PRS-650 PRS 650 Firmware and userStyle.css

[jackie_w]

@oddman5,

What do you have in your userStyle.css @font-face statements at the moment? Your previous post suggests you want both serif and sans-serif text to display as Arial on your reader. If so, are your @font-faces something like:

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

If I have guessed correctly it should be possible to edit this to be a bit more general so it will automatically direct generic statements in any book's css (like font-family:serif or font-family:sans-serif) to your chosen font.

In each of your 4 @font-faces, try replacing the red bit above so that it looks like the blue bit below:

@font-face {font-family: "Arial", serif, sans-serif; font-weight: ... etc ...

If I've guessed wrong, post your current userStyle.css and what you're trying to achieve.

[oddman5]

Jackie_w

This is my userstyle.css file on the reader:
@font-face {
font-family: -ua-default;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/Arial/arial.ttf);
}

@font-face {
font-family: -ua-default;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/Arial/arialbd.ttf);
}

@font-face {
font-family: -ua-default;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/Arial/ariali.ttf);
}

@font-face {
font-family: -ua-default;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/Arial/arialbi.ttf);
}

@font-face {
font-family: "sans-serif1";
src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0003m_.ttf);
}

h1 {
font-family: sans-serif1, sans-serif;
}

How exactly do you think I should change it?
(I want Arial to be the the default font. It is now on most books, but not all)

Regards

[jackie_w]

@oddman5,

Try the following:

1. For each occurrence, in the first 4 @font-faces, of
   

   font-family: -ua-default;

   replace with
   

   font-family: "Arial", serif, sans-serif;

2. Unless you particularly want your level-1 headings (<h1>) styled with the font tt0003m_.ttf rather than Arial you can remove the last 2 items
   

   @font-face {
   font-family: "sans-serif1";
   src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0003m_.ttf);
   }
   
   h1 {
   font-family: sans-serif1, sans-serif;
   }

3. Add this extra item after the final @font-face
   

   body {font-family: "Arial", serif, sans-serif;}

It's a bit "belt and braces" but this userStyle.css may handle some epubs that the original didn't.

If it still doesn't work, I'd need to see some of the particular epub which doesn't work.

[oddman5]

@jackie_w

Looks like this did the trick.
Thanks a lot, Jackie!

[Loose_Appeal]

Can you post the correct code?

[jackie_w]

@Loose_Appeal,

What are you trying to achieve? The correct code depends on which font you want to use as your default serif font and which font as your default sans-serif font.

Oddman5 wanted to use Arial (a sans-serif font) for both. Personally I prefer to keep serif and sans-serif as two different fonts.

[oddman5]

@jackie_w

Jackie, when going through some of my books, it seems that now the books that was showing as Arial before, is now back to Sony default, while the ones that didn't, now shows up as Arial. Strange. Guess i have to customize them with Calibre before I send them to the prs 650. Could you show us your userstyle.css, so I can compare. (It doesn't have to be Arial)

[oddman5]

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[SirNose]

Does anyone know if these firmware flash files are available for Macs?

I've downloaded the file but they seem to be windows files and my poor ol' mac doesn't know what to do with them...

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by oddman5

@jackie_w
Could you show us your userstyle.css, so I can compare. (It doesn't have to be Arial)

Here it is. (I had to rename it to have a .txt extension to get it to attach here).

I need to add that it is not possible to create a userStyle.css which is guaranteed to automatically "correct" all epubs. However, I don't think there is an epub which cannot be fixed with the correct "tweak", as long as the epub doesn't have DRM.

I'd be happy to have a closer look at one of your non-working epubs, if you want to post it here. If that's not possible for copyright reasons, you can always send me a PM with an email address or a link to the epub.

[Francois_4256]

Originally Posted by SirNose

Does anyone know if these firmware flash files are available for Macs?

I've downloaded the file but they seem to be windows files and my poor ol' mac doesn't know what to do with them...

I've search hi and lo for one, saw a brief reference to one at the Russian site, but have resorted to installing VMware and Windows 7 on my MBP and have successfully flashed my reader and am now using Bookman old Style, one of my favorite fonts.

Until the universal flasher is developed for the PRS650, that may be the only thing you can do. There has to be more than two people trying to flash their readers who have MACs

Francois

[elcreative]

My Mac is set up with Boot Camp and Win 7, use either as PC or via Parallels virtual PC... essentially same solution as Francois_4256. It's so easy using PC stuff on an Intel Mac now that I just take it for granted... and am delighted I'm not doing it the other way round...

Originally Posted by SirNose

Does anyone know if these firmware flash files are available for Macs?

I've downloaded the file but they seem to be windows files and my poor ol' mac doesn't know what to do with them...

[SirNose]

Cheers Francois & El, I'll have to investigate this option i spose... seems a shame as there are such other good Mac ebook tools and resources.

[kosiu]

Many thanks to all of you for posting your observations and guidance!

After two days of fiddling with the css set-up to get polish fonts I finally got it working!

But this time was not wasted as I've learned a lot about Calibe conversion function, css formatiing and epub structure... Now I can better organize my library in Calibre...

[goaspy]

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