Quick question: Kobo Nickel font fixed?

[the.Mtn.Man]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

it's available in old firmware files. Might not be legal to distribute but I doubt Kobo is going to come after you for downloading an old firmware update and getting to the font file. Especially since any computer can do it, with just basic computer skills of double clicking.

I tried that, but the fonts are apparently encrypted. They wouldn't show up in my Aura.

[the.Mtn.Man]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

For info. They are in recent firmware versions but back in Kobo's Rockwell days the font files weren't locked. I have a couple of different versions of Rockwell that I extracted from (I think) fw versions 1.9 and 2.0.

Rockwell also has the benefit of being considered as a built-in font, even if you sideload it, so Advanced TypeGenius works with it even if you haven't applied Patches.

I'll have to dig up an older firmware, then, and see if that works. Thanks for the tip.

Edit: Awesome! Worked perfectly! I extracted the font files from the 1.9.12 firmware (which I found thanks to murg's firmware thread), dropped them onto my Aura, and now I have Rockwell again and with advanced font settings. Thanks again!

Edit 2: You say you have a couple of different versions. What are the differences between them, if any?

[Joques]

I'm still holding out a slight hope. After all, nobody thought they'd bring back the readingstats/chapter diagram for sideloaded books either