Touch Touch 1.9.4 is fontilicious

[Psyke]

Originally Posted by m_bisson

just curious... what are most books printed in? Is there a "common font"?

There are a few it seems :

http://www.self-pub.net/guides/choos...rightfont.html

[jiminrussell]

I added Arial, nice dark font for reading late in the day. Thanks for sharing your find Taming!

[baronrus]

Whats wrong with me? Tried it like 10 times my directory looks exactly like tamings (except I have a few more books installed at the moment) but no new fonts show up??

[joshmosh]

It looks like KEPUBs only

What a let down! Another proprietary "feature." Hopefully when support for fonts goes live regular EPUBs are included in the mix. The biggest downside to the Kobo is the KEPUB-only features...

[baronrus]

what did I do wrong?

[baronrus]

Kepub only. sorry but that is dissapointing.

I have been a die hard kobo supporter since the KO but this is getting on my nerves.

Sameer if you are listening it is time to ditch the kepub only font, dictionary, and notes. If you want to compete with the other readers

On further reflection I can see the advantage for KOBO to have the kepub their 'value added' format that way the booksotore has a competitive advantage over the other sources of content.

that being said i have some older epubs that I would really like to be able to change the font on.

[Toastedpine]

I don't really mind that much that this only works for kepubs, though I suspect that this issue is related to the dictionary and highlight limitations.

[taming]

Originally Posted by baronrus

Kepub only. sorry but that is lame.

Remember, this is a feature that has not yet been officially released! We know that some things that are currently kepub only will, at some point, be available for other formats. We just don't know what features, or when.

Me editorializing with nothing but my own opinion.

I'm willing to bet that a whole lot of Kobo users are buying the Kobo, downloading their books from Kobobooks and not looking for much beyond the best feature set that works with books purchased this way. Building out for them first makes sense to me--especially since Kobo has to pay a fee to Adobe for each book that is added to the reader as ADE ePUB--which is probably the 2nd most popular way folks are adding books to their readers. Of course they make zero, zilch, nada for books added to the reader from other stores or obtained in other ways. Kobo eventually has to make a profit, and doing this first makes a certain amount of sense.

[wes101]

did arial rounded M, copper black impact and times new roman

edit i tried doing them all -671 MB , only 7 appeared, least it didn't crash

[thepossum]

I can confirm that you can also use these "alternate" fonts for newspaper subscriptions. And for serif-hating readers like me, it's definitely nice to be able to use something darker than Avenir.

I copied the entire contents of /usr/local/calibre/resources/fonts/liberation/ from my Calibre installation to my /media/KOBOeReader/fonts/ and now I have a nice dark LiberationSans to read with.

I'm only assuming, but I imagine that copying over all four font files is required for "best" font viewing, so that italics and bold will all be rendered at their finest. For whatever it's worth, even with all four files in the fonts directory the Kobo's font chooser only shows "LiberationSans":

LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf
LiberationSans-Bold.ttf
LiberationSans-Italic.ttf
LiberationSans-Regular.ttf

[taming]

The book code indicates when bold, italics etc is used. We don't have to make that choice, only the name of the font is needed.

[thepossum]

My point being that you CAN just put in the plain "LiberationSans-Regular.ttf" file, but then when the Kobo needs to render italics or bold then it would only be kind of emulated. By also including the "-Bold" "-Italic" and "-BoldItalic" files then they're available for more "proper" font rendering. The link #16 by Psyke above explains that a little bit better.

[taming]

When you drag and drop from windows font folder the variants are also installed. I did not mean to imply that one should only install the single file and then let emulation do its thing.

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by taming

So, odd person that I am, and replacement Touch (oh, the joy) in hand, I wondered if it might be possible that the code for adding in our own fonts was there, even if the choice doesn't appear on a menu yet.

It is!

Attach your Kobo Touch (running 1.9.4) by USB so you can manage it as a device. Create a "fonts" directory off of the root. I don't think it actually matters if it is Fonts or fonts. Copy and paste the fonts you want (TTF or OTF) from your computer's fonts directory into the new fonts directory on your Kobo.

After you eject the reader, the fonts should appear in the "Aa" menu. I have added two so far, but when this feature was announced, we were told we could have 6 I think. It may be that the default fonts count toward whatever limit we have. A littke experimentation will tell .

I'm a serif fan for reading, and so far, I'm loving palatino linotype the best. OK, I'm loving Bookman Old Style the best now.

Are you serious you can do this? really? that makes life easier because certain things look better in certan fonts and for some dif fonts are easier to read.

Thanks for the tip

regards

jack

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by jackastor

Are you serious you can do this? really? that makes life easier because certain things look better in certan fonts and for some dif fonts are easier to read.

Thanks for the tip

regards

jack

Just followed tammers instructions it works great.. its sad that it does not work with non kepubs but it does work. prehaps what we need is a way to convert epubs to kpubs

But as he pointed out this is not supported as yet. We have yet to see what the Kobo Dudes will do

regards

pete