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[geormes]

Originally Posted by FJames

For example, if my ebook reader has a function to select the font for the book I'm currently reading, but changing the selected font does nothing. that's a bug.

I'm certainly no expert, but can't a CSS be coded in a manner that causes just what you described?

[rashkae]

Originally Posted by Pistos

Indeed, I think some clarification is required here regarding the difference between (a) actually including the font data (which is what I think of when I hear "embedded font"), and (b) merely referring to the font name in CSS -- and which of these two are being referred to in any given post.

When it comes to e-books, as a rule, you don't reference fonts on the device, since there is no predictable way to assume what the device might or might not have. Embedded fonts referes to including font files right in the Epub, and specifying those fonts to be used for that book.

[filmo]

When I bought my KT months and 4+ updates ago I know it had software problems and missed some features but I was sure it would soon be fixed. Now software is what it should have been months ago and more improvements coming soon. Thank you.

It now starts from Kobo off to Home screen with book covers I'm not reading then updates contents to home with what I'm actually reading. Best yet. Just wish it didn't have to first stop at home what I'm not reading.

Everyone here complaining about 2 months to fix software never bought new computer with just released Vista.

[frankieGom]

Originally Posted by rashkae

When it comes to e-books, as a rule, you don't reference fonts on the device, since there is no predictable way to assume what the device might or might not have. Embedded fonts referes to including font files right in the Epub, and specifying those fonts to be used for that book.

Thanks for the clarification. Then, if the fonts are provided with the file, it makes sense that the reader should use them.

[readingglasses]

RE: FONTS AND EMBEDDING

Originally Posted by frankieGom

Thanks for the clarification. Then, if the fonts are provided with the file, it makes sense that the reader should use them.

Here goes.
In my experience,
if you make an epub with your fave' fonts included in the epub (e.g. the .TTF file) and reference those fonts with respect to their position in the epub (not on the device in the device's fonts folder), then kobo will still not use those fonts.
Somebody else said they got it working. I don't even believe them at this point. Maybe there is a way.
But the complaint around here is that embedded fonts don't work and there has been very little correction or instruction to resolve the problem, none of which has been confirmed to solve the problem anyway. So I don't think you can embed fonts as of yet.

To give an example. If you have a text book that uses different fonts for different sections of text (main text and perhaps a "details" or "example" section using different fonts) or some scifi/fantasy/post modern hipster novel that uses different fonts for different characters or for different content (a poem having several different fonts interrupting prose that has a single consistent font) the kobo (and I believe major other reader brands too) will simply NOT DISPLAY that styling. Everything will be a single font, the font the user chose for the whole text from the fonts stored on the flash memory of the reader.
And this is when all those special .TTF files have been included in the epub zipfile, increasing the size of your "ebook" to several times what it would be just being straight text.

Whereas, on an ebookreader like caliber or ADE or epubreader or some other, running on your PC, different fonts can be displayed within the same epub.

Idk to what extent this applies to pdf.

[molman]

I feel like you guys (and/or girls) would be better served moving all this embedded font discussion to another thread rather than adding to this one that was about the most recent firmware/desktop software update.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by geormes

Doesn't the Kobo have the following fonts:Amasis, Delima, Felbridge, Gill Sans, Rockwell, Avenir and Georgia as default??
The lack of other fonts like charis is NOT a bug!! You can add charis to Kobo if you wish.
This is a feature not a bug!!

I think you are misunderstanding. ePub allows font embedding. Charis SIL is the font most publishers embed in ePub when they embed fonts. The font-family code in the CSS that activates the embedded font is put in the body CSS style. It is supposed to work in ADE. It works in ADE for Wndows and MAC, it works in ADE on Sony and ADE on the nook. It doesn't work on the Kobo. If you put the font-family in the body CSS style, the embedded font will not display. And that means that most publisher ePub won't work as intended when they have embedded font(s).

[Pistos]

Originally Posted by robko

If they were going to do a cosmetic coverup I doubt they would have waited 2 months to do it. While I agree with your general point that it seems like the error checking routine was a little to aggressive, just doing a cosmetic coverup would lead to issues down the road that would kill their credibility worse than the current issue.

Again, not that I know anything for sure, but one possible scenario that comes to mind is the dev team and the marketing team going back and forth, with the marketing team saying "this forced reset stuff is *killing* our reputation! When will it be fixed??" and the dev team replying "soon, soon!" -- with that being repeated week after week after week. The devs could honestly have believed it would be "soon", but kept running into new issues that delayed the final delivery of the fix(es). Or they could have known it would take a long time, and just were not forthright with the marketing team or upper management.

*shrug* Pretty much no one outside of Kobo knows for sure, but it's fun to theorize.

[readingglasses]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I think you are misunderstanding. ePub allows font embedding. Charis SIL is the font most publishers embed in ePub when they embed fonts. The font-family code in the CSS that activates the embedded font is put in the body CSS style. It is supposed to work in ADE. It works in ADE for Wndows and MAC, it works in ADE on Sony and ADE on the nook. It doesn't work on the Kobo. If you put the font-family in the body CSS style, the embedded font will not display. And that means that most publisher ePub won't work as intended when they have embedded font(s).

FYI Check out the other thread on this issue, just started.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=149013

[ciruelo]

Hi everyone!
Since the latest update I'm having several weird issues with my Kobo Touch.
- First, I wanted to mention that I changed the language to Spanish and that could be the root of the problems I'm finding. Just thinking that the new languages may cause errors in the software and could need improvement and more development.
- One issue occurred when I sent the reader to Sleep and afterwards when I went back to the book I was reading, the screen became unresponsive. I could still use the physical button, but the screen kind of died... I turned it off and back on and the issue disappeared.
- Another thing that I'm noticing is that the books in my home screen don't correspond with the ones I've selected as favorites and it's neither showing the one I'm currently reading. It's a little disturbing, because if I go back to the home screen I have to look for the book I'm reading and the progress of my read is not saved...

Are these things happening to anyone of you guys??
Regards!!

[SameerH]

Hi there,

Changing languages should not cause any errors in the operation of the device.

Originally Posted by ciruelo

Hi everyone!
Since the latest update I'm having several weird issues with my Kobo Touch.
- First, I wanted to mention that I changed the language to Spanish and that could be the root of the problems I'm finding. Just thinking that the new languages may cause errors in the software and could need improvement and more development.
- One issue occurred when I sent the reader to Sleep and afterwards when I went back to the book I was reading, the screen became unresponsive. I could still use the physical button, but the screen kind of died... I turned it off and back on and the issue disappeared.

Seems strange. Please let us know if this happens again. It should have nothing to do with the language changes.

- Another thing that I'm noticing is that the books in my home screen don't correspond with the ones I've selected as favorites and it's neither showing the one I'm currently reading. It's a little disturbing, because if I go back to the home screen I have to look for the book I'm reading and the progress of my read is not saved...

Your shortlist doesn't always correspond directly to your home screen. Your home screen shows you books you have newly added/purchased/synced or have recently read. If you haven't recently read books on your Shortlist, they will not appear on the home screen. Hope that explains things. Let me know if you have any more questions.

[larrymohr]

Originally Posted by readingglasses

RE: FONTS AND EMBEDDING




Somebody else said they got it working. I don't even believe them at this point. Maybe there is a way.
But the complaint around here is that embedded fonts don't work and there has been very little correction or instruction to resolve the problem, none of which has been confirmed to solve the problem anyway. So I don't think you can embed fonts as of yet.

Here is an epub that I found in some thread here ( I don't remember which ) that seems to have embedded fonts. At least it shows several different fonts on my KT. The author's name in the epub is Stephan Smith so you could look for a user by that name.

P.s. The wingding font doesn't work on either my KT or ADE on WinXP, but the rest look OK.

LJ.

[MorganM]

Is the new desktop able to work on a Linux system?

[ciruelo]

Originally Posted by SameerH

Hi there,

Changing languages should not cause any errors in the operation of the device.



Seems strange. Please let us know if this happens again. It should have nothing to do with the language changes.



Your shortlist doesn't always correspond directly to your home screen. Your home screen shows you books you have newly added/purchased/synced or have recently read. If you haven't recently read books on your Shortlist, they will not appear on the home screen. Hope that explains things. Let me know if you have any more questions.

Hi SameerH and thank you for your reply on this.
The first problem is still a one time issue and I´m willing not to find that again in my Kobo. Anyway, if the problem repeats I´ll let you know about it as soon as it happens.

The second one is the one I don´t understand. My home screen has always shown the latest books I was reading or the ones that had been later synced with my reader. However, since the last update, it seems that there are some books somehow stuck in the home screen, and even the one I´m reading is not being displayed in the home screen.

Please let me know if you need more info on that!

[JBlyth]

Originally Posted by ciruelo

The second one is the one I don´t understand. My home screen has always shown the latest books I was reading or the ones that had been later synced with my reader. However, since the last update, it seems that there are some books somehow stuck in the home screen, and even the one I´m reading is not being displayed in the home screen.

Please let me know if you need more info on that!

I had had a similar problem with not being able to stop books appearing on the "Home" page. The only cure was to delete them from the I'm Read section of my Kobo website Library. I also noticed that the desktop application "read" flag kept on resetting even if I read books completely.

My feeling is the problem is with the desktop app and the library webpage, rather than the KT itself. (I previously posted a thread on this but no one responded)

Cheers
John