FW 5.3.x - 5.7.x Fonts Hack

[doctoralvarez]

Right, old ones mixed up Now working all of them, Thanx

[doctoralvarez]

NiLuJE finally had installed and configured USBNetwork with my Mac, successfully seeing thru Terminal ping working, so I ssh root@192.168.15.244 but asks me password, clicking enter to blank password and its Permission denied, so already tried mario, fiona, fiona***, etc passwords generated with your kindletool info Option, also thru photon script and web page sven.de and of them working... also tried with etc/passwd and shadow files thru "John the ripper" and none password let me connect to my kindle PW3 on 5.8.1 what can I do? ::

[knc1]

Originally Posted by doctoralvarez

NiLuJE finally had installed and configured USBNetwork with my Mac, successfully seeing thru Terminal ping working, so I ssh root@192.168.15.244 but asks me password, clicking enter to blank password and its Permission denied, so already tried mario, fiona, fiona***, etc passwords generated with your kindletool info Option, also thru photon script and web page sven.de and of them working... also tried with etc/passwd and shadow files thru "John the ripper" and none password let me connect to my kindle PW3 on 5.8.1 what can I do? ::

You are making those attempts while running the 'main' operating system, they only work with the 'diags' operating system (your Kindle is a dual boot machine).

Use telnet (no password required in either system)
and/or
Follow the directions to install public key authentication
and/or
Follow the directions to change the /etc/passwd file entry for 'root' in the 'main' system.

[mixedbag]

Hello.

I was trying to replace some fonts using font override kual extension and i got success changing Cacellia condensed font to Merge.

I wanted to change more fonts like baskerville and palatino to my choice Liberation Sans and but somehow i am not able to change it.

I was using some template but it didnt change at all.

Could anybody please guide me how do i go about it or is is safe to change anymore fonts? Some warnings i came across the thread in the beginning.

[NiLuJe]

@mixedbag: Palatino & Baskerville should be safe, but you'll have to switch them manually, based on the fc-override.tpl template.

I'm fairly certain this has come up before in this very thread, if you want more pointers .

Basically: copy linkfonts/etc/fc-override.tpl to linkfonts/etc/conf.d/98-override-custom.conf
Edit linkfonts/etc/conf.d/98-override-custom.conf *with a *nix friendly editor*, replace %TO_OVERRIDE% by the family you want to override (i.e., Palatino), and replace %TO_USE% by the family you want to use. Everything has to match exactly, case-sensitive, spaces, everything.
You can see the exact name to use in the KUAL Font Override menu, since the family name might not always be consistent with what the font usually goes by.

Once that's done, refresh the cache and restart X via KUAL.

[mixedbag]

@NiLuje I tried the template way but sadly it does not work on pw2 9017 5.4.5 FW. For Cacelia, I had to take the font overide menu help and then choose serif. At the moment, I can only add fonts on 5.4.5 FW via serif and condensed form that too using font override menu option.

The manual way which i tried on fw 5.6.5 is not working on fw 5.4.5.

I have also renamed the baskerville and palatino manual files to 98-override-baskerville.conf and once 99-override-baskerville.conf. I have also used notepad++ to edit the template.

I have attached here for your perusal. Just one more thing to add, I am running Kaznelson hack of margins, dictionnaries and font size hack. Would that be interferring in it, I wonder?

Let me know how i can help myself.

[NiLuJe]

@mixedbag: Going to answer in reverse

* No issues w/ kaznelson's stuff, I used to run both in parallel, and those were the days, man!

* The various FW 5.4.x things you describe are very much expected, you're slightly less free to play around, and the default buttons have extra logic to take that into account (hence why the serif stuff via KUAL worked).

EDIT: You left the '%' characters on both ends of the family names in your configs, so, err, that also might explain why things are not working ^^.

[mixedbag]

U rock man ! It worked.

[jstm]

Hello

I have some questions
I'm in PW2 5.8.1 ( condenced already changed and working great)

It is safe change Opendyslexic Font?
When you copy linkfonts/etc/fc-override.tpl to linkfonts/etc/conf.d/98-override-custom.conf that means take the fc-override.tpl and copy it in conf.d with new name and extension 98-override-custom.conf an then edit with notepad++ ??

Thanks in advance

[NiLuJe]

@jstm: Yes to both questions .

You may want to double-check the actual family name of OpenDyslexic in the KUAL Font Overrides menu, because there might be a bit of sneakyness invovled here, but basically, yeah, same procedure as outlined in me previous answer to @mixedbag .

[rpgmaker]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@rpgmaker:

cf. linkfonts/etc/conf.avail/99-tweaks.conf

I installed this just now but I haven't been able to make my tweak work. I want to change the size proportions of the default Helvetica font. I tried to change the string under <test name="family" compare="eq"> to several other names, including Helvetica Neue LT or simply using the family name but still I haven't made it work.

This is what I first posted describing essentially what I want to accomplish:

Originally Posted by rpgmaker

Right now I'm using this font hack on my KPW2 (FW 5.4.5.1): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1431 it doesn't really changes the fonts as this one seems to do (if you want to) but it does change the relative size between each of the font sizes that you can select from the Aa menu, meaning that the jump in font size from each of the Aa options isn't as dramatic as it is in stock kindle and I can better fine tune the font size to my liking. Is there an option to do this using this hack? I'm considering updating to the new 5.7.X firmware at some point and I doubt that my old hack (which is labeled temporary in the post) will work.

I am now on 5.8.1 so this is why I need to use this hack instead.

[Barty]

@rpgmaker can you post your full xxx.conf file. Also, you copied the xxx.conf from linkfonts/etc/conf.avail/ to linkfonts/etc/conf.d/ right?

[rpgmaker]

Originally Posted by Barty

@rpgmaker can you post your full xxx.conf file. Also, you copied the xxx.conf from linkfonts/etc/conf.avail/ to linkfonts/etc/conf.d/ right?

No actually... I did not. But how exactly should the tweaks.conf identify the Helvetica font?

[Barty]

Originally Posted by rpgmaker

No actually... I did not. But how exactly should the tweaks.conf identify the Helvetica font?

"Helvetica Neue LT" (don't enter the quotes), but my firmware is older. BTW, you may want to test your font by overriding "Baskerville" first and when that works fine you can override Helevetica with it.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
	<match target="pattern">
		<test name="family" compare="eq">
			<string>Helvetica Neue LT</string>
		</test>
		<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
			<string>nameofyourfont</string>
		</edit>
	</match>
</fontconfig>

[rpgmaker]

Originally Posted by Barty

"Helvetica Neue LT" (don't enter the quotes), but my firmware is older. BTW, you may want to test your font by overriding "Baskerville" first and when that works fine you can override Helevetica with it.

Actually, I just want to increase Helvetica's size. Maybe it's not the prettiest font but to me it's easier on the eyes generally while keeping nice stroke "proportions" or whatever they're called. I did it with this:

<fontconfig>
	<!-- Make Helvetica 3% bigger -->
	<match target="font">
		<test name="family" compare="eq">
			<string>Helvetica Neue LT</string>
		</test>
		<!-- So tweak the matrix instead... -->
		<edit name="matrix" mode="assign">
			<times>
				<name>matrix</name>
				<matrix>
					<double>1.03</double>
					<double>0.0</double>
					<double>0.0</double>
					<double>1.03</double>
				</matrix>
			</times>
		</edit>
	</match>
</fontconfig>

I wonder though, what are the two <double>0.0</double> elements in the middle of the matrix for?