PRS+: Enhanced firmware for Sony Reader, Folders, Games & more

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by mudskipper

Excellent! I'm really looking forward to it. Looking more closely at PRS+, could I not achieve Folder browsing and Japanese text rendering entirely in PRS+ without having to wed PRS customiser and Book by Folder scripts? If that's the case I might as well get straight on to 1.1.3 whilst I await version 2.

Is this post (from earlier in this thread) any help to you?

[mudskipper]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Is this post (from earlier in this thread) any help to you?

Brilliant! Thanks very much for the pointer. There's no beating local knowledge

[Mark Nord]

As this is the PRS+ thread,

you can change system fonts even without flashing them!
At every startup - w/o connected USB - "prsp.sh" in /Data/database/system/PRSPlus is called.

There you can place some code like this:

cp /Data/<ANYFONT.ttf> /tmp
mount --bind /tmp/<ANYFONT.ttf> /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf

Replace <ANYFONT.ttf> with your font and place this font in the root of IM (AKA /Data/)

The font had to be prepared to meet some requirements, best with pepaks tool here

[mudskipper]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Is this post (from earlier in this thread) any help to you?

Now I seem to have a bit of a situation. I've installed PRS+ 1.1.3 and successfully flashed fonts and logos with PRS Customizer. But whereas before with Customizer + Books by Folder scripts Unicode plain-text rendered correctly, now I only have a choice between Latin 'greek' and Russian 'greek', IYSWIM. What have I overlooked?

Thanks for your patience,

Tony

[mudskipper]

Originally Posted by Mark Nord

As this is the PRS+ thread,

you can change system fonts even without flashing them!
At every startup - w/o connected USB - "prsp.sh" in /Data/database/system/PRSPlus is called.

There you can place some code like this:

cp /Data/<ANYFONT.ttf> /tmp
mount --bind /tmp/<ANYFONT.ttf> /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf

Replace <ANYFONT.ttf> with your font and place this font in the root of IM (AKA /Data/)

The font had to be prepared to meet some requirements, best with pepaks tool here

Having created various bindings it seems to make no difference. My Japanese plain text is coming up 'greek'. Can I confirm my understanding of the command as I can find no clear description of what the binding does. Does it mean that every attempted access to /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf will be redirected to /tmp/<ANYFONT.ttf>? I've redowngraded and reinstalled PRS+ without flashing fonts with PRS Customizer and I'm running the following to access three full fonts in the directory indicated:

mount --bind /Data/MYFONT/tt0003m_.ttf /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0003m_.ttf
mount --bind /Data/MYFONT/tt0011m_.ttf /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf
mount --bind /Data/MYFONT/tt0419m_.ttf /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0419m_.ttf

[kartu]

Create the prsp.sh file (and folders, if missing), they aren't present, since most users don't need them.
Regarding plain-text problem, I'm not sure what PRSCustomizer does in this case.

[mudskipper]

Originally Posted by kartu

Create the prsp.sh file (and folders, if missing), they aren't present, since most users don't need them.
Regarding plain-text problem, I'm not sure what PRSCustomizer does in this case.

When I run this in psrp.sh:

cp /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0003m_.ttf /Data/MYFONT
cp /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf /Data/MYFONT
cp /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0419m_.ttf /Data/MYFONT

to confirm which fonts are installed only tt0419m_ttf is copied to MYFONT which is kind of confusing. All three fonts must be present must they not?

[kartu]

Originally Posted by mudskipper

When I run this in psrp.sh:

cp /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0003m_.ttf /Data/MYFONT
cp /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf /Data/MYFONT
cp /opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0419m_.ttf /Data/MYFONT

to confirm which fonts are installed only tt0419m_ttf is copied to MYFONT which is kind of confusing. All three fonts must be present must they not?

If you put them there, they must.
Anyway, try:

cp -R /opt/sony/ebook/FONT /Data

to see, whatever is inside FONT folder

[mudskipper]

Originally Posted by kartu

If you put them there, they must.
Anyway, try:

cp -R /opt/sony/ebook/FONT /Data

to see, whatever is inside FONT folder

Yup! All fonts present and correct, named appropriately and should be ready to go. Does PRS+ use tt0011m_.ttf (Dutch etc) to render txt files?

[mudskipper]

Thanks all for your support, I've finally got to the bottom of things and can read plain text Japanese in PRS+. However, there are some oddities. When I used the fontmapper of alanine (of this parish) I was able to use three Japanese unicode fonts through his mount --bind, but when I tried the same thing via prsp.sh I had no joy at all. By flashing a small tt0011m_.ttf using PRS Customizer I am able to read Japanese without having to run alanine's scripts at every reboot.

Here's the really odd thing, I can only read the unicode txt file if I copy it directly to IM. If I use PRS+ copy and scan option the file seems to get corrupted in the process, and it is this corrupted file I have been trying to read by various means. Is there any reason why the file should become corrupted on copying?

Thanks again!

[kartu]

Does PRS+ use tt0011m_.ttf (Dutch etc) to render txt files?

I've mentioned the font name above, don't remember it. Anyway it's standard Sony code, not PRS+ using it.

Is there any reason why the file should become corrupted on copying?

Nope. Not at all. And quite a number of PRS+ users is intensively using this feature.

[mudskipper]

Originally Posted by kartu

I've mentioned the font name above, don't remember it. Anyway it's standard Sony code, not PRS+ using it.

Nope. Not at all. And quite a number of PRS+ users is intensively using this feature.

The problem is reproduceable. Might it be the particular unicode encoding that I'm using causing problems? I could send you a copy of my test file if you would like (it's out of copyright).

[kartu]

Might it be the particular unicode encoding that I'm using causing problems?

Only UTF-8 is supported.
If you had wrong encoding, it would work neither when copied from SD card, nor directly from internal memory.

[surquizu]

Hi,

Following the instructions that are in the web of Kartu , I created a PRS+1.1.3-A_installer that includes the latest applications and games created by various colleagues and icons of the previous hacks. If someone wants to download it from attached files:

[Scrivartha]

Originally Posted by kartu

Yes. You need to modify applicationStart.xml.

boolean key="0x41" do="doQuiet"
should be changed to
boolean key="0x41" do="doMenu"

It would also make sense to change (holding vol+ to jump to the root menu):

boolean key="0x41-hold" do="doMute"
to
boolean key="0x41-hold" do="doRoot"

You can achieve the same result by either creating custom PRS+ build or changing a single file using igorsk's universal flasher.

Ok, this may be a dumb question, but where IS applicationStart.xml? Someone gave me a bricked PRS-505 and I got it up and running but of course, the menu key, the zoom key, and the bookmark key are non-functional. I installed PRS+ to try to remap the keys but apparently the Menu key is not a default option. I am comfortable enough modifying an XML file, but can't seem to find the one in question. Does this mean I need to go through the steps of creating a custom build?