ePub custom Fonts on all Sonys

[Ozric]

Yeah, it's modifying the code where I run into problems. I have books that don't use the new font when I convert them in Calibre, whether I look at them on my Reader, Sigil, or Calibre's internal viewer. I use Sigil to edit the code by replacing any font-family reference I find with "Fontin," which causes the font to be used in Sigil and Calibre's internal viewer. But when I put the book on my Reader, it doesn't use Fontin for some reason.

I've been meaning to experiment some more, but I haven't had much time these days. I'm using an older version of Sigil, and maybe updating it would make a difference?

[Ozric]

It turns out I was never able to fix my problem books by hand-editing the code. Luckily, I discovered that if I first converted the ZIP files to LRF, then converted the LRFs to ePubs, the books end up using the new font and I ended up not having to hand-edit them at all.

[gregcd]

nice one

[vietchovui]

Originally Posted by atu1303

Big thanks to zelda-pinwheel, i was able to read vietnamese on PRS 700 now

I have a PRS-600. I really want to know what you did with your 700 to make it able to read books in vietnamese!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by vietchovui

I have a PRS-600. I really want to know what you did with your 700 to make it able to read books in vietnamese!

Probably put Vietnamese fonts in the fonts directory off of the route directory and pointed the CSS of the ePub to those fonts (as outlined someplace in this thread).

[vietchovui]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Probably put Vietnamese fonts in the fonts directory off of the route directory and pointed the CSS of the ePub to those fonts (as outlined someplace in this thread).

Thank you very much! One more question: How to embed customized font in fetched news epub file? for example for this RSS: http://rss.pcworld.com.vn/rss/default
Sorry for asking you so much. I don't know anything about CSS. Just copy and paste what you give me!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by vietchovui

Thank you very much! One more question: How to embed customized font in fetched news epub file? for example for this RSS: http://rss.pcworld.com.vn/rss/default
Sorry for asking you so much. I don't know anything about CSS. Just copy and paste what you give me!

What I do is open the ePub and edit the CSS to add in the code for the fonts. The fonts live in a directory called fonts in the root of my 505. And fonts is case specific.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin";
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin-Bold.ttf);
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin-Italic.ttf);
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin_Sans";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin_Sans_R_45b.otf);
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin_Sans";
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin_Sans_B_45b.otf);
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin_Sans";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin_Sans_I_45b.otf);
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin_Sans" ;
  font-weight: bold ;
  font-style: italic ;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin_Sans_BI_45b.otf) ;
}
body {
  font-family: "Fontin", serif;
  widows: 0;
  orphans: 0
}

[vietchovui]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What I do is open the ePub and edit the CSS to add in the code for the fonts. The fonts live in a directory called fonts in the root of my 505. And fonts is case specific....

Yep. I've tried but no chance. I think epub files fetched from different RSS sources that have different structures, depend on the HTML of the website. So that some words don't display correctly [?]. Please view the sceencap.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by vietchovui

Yep. I've tried but no chance. I think epub files fetched from different RSS sources that have different structures, depend on the HTML of the website. So that some words don't display correctly [?]. Please view the sceencap.

You'll just have to put the font family declaration into whatever CSS elements need it.

[Cactusgod]

So here's a question for you pros. Suppose I didn't like the regular version of the font, and I wanted to trick calibre into thinking that the bold version of the font was actually the regular version of the font to be used throughout the body of the text. Is that possible?

Thanks

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by Cactusgod

Suppose I didn't like the regular version of the font, and I wanted to trick calibre into thinking that the bold version of the font was actually the regular version of the font to be used throughout the body of the text.

Try the following additional CSS:

body {
	font-weight: bold;
}

You can also try an intrinsically heavy font. I don't know if you can use a bold weight font file as the "normal" font or not.

[latexsalesman]

You can make any font fit into any body text type. Here is an example:
@font-face {
font-family:"MinionPro";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src:url(res:///Data/fonts/MinionPro-MediumDisp.otf);
}
@font-face {
font-family:"MinionPro";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
src:url(res:///Data/fonts/MinionPro-SemiboldDisp.otf);
}
@font-face {
font-family:"MinionPro";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
src:url(res:///Data/fonts/MinionPro-MediumItDisp.otf);
}
@font-face {
font-family:"MinionPro";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
src:url(res:///Data/fonts/MinionPro-SemiboldIt.otf);
}

Minionpro medium display is used as my body text and other versions of it are used for bold, italic... and more.

ePub+calibre makes font changing fun and easy, I probably have tried over 100 font combination s now. I use Grandesign Neue Serif now for most of my books.

Cheers!!

[gregcd]

A heads up to followers of this thread:

Replace DEFAULT epub fonts! (PRS-505)
What it does
This hack for Sony Reader PRS-505 (possibly the newer models too, but you are on your own with them) allows you to use your custom fonts for all EPUB files without having to modify them - that is, it should work with any file you download, including protected EPUBs

Basically, you get all the benefits of ePub custom Fonts on 700, 505, 500, 300, 600 without having to modify each and every EPUB file.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66102

[daffy4u]

Zelda sent me here because I'm still having problems. I have PRSPlus installed my 505 if that makes a difference. Here's my stuff:

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin-Regular.ttf);
}

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin";
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin-Bold.ttf);
}

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin-Italic.ttf);
}

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fontin Sans";
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Fontin_Sans_BI.otf);
}

Edit: I realized I left the "body" part off the end but I added it and tried again with no luck.

body {
  font-family: "Fontin", serif;
}

[daffy4u]

Nevermind, I got it. When I added the body information, I left out a space.

I typed "body{" instead of "body {".