, turn pages like a book to see each photo, rather then putting sleep mode on and off in order to show off all the photos at one time. That alone...is priceless to me. Thank You

10-16-2010, 01:29 PM	#896
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	They did add the 'Voice Guide' feature to somewhat address that issue . Granted, it's not exactly the same thing, but it does enable accessibility to a wider audience than just bigger fonts.

10-16-2010, 05:17 PM	#897
[Ahmed] Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle³	I'd love to have a customizeable homescreen. Smaller fonts and less space between lines would work well for my eyes... And allow easier organisation of collections :/

10-16-2010, 05:29 PM	#898
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	@[Ahmed]: That's not doable without hacking the java framework itself.

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