Font, ScreenSaver & USBNetwork Hacks for Kindle 2.x, 3.x & 4.x - Page 71

NiLuJe · 11-02-2010, 02:31 PM

@tat2man45: Like daffy4u said, check the wiki. (You'll have to at least put the custom folders back after a factory reset, so, yeah, follow the wiki).

@warl0rd: Yep, no idea why some K3 choke on a few fonts... can't reproduce this on mine ;/. And, yeah, *never* restart your Kindle with a custom .bin, at best it won't work, at worst it'll do BadThings.

Tiersten · 11-02-2010, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daffy4u

Thanks, I've also updated the Kindle Serial Numbers wiki page to reflect your suggestion.

Amazon state that it is generally the B006 for US and B00A for Europe if you've getting a 3G+WiFi unit but with the additional caveat

"We automatically ship your Kindle with the best built-in wireless card based on the shipping country you select during checkout. If your country is not listed above, please use the serial number instructions to determine which download to use."

NiLuJe · 11-02-2010, 05:52 PM

@Tiersten: Yeah, I do have a B006, shipped to Europe, for example

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avidworm · 11-05-2010, 02:11 PM

hi

quick question (sorry if stupid)

do i need to copy the source folder to root of kindle as well?

NiLuJe · 11-05-2010, 03:15 PM

@avidworm: No.

avidworm · 11-05-2010, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@avidworm: No.

thanks

i forget that install files need not be large in linux based systems!

KarlSchroeder · 11-06-2010, 05:16 PM

I just performed the font hack on my Kindle 3, because I have a book I bought from the Kindle store whose font is very bad (some letters are cut up, eg. the narrowest parts of the lines disappear). It's clearly not one of the default fonts, but I want to be able to read this book, since I paid for it. So, I installed the font hack, but how do I change the default fonts in a given book? That's what I want to know, but none of the documentation I've seen on this hack actually says how to do that, though there are pictures that indicate that it must be possible. I would have thought that the Aa menu would be the place to do this, but it's not.

I can see that the fonts in the menus have changed, but who cares about the fonts in the menus? The only ones that matter are the ones in the books. There's an extremely vague statement in the docs about "copying the fonts you want to the linkfonts/fonts directory" but what fonts? And from where? Since the font hack install file clearly changes the default menu fonts, it's clearly installing new fonts--so what are these other "new fonts" that the docs say you should copy over yourself? How do you select fonts on a "per book" basis? Can you? And how do I apply the font I want to a book that seems to ship with nonstandard fonts?

NiLuJe · 11-06-2010, 06:29 PM

@KarlSchroeder: You must be referring to a Topaz book. There is absolutely no way to change the font(s) of these books without external format-shifting. (And I wouldn't really recommend doing this, given the nature of the Topaz format, it's slightly more tedious to do than usual, and you'll likely end up with something worse unless you know what you're doing/how to fix it).

Fortunately, only a handful of books are provided by Amazon in this (potentially horrible) format.

NiLuJe · 11-06-2010, 11:06 PM

On a sidenote, here's a potential good news for those with fussy K3 & fonts:

I'm working on another slightly crazy idea that may help with this

.

bartveld · 11-07-2010, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

On a sidenote, here's a potential good news for those with fussy K3 & fonts:

I'm working on another slightly crazy idea that may help with this

.

??? Now that is a tantalizing comment! Could you give us an inkling of what you are working on?

ryeungo · 11-07-2010, 06:25 AM

Hi everyone

Just successfully applied the jb and font hack by NiLuJe --great work!

Now comes a question: Can I restore some of the default fonts? For example I'd like to keep the original fonts for the Menu and browser. Where can I locate the default fonts to replace the ones in the linkfonts folder??

Thanks heaps!

NiLuJe · 11-07-2010, 07:28 AM

@bartveld: Basically, by overriding the FreeType lib used by the Kindle with a custom one, built from a very recent FT snapshot. Turns out Amazon uses an oooooooooold version of FT that's probably patched all to hell (No way to verify that, unfortunately, as it's not part of the source code packages ;/).

Hopefully that'll help with those K3, but the issue may lie elsewhere, so we'll see...

@ryeungo: They're backed up in linkfonts/backups. Caecilia is the Serif family (books), and Helvetica the Sans family (menu). Note that on a K3, by default, the hack doesn't touch the browser fonts.

ryeungo · 11-07-2010, 08:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@ryeungo: They're backed up in linkfonts/backups. Caecilia is the Serif family (books), and Helvetica the Sans family (menu). Note that on a K3, by default, the hack doesn't touch the browser fonts.

thanks mate!!
so i'll just copy and paste the files from the backup folder to the fonts folder?
sorry to be such a noob

NiLuJe · 11-07-2010, 11:26 AM

@ryeungo: You'll have to rename them to follow the usual naming scheme, but, after that, yeah, that's it.

NiLuJe · 11-11-2010, 12:08 AM

And here we go for a big bunches of updates!

Bump ScreenSavers to v0.16.N!
* Updated sort binary (updated coreutils & TC)
* Same few fixes as the fonts hack (update trap, usb watchdog, cleanups, mount checks).

Bump Fonts to v4.0.N!
* Tweaked the usb-watchodg (Way cleaner handling of false-positives & race conditions)
* Don't trap duokan & font_pkg update files.
* Updated fc-scan binary (updated fontconfig & TC, slightly more dynamically linked)
* Multiples fixes to the browser fonts handling (proper config generation, and make sure the cache gets generated in the right place)
* Way saner checks to avoid applying the hack twice.
* A few code cleanups.
* And the big new feature: You can now override the freetype library used. Which means you can get, for example, FT's autohinter (like fw 2.x) on a K3

. Check the first post for details

.

Bump USBNetwork to v0.29.N!
* Updated all the binaries (Updated TC)
* The busybox binary now includes the httpd applet
* Passwordless SSH login no matter what when connecting from localhost
* A few code cleanups
* Properly fix the switch back to usbms when using the autoboot feature, and properly fix nearly all instances of 'nothing is exported over usb' weirdness. (Just don't update/boot with USB plugged in).

I also updated the x-tc archive accordingly

.

In each case, the changes are fairly consequent, so, to avoid any weird issues, I recommend doing a full restart after updating all your hacks

.

@mods: Thanks for the thread title update

.

11-02-2010, 05:52 PM	#1053
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	@Tiersten: Yeah, I do have a B006, shipped to Europe, for example . Last edited by NiLuJe; 11-02-2010 at 07:10 PM.

11-05-2010, 02:11 PM	#1054
avidworm Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: kindle3	hi quick question (sorry if stupid) do i need to copy the source folder to root of kindle as well? Last edited by avidworm; 11-05-2010 at 02:14 PM.

11-06-2010, 05:16 PM	#1057
KarlSchroeder Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: iRex DR1000s	Changing fonts WITHIN a book? I just performed the font hack on my Kindle 3, because I have a book I bought from the Kindle store whose font is very bad (some letters are cut up, eg. the narrowest parts of the lines disappear). It's clearly not one of the default fonts, but I want to be able to read this book, since I paid for it. So, I installed the font hack, but how do I change the default fonts in a given book? That's what I want to know, but none of the documentation I've seen on this hack actually says how to do that, though there are pictures that indicate that it must be possible. I would have thought that the Aa menu would be the place to do this, but it's not. I can see that the fonts in the menus have changed, but who cares about the fonts in the menus? The only ones that matter are the ones in the books. There's an extremely vague statement in the docs about "copying the fonts you want to the linkfonts/fonts directory" but what fonts? And from where? Since the font hack install file clearly changes the default menu fonts, it's clearly installing new fonts--so what are these other "new fonts" that the docs say you should copy over yourself? How do you select fonts on a "per book" basis? Can you? And how do I apply the font I want to a book that seems to ship with nonstandard fonts?

11-11-2010, 12:08 AM	#1065
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	And here we go for a big bunches of updates! Bump ScreenSavers to v0.16.N! * Updated sort binary (updated coreutils & TC) * Same few fixes as the fonts hack (update trap, usb watchdog, cleanups, mount checks). Bump Fonts to v4.0.N! * Tweaked the usb-watchodg (Way cleaner handling of false-positives & race conditions) * Don't trap duokan & font_pkg update files. * Updated fc-scan binary (updated fontconfig & TC, slightly more dynamically linked) * Multiples fixes to the browser fonts handling (proper config generation, and make sure the cache gets generated in the right place) * Way saner checks to avoid applying the hack twice. * A few code cleanups. * And the big new feature: You can now override the freetype library used. Which means you can get, for example, FT's autohinter (like fw 2.x) on a K3 . Check the first post for details . Bump USBNetwork to v0.29.N! * Updated all the binaries (Updated TC) * The busybox binary now includes the httpd applet * Passwordless SSH login no matter what when connecting from localhost * A few code cleanups * Properly fix the switch back to usbms when using the autoboot feature, and properly fix nearly all instances of 'nothing is exported over usb' weirdness. (Just don't update/boot with USB plugged in). I also updated the x-tc archive accordingly . In each case, the changes are fairly consequent, so, to avoid any weird issues, I recommend doing a full restart after updating all your hacks . @mods: Thanks for the thread title update . Last edited by NiLuJe; 11-13-2010 at 04:00 PM.

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11-02-2010, 02:31 PM	#1051
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	@tat2man45: Like daffy4u said, check the wiki. (You'll have to at least put the custom folders back after a factory reset, so, yeah, follow the wiki). @warl0rd: Yep, no idea why some K3 choke on a few fonts... can't reproduce this on mine ;/. And, yeah, never restart your Kindle with a custom .bin, at best it won't work, at worst it'll do BadThings.

11-05-2010, 03:15 PM	#1055
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	@avidworm: No.

11-06-2010, 06:29 PM	#1058
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	@KarlSchroeder: You must be referring to a Topaz book. There is absolutely no way to change the font(s) of these books without external format-shifting. (And I wouldn't really recommend doing this, given the nature of the Topaz format, it's slightly more tedious to do than usual, and you'll likely end up with something worse unless you know what you're doing/how to fix it). Fortunately, only a handful of books are provided by Amazon in this (potentially horrible) format.

11-06-2010, 11:06 PM	#1059
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	On a sidenote, here's a potential good news for those with fussy K3 & fonts: I'm working on another slightly crazy idea that may help with this .

11-07-2010, 06:25 AM	#1061
ryeungo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: kindle 3	Hi everyone Just successfully applied the jb and font hack by NiLuJe --great work! Now comes a question: Can I restore some of the default fonts? For example I'd like to keep the original fonts for the Menu and browser. Where can I locate the default fonts to replace the ones in the linkfonts folder?? Thanks heaps!

11-07-2010, 07:28 AM	#1062
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	@bartveld: Basically, by overriding the FreeType lib used by the Kindle with a custom one, built from a very recent FT snapshot. Turns out Amazon uses an oooooooooold version of FT that's probably patched all to hell (No way to verify that, unfortunately, as it's not part of the source code packages ;/). Hopefully that'll help with those K3, but the issue may lie elsewhere, so we'll see... @ryeungo: They're backed up in linkfonts/backups. Caecilia is the Serif family (books), and Helvetica the Sans family (menu). Note that on a K3, by default, the hack doesn't touch the browser fonts.

11-07-2010, 11:26 AM	#1064
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	@ryeungo: You'll have to rename them to follow the usual naming scheme, but, after that, yeah, that's it.