Touch Touch 1.9.4 is fontilicious - Page 5

zoran · 06-23-2011, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by taming

Buy her a Sony. Please.

I vote "nay". Japanese already had an earthquake.

Byron4120 · 06-23-2011, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Psyke

I haven't seen an issue yet with renaming it before or after; I did three books, one before and the two others after and haven't seen any ill effect as if yet. I also tried renaming the parsed image files, to include kepub in the name, but that didn't seem to do anything one way or another.

Between new fonts & kepub testing & a couple of syncs my desktop SW informed me that my touch was corrupt & do a factory reset

. So after doing that I have left things pretty much alone. I wonder what it was (Delete the unwanted font on touch, adding the fonts, couple of kepub files & deletion of these, life in general). Maybe 1.9.4 has a bunch of capability not fully implemented until they can nail some stability issues. But the new fonts & features did look nice on the side loaded KEPUB books

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Psyke · 06-23-2011, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Byron4120

Between new fonts & kepub testing & a couple of syncs my desktop SW informed me that my touch was corrupt & do a factory reset

. So after doing that I have left things pretty much alone. I wonder what it was (Delete the unwanted font on touch, adding the fonts, couple of kepub files & deletion of these, life in general). Maybe 1.9.4 has a bunch of capability not fully implemented until they can nail some stability issues. But the new fonts & features did look nice on the side loaded KEPUB books

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and I'm sure that's the reason why the reps are saying don't do it, because while it might help in some situations, it really could do bad things

. I am the type to mess around with configurations/forbidden files to see what does what; I learn best this way, and have gotten myself a pretty nice career because of it. But for the casual user, it's probably not wise to poke the bear

thepossum · 06-23-2011, 03:14 PM

I am currently reading a side-loaded book that was converted with Calibre, and the .kepub.epub trick let me choose a side-loaded font but wouldn't let me choose the font size, and the default size was waaaay too small. Renaming it back to plain .epub let me pick sizes again just fine though, but only with the two built-in fonts.

SameOldStory · 06-26-2011, 02:13 PM

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vaeditor · 06-26-2011, 03:13 PM

Okay, I've been experimenting with adding fonts and have found the Kobo Touch to be a bit quirky regarding which fonts it displays in the font selection menu. I've posted details and pics on my blog: http://atouchofkobo.wordpress.com. Enjoy.

m_bisson · 06-26-2011, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by vaeditor

Okay, I've been experimenting with adding fonts and have found the Kobo Touch to be a bit quirky regarding which fonts it displays in the font selection menu. I've posted details and pics on my blog: http://atouchofkobo.wordpress.com. Enjoy.

or just post the stuff here....

PeterT · 06-26-2011, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by m_bisson

or just post the stuff here....

Or better still, add it to the Wiki here :P

jackastor · 06-27-2011, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by vaeditor

Okay, I've been experimenting with adding fonts and have found the Kobo Touch to be a bit quirky regarding which fonts it displays in the font selection menu. I've posted details and pics on my blog: http://atouchofkobo.wordpress.com. Enjoy.

interesting.. What if you were to simply rename the fonts to dif names?
Ie: font 1, font 2 etc just to see if you can trick the kobo to accepting it?

regards

jack

EldRick · 06-27-2011, 07:15 PM

Really - the kepub format is a bad decision, and using the Adobe software to download and DRM books is a medium PIA.

I'll get my ebooks from Amazon/caliber, thanks.

jackastor · 06-27-2011, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by EldRick

Really - the kepub format is a bad decision, and using the Adobe software to download and DRM books is a medium PIA.

I'll get my ebooks from Amazon/caliber, thanks.

Interesting that you dont own the KOBO as you stated you were returning it. So why offer your two cents if you dont own the device any long?

Just curious?

wes101 · 06-29-2011, 02:49 PM

How do you remove the fonts that are in the updates to be able to see the fonts that you put on. I put on 7 dark black fonts because the other ones are to light and when i open the fonts face section it only shows the ones that came with the update.

EldRick · 06-29-2011, 02:59 PM

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So why offer your two cents if you dont own the device any long?

Because I've ordered a second one, based on their rapid cycle of improvements to the not-quite-ready initial software.

vaeditor · 06-29-2011, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jackastor

interesting.. What if you were to simply rename the fonts to dif names?
Ie: font 1, font 2 etc just to see if you can trick the kobo to accepting it?

regards

jack

That might be worth a shot. In all honesty, though, with the 1.9.5 update and its added fonts and expanded text options, adding my own fonts does not seem quite as necessary as before.

vaeditor · 06-29-2011, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by wes101

How do you remove the fonts that are in the updates to be able to see the fonts that you put on. I put on 7 dark black fonts because the other ones are to light and when i open the fonts face section it only shows the ones that came with the update.

On mine, the font selection menu shows more than the seven fonts provided by Kobo, so I'm not sure what's going on with yours. Did you make a directory called "fonts" and copy your fonts into it?

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06-23-2011, 03:14 PM	#64
thepossum Zealot Posts: 123 Karma: 20018 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Kobo	I am currently reading a side-loaded book that was converted with Calibre, and the .kepub.epub trick let me choose a side-loaded font but wouldn't let me choose the font size, and the default size was waaaay too small. Renaming it back to plain .epub let me pick sizes again just fine though, but only with the two built-in fonts.

06-26-2011, 02:13 PM	#65
SameOldStory My True Self Posts: 3,126 Karma: 66242098 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor, Galactic Center Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	deleted

06-26-2011, 03:13 PM	#66
vaeditor Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: VA Device: Kobo Touch, iPad	Okay, I've been experimenting with adding fonts and have found the Kobo Touch to be a bit quirky regarding which fonts it displays in the font selection menu. I've posted details and pics on my blog: http://atouchofkobo.wordpress.com. Enjoy.

06-27-2011, 07:15 PM	#70
EldRick Evangelist Posts: 470 Karma: 112801 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Aura H2O (i86, M96C, Mini&Glo, PRS-950, STR, K-Touch, K-DX, K-3)	Really - the kepub format is a bad decision, and using the Adobe software to download and DRM books is a medium PIA. I'll get my ebooks from Amazon/caliber, thanks.

06-29-2011, 02:49 PM	#72
wes101 Zealot Posts: 121 Karma: 42214 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: CANADA Device: Kobo touch	How do you remove the fonts that are in the updates to be able to see the fonts that you put on. I put on 7 dark black fonts because the other ones are to light and when i open the fonts face section it only shows the ones that came with the update.