Libra 2 Sideloading files written in Greek

[Drou]

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I've tried a couple of times to create an epub with Greek text and sideload it to my Kobo Libra 2. Both times it was just a basic word document that I copy pasted the text into (nothing copyrighted I'd like to add!) and then uploaded to calibre and converted.

When I pasted, I chose to keep text only and the font on Word was the default calibri. The epubs all turn out ok, they look great when I open using calibre ereader or ADE. The problem comes when I sideload to the Kobo (have tried as epub and kepub). The text is still in Greek but not in the original font and any spaces, paragraphs etc all seem to get lost. Basically, it is not easy to read at all. Both times I've ended up just converting the file to a pdf but this is not ideal as this makes the font size too small. I've searched the Kobo store and they do sell books in Greek - I've downloaded some samples and unsurprisingly had no issues with the text being in Greek.

Does anyone know whether I need to use a specific font compatible with Kobo and which one? Do I need to download a font to my Kobo maybe? And how do I do this please? Thanks for any help!

P.S. Calibre is really not intuitive for me at all and I know nothing about coding, programming or creating scripts whatsoever - if the answer involves any of these things please imagine I'm an 80 year old luddite (even though I'm not lol) and explain it to me step by step as you would to them XD

[Quoth]

Embed the font and use Publisher option on Kobo.
The Font licence is only an issue if you are distributing (even just giving it away).

[Drou]

Thanks for your answer. Embedding fonts is easy enough for me to do, but what do you mean by use the Publisher option on Kobo?

[Drou]

I just tried with embedding fonts only (in both the original word doc and then again converting in calibre) and that did the trick, thanks very much! My question above still stands but more out of curiosity now so if you don't have time to reply no problem!

[Aleron Ives]

When you're reading a book, the font menu allows you to change the font. If you embed a font in the book and then override the font using the reading menu, your embedded font won't do any good. Selecting the publisher's font in the font menu means "use the fonts embedded in the book".

[Drou]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

When you're reading a book, the font menu allows you to change the font. If you embed a font in the book and then override the font using the reading menu, your embedded font won't do any good. Selecting the publisher's font in the font menu means "use the fonts embedded in the book".

Lol thank you, I was having a dim moment and didn't realise they meant just use default publisher font, thought there was some setting I'd never come across on my Kobo akin to Android's developer options