The Grand Experiment!

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by kennyc

If it requires mods to the 505 firmware I don't have that installed. I'm strictly 'factory,' man.

Caliber let's you pull the font from your computer and apply it to the book. No device mod required.

[zelda_pinwheel]

thanks for all these detailed posts ; this is a very interesting thread and it's great following your experiment.

Originally Posted by daffy4u

This was JUST what I needed. I gave up reading Under the Dome on the 505 and finished it on the K2 because I couldn't deal with those little page turn buttons. I've added PRSCustomizer and all is well in page turn land! I can page forward with the joypad. Thanks again.

I'm just starting Already Dead which I downloaded as ePub but I converted it to LRF. I was having an issue with the font sizes (needed something between M and L), and I wanted to try changing the font. LRF seems to give me what I need. Now S is at the right size for me.

The Grand Experiment Continues!

you can customise the base font size for epubs with calibre as well ; you might find that by adding a size there you could get the result you want.

Originally Posted by daffy4u

Maybe. But this experiment is for me. Each of us most do our own Grand Experiment. This one will probably last until it's time for "Que, The Grand Experiment, Part Deux"!

i look forward to that one !

Originally Posted by daffy4u

I seem to have done something wrong. I used Calibre to convert Already Dead in ePub to LRF with the Fontin font at a base of 12 pts.

The page turns are soooo slooow. I took the book off the SD card and put it in the device memory but it's still slow. Also, it stays at the one font size (which works for me but still...). What did I do wrong?

i can't confirm since i read almost no lrf files and never convert to lrf myself, but i've heard that lrf with embedded fonts is notoriously S...L...O...W... you can embed fonts in epub files too though and even just add some css to your epub to tell it to use fonts stored in the memory of your device ; see this thread for detailed instructions (and screen caps !) if you haven't tried it. i use either fontin or gentium for all my epubs, now. and it's fast.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i can't confirm since i read almost no lrf files and never convert to lrf myself, but i've heard that lrf with embedded fonts is notoriously S...L...O...W... you can embed fonts in epub files too though and even just add some css to your epub to tell it to use fonts stored in the memory of your device ; see this thread for detailed instructions (and screen caps !) if you haven't tried it. i use either fontin or gentium for all my epubs, now. and it's fast.

Thanks for the new link. I've read a few threads and even tried the font thing with PRSPlus (switched from PRSCustomizer) but have had no luck. I'll give this one a try next!

JSWolf turned me on to Fontin and I now have on my K2. I'll give Gentium a looK as well.

[zelda_pinwheel]

i'm eager to hear what you think of that method. jswolf can give you plenty of tips about epub as well as different fonts. i like fontin a lot but it has a lot of "personality" so i find for some books gentium is a better fit because it's somewhat more discreet (although it's got its own style too). it's another free font, so you can try it out without any risk.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

I seem to have done something wrong. I used Calibre to convert Already Dead in ePub to LRF with the Fontin font at a base of 12 pts.

The page turns are soooo slooow. I took the book off the SD card and put it in the device memory but it's still slow. Also, it stays at the one font size (which works for me but still...). What did I do wrong?

Okay I just confirmed (as per PM) that the page turns are slow on mine as well with the converted LRF and that font. I suspect it may be the font that is at the core of it. It takes extra time to render as it is turning the page. I don't know though as I've not ever tried to use other fonts on mine.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Okay I just confirmed (as per PM) that the page turns are slow on mine as well with the converted LRF and that font. I suspect it may be the font that is at the core of it. It takes extra time to render as it is turning the page. I don't know though as I've not ever tried to use other fonts on mine.

Thanks again for your help.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

but i've heard that lrf with embedded fonts is notoriously S...L...O...W...

you've heard it cause it is true. This has been a complaint among Sony owners for several years now. Before ePub the solution was usually to create a PDF sized correctly with the fonts you wanted.

BOb

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i'm eager to hear what you think of that method. jswolf can give you plenty of tips about epub as well as different fonts. i like fontin a lot but it has a lot of "personality" so i find for some books gentium is a better fit because it's somewhat more discreet (although it's got its own style too). it's another free font, so you can try it out without any risk.

Nope, still not working.

@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);
}

[zelda_pinwheel]

hm. that's odd, everything looks ok to me (but it's almost 1 in the morning here so it's possible i'm missing something reeeeallly obvious...). i recommend you post directly in that thread, maybe there's a quirk related to 505s i don't know about.

[daffy4u]

I left out:

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

I added it in and still no font love.

[kennyc]

Use the default.

[daffy4u]

I don't like the default font.

[daffy4u]

I DID IT! A missing space was the culprit.

I had "body{" instead of "body {". Thanks all!

[kennyc]

Great!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

I seem to have done something wrong. I used Calibre to convert Already Dead in ePub to LRF with the Fontin font at a base of 12 pts.

The page turns are soooo slooow. I took the book off the SD card and put it in the device memory but it's still slow. Also, it stays at the one font size (which works for me but still...). What did I do wrong?

I would say nothing is wrong. LRF is a pig when it comes to embedded fonts. It's just slow. ePub is fine for embedding fonts as it's nice and fast. But LRF (with embedded fonts) just bogs down and makes reading not so nice.