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I have been wrestling with my Times font and why it displayed italics as bold. Looking around here on the forum I chanced on a suggestion to use the exact name of the font. For example, the file for a Times font on my hard drive is named times.ttf, but the actual name of the font is Times New Roman. So renamed the files and, lo and behold, it works. Don't ask me why, I can't say the delectable option to add fonts of your own on the Kobo has been made easy, but here you go...
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There is a thread on here (somewhere in the Kobo forum) that goes into the font file naming requirements in some detail.
The name of the font file is important to the Kobo firmware. |
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I knew about the -Italic, -Bold and -BoldItalic suffixes, but I wasn't aware, until today, of the need to be careful with the first part of the name, other than it had to be the same for all 4 files.
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It's nice to know that all these bits and pieces of information are scattered around on this forum. And only on this forum! Once I have this subject completely under control I may write a sticky-worthy post as a how-to.
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Were any of those programs freeware by any chance? I wouldn't mind experimenting with font weight tweaking.
There's a weightier version of CharisSIL (incl smallcaps) around on these forums. That's the one I've been using. If you're interested I could try and find the post. |
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I think this might be the one
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Yes, that's the one I meant.
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That's the one that I am using. Perusing several threads, I find that I must be a very boring reader. I use the same stylesheet.css on virtually all books that I edit with Sigil, the same font when reading them on a Kobo device, etc. Now if I could have a virtual blue pencil...
Also, much happier with Sigil since the recent update to 6.2 -- 6.1 and it's jumping cursor, not to mention unchecking the checkbox in the clean source preference for "replace in all files" every time I opened Sigil was a PITA. Nothing like starting to type on line 56 and two characters later, typing on line 7. All I need now is to start creating epubs with audio and video files... |
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I thought I had broken my Glo's screen - it was displaying some pages with a lot of black horizontal and vertical lines (see the pic below) It turns out that this was due to the Fontin font that I had adjusted; I had increased the weight of the font (Regular, Italic, Bold, and BoldItalic) but the Glo was not happy with the increased weight in the Bold and BoldItalic. Strangely, the problem has only manifested itself in one book so far.
Once I had returned the Bold and BoldItalic to the previous versions the screen looked fine. I did not need the increased weight in the Bold and BoldItalic anyway, just the Regular and Italic. Please ignore the big white circle in the picture, that is just my camera flash. Last edited by ShellShock; 12-12-2012 at 02:15 PM. |
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Do you mean that you renamed the Linux font to Times New Roman?! Or are you now using the Times New Roman font?
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