Glo Font issue

[Lily7]

I have 2 font problems I am hoping you guys can help me with.

Problem #1:

When I go to change the font of a book I'm reading, the list of fonts repeats itself, so each font set is listed twice. I have not sideloaded any fonts so these are all the fonts that came on the Glo. This has only been since I upgraded to 2.5.1. The list of fonts looks like this:

Amasis
Avenir Next
Caecilia
Georgia
Gill Sans
Kobo Nickel
Malabar
Gothic
Amasis
Avenir Next
Caecilia
Georgia
Gill Sans
Kobo Nickel
Malabar
Gothic
Ryumin
OpenDyslexic

How do I get rid of the extra sets of fonts?

Problem #2:

In the "Advanced" area for each font (that has that capability) how do I reset them to the default? When I hit "Reset", it only puts them back to the setting I had before I changed it, not to a default for the font. I could swear I remembered it resetting each font to a default when I hit "reset" before I upgraded to the new firmware, but maybe I'm wrong. Either way, is there some way to get the fonts back to their default settings? Because on some of them I like the default better but I can't remember where the sliders were.

Thanks in advance!

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Lily7

I have 2 font problems I am hoping you guys can help me with.

Problem #1:

When I go to change the font of a book I'm reading, the list of fonts repeats itself, so each font set is listed twice.

The fonts are not really listed twice, it is just that there are two fonts more than will show on one page of the list. When you tap the down arrow at the bottom of the list, it scrolls the list down to the bottom to show the two extra fonts (Ryumin and OpenDyslexic), rather than paging down which would show only the two extra fonts and no others (which is what you might be expecting).

Problem #2:

In the "Advanced" area for each font (that has that capability) how do I reset them to the default? When I hit "Reset", it only puts them back to the setting I had before I changed it, not to a default for the font. I could swear I remembered it resetting each font to a default when I hit "reset" before I upgraded to the new firmware, but maybe I'm wrong. Either way, is there some way to get the fonts back to their default settings? Because on some of them I like the default better but I can't remember where the sliders were.

That is a change in the new firmware. The reset is now to the settings before you made the current adjustments, not to the original factory settings. As usual this change will probably please some and annoy others. I usually have the weight turned down, but after the firmware update I had to turn it up a bit to get back to my original settings. I think this is because they changed the range to allow heavier weights.

[Lily7]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

The fonts are not really listed twice, it is just that there are two fonts more than will show on one page of the list. When you tap the down arrow at the bottom of the list, it scrolls the list down to the bottom to show the two extra fonts (Ryumin and OpenDyslexic), rather than paging down which would show only the two extra fonts and no others (which is what you might be expecting).

HAHAHA Well, I feel dumb. Not sure why I didn't catch that.

That is a change in the new firmware. The reset is now to the settings before you made the current adjustments, not to the original factory settings. As usual this change will probably please some and annoy others. I usually have the weight turned down, but after the firmware update I had to turn it up a bit to get back to my original settings. I think this is because they changed the range to allow heavier weights.

I am glad it wasn't just in my head that it reset to a default before, but I have to admit this really upsets me. I feel like goldilocks, I've spent way more time than I care to admit trying to get the font to where I can read comfortably and being able to reset to a default would help a lot. Ugh. And honestly it makes less sense to me this way, because at least before you could remember where the sliders were in comparison to the default for different sharpness and weight settings. Now it's all over the place.

Is there some way I can force them all to reset to defaults? So I can at least memorize where the sliders are and play with the settings against that? Maybe a pinhole reset, anything?

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Lily7

Is there some way I can force them all to reset to defaults? So I can at least memorize where the sliders are and play with the settings against that? Maybe a pinhole reset, anything?

Try a pinhole and see. A factory reset definitely will, but of course you'd have to re-set all your settings and re-load all your books.

[Lily7]

Originally Posted by meeera

Try a pinhole and see. A factory reset definitely will, but of course you'd have to re-set all your settings and re-load all your books.

I am happy to report that a pinhole reset fixed the issue and put all the fonts back to their default setting. I'm so relieved the fix is simple.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Lily7

Is there some way I can force them all to reset to defaults? So I can at least memorize where the sliders are and play with the settings against that? Maybe a pinhole reset, anything?

If you connect the reader to your PC and look in the file ".kobo/Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf" you will see some settings for weight and sharpness similar to these (If you haven't changed from the default then they will not be there).

[Reading]
readingFontFamily=Georgia
readingFontSharpness\Georgia=@Variant(\0\0\0\x87<\xa3\xd7\n)
readingFontWeight\Georgia="@Variant(\0\0\0\x87=u\xc2\x8f)"

If you delete the lines for weight and sharpness, the defaults for the current firmware should be used (you might need to turn your reader off and on again to get the changes in the file to show).

The problem is that the defaults have probably changed sine the last firmware, this will only reset it to the default for the current firmware.

Edit: Ignore this if the pinhole reset works :-)