12-20-2013, 09:35 PM | #1 |
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How to read Chinese on kobo glo
I downloaded the fonts simsun.ttf and mingliu.ttf onto the glo. but they do not show up on the Aa font menu. i restarted the ereader, same thing. i have chinese files in both epub and txt format, and neither can be read.
the fonts downloaded are 1kb each. is that too small? if so, then i might not have the right versions of the fonts. is there any way that you have to name them to get them to show on the fonts menu? i also downloaded 'unifont', 15.5MB which does show on the menu, reads Chinese, except it is unnatural looking, ugly and bolds in all the wrong places. anyone got any idea what i should do? also, if anyone knows a free and easy to use chinese ebook site, that'd be useful too (once i get the font sorted out). |
12-20-2013, 09:56 PM | #2 | |
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You might also want to check the code2000 font. Regards, David |
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12-21-2013, 04:34 AM | #3 | |
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12-21-2013, 02:09 PM | #4 |
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Hi,
Here are the links I use for Asian fonts: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Chi...aditional.html You can also use the "droid sans fallback (full)" font: https://github.com/android/platform_...ter/data/fonts Of course, you can also use, for testing purposes, some copyrighted fonts like Arial Unicode MS. Hope this helps. Francois |
12-30-2013, 02:30 AM | #5 | |
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do away with all that simsun/mingliu crap - there were so many words missing on those - i deleted these fonts. i found that they only work with epub files, and not txt files. is there a chinese font that works with txt files? not a big deal. |
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12-30-2013, 02:46 AM | #6 |
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by the way, what are some good sites to download chinese ebooks?
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