08-11-2015, 02:26 AM | #46 | |
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08-11-2015, 02:59 AM | #47 |
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08-11-2015, 03:41 AM | #48 |
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I would prefer Bookerly if it were darker. As my eyes get older the darker fonts are more important.
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08-11-2015, 03:46 AM | #49 |
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08-11-2015, 03:59 AM | #50 |
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Yes, Helvetica is probably Kindle's darkest font, but I just prefer a serif font for reading books for some odd reason, it's more comfortable for me. Which is really odd since most web pages are sans serif fonts and I don't have a problem with them at all reading on the computer. It's just my (probably quirky) preference to use a serif font for reading books.
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08-11-2015, 04:02 AM | #51 | |
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08-11-2015, 04:29 AM | #52 |
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I'm downloading it now to transfer to my voyage. That was quick. The new paperwhite has only been out just over a month. I thought it would hold onto the new font feature for a while longer. But hey I'm not complaining.
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08-11-2015, 04:32 AM | #53 |
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08-11-2015, 05:01 AM | #54 |
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Hmm I still think I prefer Paletino but I'll try the new font for a while.
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08-11-2015, 05:05 AM | #55 | |
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08-11-2015, 07:28 AM | #56 |
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I have just updated my new KPW (7th gen) and loaded a sample custom ebook to check if ligatures are supported.
Nothing changed compared to the previous firmware version. Is there anything that I need to add to the CSS to enable the ligatures? I cannot see them neither with the custom embedded font nor any other font available by default on Kindle, including Bookerly. I tried adding the following lines: -webkit-font-feature-settings: "liga"; font-feature-settings: "liga"; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; and the ligatures work in Sigil, but once an epub is converted to azw3 and sent to Kindle, they do not work. Last edited by Hobb; 08-11-2015 at 07:52 AM. |
08-11-2015, 07:53 AM | #57 |
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None of the features work with sideloaded books.
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08-11-2015, 09:16 AM | #58 |
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It took me a couple of tries to find a book in my library that exhibits the advanced typesetting features. The first two I tried by deleting and re-downloading to my PW2 didn't show anything new despite being marked as Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled in the description.
The third I tried does show the new ragged right margin at larger font sizes and hyphenation. I looked in my Kindle's documents folder and found the working book with a 'kfx' extension instead of 'azw' or 'azw3'. Does this indicate a new format for Kindle books? |
08-11-2015, 09:21 AM | #59 |
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