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Old 04-21-2020, 11:30 AM   #271
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Hi.

Yesterday I loaded a few fonts to test, but I didn't see all at the menu.

I tried with all kinds of books (purchased from Amazon and loaded with send to Kindle from windows).

Any tip?

Tks.
Try restarting after putting the fonts into the fonts folder.
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Old 04-21-2020, 11:49 AM   #272
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Try restarting after putting the fonts into the fonts folder.
I did that and nothing... Very strange.

And another strange thing is. 2 different books, apply 1 kind of font and different results on the screen. Wtf?!
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Old 04-21-2020, 12:27 PM   #273
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I did that and nothing... Very strange.

And another strange thing is. 2 different books, apply 1 kind of font and different results on the screen. Wtf?!
Could be that maybe there is missing font variants. It works best if each font has regular, bold, italic, and bolditalic. So 4 files per each font. If that is correct, there is likely something wrong with the fonts.
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Old 04-21-2020, 12:59 PM   #274
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I did that and nothing... Very strange.

And another strange thing is. 2 different books, apply 1 kind of font and different results on the screen. Wtf?!
Custom fonts don't work with mobi format (documents you send to your Kindle via wifi). They only work with KFX and AZW3.
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Old 04-21-2020, 01:16 PM   #275
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Could be that maybe there is missing font variants. It works best if each font has regular, bold, italic, and bolditalic. So 4 files per each font. If that is correct, there is likely something wrong with the fonts.
Thank you. I will take a look at the files.

I have some fonts with more variants (6 or more...)

And I have another font that the name is Heuristica and when show at the Kindle menu the name is displayed with strange characters.
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Old 04-21-2020, 01:20 PM   #276
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Custom fonts don't work with mobi format (documents you send to your Kindle via wifi). They only work with KFX and AZW3.
Thank you I know that.

When you send to kindle with both formats they works.

And I have AZW3 format bought from Amazon. The problem is not to apply the font to ebook, the problem is: the fonts I loaded doesn't show at the menu.
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Thank you I know that.

When you send to kindle with both formats they works.

And I have AZW3 format bought from Amazon. The problem is not to apply the font to ebook, the problem is: the fonts I loaded doesn't show at the menu.
Which fonts are those that don't show?
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Which fonts are those that don't show?
I will take a look again, since I removed all the custom fonts now and I will reload one by one.

Update the post when ready.

Thank you for your help.
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Old 04-22-2020, 01:34 PM   #279
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Which fonts are those that don't show?
Feedback:

Deleted all fonts / restarted Kindle / add 2 fonts each time - and now all set.

The only strange thing is the name of 1 font displayed like my screenshot in another post.
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Deleted all fonts / restarted Kindle / add 2 fonts each time - and now all set.

The only strange thing is the name of 1 font displayed like my screenshot in another post.
Unless you want English names, I wouldn't worry about it. The name can be changed in the metadata if you have a font editor. Looks like Heuristika came from a russian site as the letters are cyrilic and it does spell Heuristika without the silent H.
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Unless you want English names, I wouldn't worry about it. The name can be changed in the metadata if you have a font editor. Looks like Heuristika came from a russian site as the letters are cyrilic and it does spell Heuristika without the silent H.
I did that. I changed the name with an online font editor.

Now I'm looking for a SIMPLE way to add a little weight to a font. But all the softwares are too complex ....
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I also wanted to stretch it just a little, because it seems disproportionate (to my eyes)
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I did that. I changed the name with an online font editor.

Now I'm looking for a SIMPLE way to add a little weight to a font. But all the softwares are too complex ....
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I also wanted to stretch it just a little, because it seems disproportionate (to my eyes)
You have a PW4. Just use the Aa menu feature to add weight to the font. You don't need to add weight using a font editor.
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I have the 5.12.4 new Aa menu on the PW3
I have to say now that I have it for a while I don't just think it's poorer than before but horrible. It's also illogical for some settings that were global in Settings to be MOVED there, and if they are now per book, where are the global defaults set?

It's awkward, illogical, wasting space on the screen. I hate it. I suppose it's still impossible to go back a version?
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I have the 5.12.4 new Aa menu on the PW3
I have to say now that I have it for a while I don't just think it's poorer than before but horrible. It's also illogical for some settings that were global in Settings to be MOVED there, and if they are now per book, where are the global defaults set?

It's awkward, illogical, wasting space on the screen. I hate it. I suppose it's still impossible to go back a version?
Do you have excessive battery drain with 5.12.4?
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I have the 5.12.4 new Aa menu on the PW3
I have to say now that I have it for a while I don't just think it's poorer than before but horrible. It's also illogical for some settings that were global in Settings to be MOVED there, and if they are now per book, where are the global defaults set?

It's awkward, illogical, wasting space on the screen. I hate it. I suppose it's still impossible to go back a version?
The Aa options have always been ‘global’, not per book. So it is logical to include the other Reading Settings in the More panel as these are also global. It is better IMO, having them in one place, and not having to abandon the context of reading to access them, or remember which options were in the other location.

This is now consistent with Kindle app for iOS; I imagine it will come to Android and Fire as well at some point.

Page Refresh and Vocabulary Builder remain in Settings>Reading Settings for some reason.

That said, I wish you could ‘pin’ particular layout settings to a book, letting it be independent of global setting (whenever it changes).

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