05-28-2020, 01:46 PM | #1 |
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Moon Reader Plus Font Issues
Hi. So I love Moon Reader, but there is one thing driving me absolutely insane! The fake italics. I've written the developer a suggestion, saying it'd be nice if we could add our own font faces to get rid of fake italics and bold.
The dev told me to 'use tts font family "name.ttf+name-bold.ttf+name-italic.ttf", select "name" as the font.' (Literally what they said.) I do not know what a "tts font family" is, but I've created a ttc font collection using Font Forge and put it in my folder and it didn't do anything (Moon Reader still used fake italics). Does somebody know what the dev is talking about? Can I get rid of these damn fake italics? |
05-28-2020, 02:12 PM | #2 |
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What is a fake italic, and how is it different from a non fake italic?
Any set of 4 correctly named variants of a fonts will give you normal, bold, italic and bold plus italic. If copied to a folder which moon can use Works for me with collections copied e.g. from kindle or from pc If they are "fake", then colour me fooled. Look fine to me. There are other threads explaining the naming convention, but it's the same convention as used elsewhere, so a simple copy just works. |
05-28-2020, 02:47 PM | #3 | |
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05-28-2020, 02:49 PM | #4 |
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I identify "fake italics" as those where an app just uses the Regular font then slants it a bit. In English it's most noticeable with a lower case 'f'. Typically a real italic 'f' has half the glyph as a descender below the baseline, whereas the fake italic is slanted but has no descender.
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05-28-2020, 04:29 PM | #5 | |
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See the differences between "young" and "Oof"? The fake (first one) looks like regular letter slanted. It's driving me insane. |
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05-28-2020, 05:38 PM | #6 | |
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BIG EDIT: I'm a moron. So I've looked around these forums and I've found that naming is key. Big thanks to Proximanova for opening my dumbass eyes. For all who have suffered like me, the answer is simple: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...93&postcount=5 |
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12-22-2020, 06:10 AM | #7 |
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Struggling with this also, but naming solution doesn't work for me.
I've tried specifying the font-family on <body> in CSS. (Which is apparently the proper way to do it; according to Amazon anyway) I've tried specifying the font: style, variant, weight and family of each on <p>, <i>/<em>, <b>/<strong>. None working with Moon+ Reader Pro. It only uses the "Regular" font. It doesn't even work when I attempt to use inline CSS (style=""). Nor even when I create a CSS class and use <whatever class="whatever;"> or <span style="whatever;">. Whereas, in Calibre and PocketBook, all these methods work. I should mention these fonts are embedded; there's no "fonts" folder on my Fire HD 8 (yet; want one, unsure where the 'proper' placement is. Main device memory root folder???). And yes, I've heard rumor that there are issues with fonts on Fire HD's (but I can't see how that could be the problem when they DO work in other apps; same device, same fonts). I've also seen mention about OS/2 type in the font files (apparently, for ADE, only "type 3" is acceptable or some such). Most of the source files were from "type 1"; I did change to "Automatic". And only this font-family is problematic out of over 50 fonts (I have not attempted any other font-family; yet). So it seems unlikely to me that it is anything to do with that. It is font family specific, whatever it is. Anybody got any ideas? I really like this app best of all (despite its myriad rendering pitfalls if you're trying to go too fancy; definitely not what this one's good for), but... this is not going to do it for me long-haul with this particular, seriously annoying issue. In a slightly related aside... I'm wondering, what is the proper method (which will work with whatever font you change to) to invoke the true bolditalic font? (When you are specifying the font-family strictly to the <body> tag, not the specific ones per <p>, <i>, etc.) In Calibre and Pocketbook it seems like it may be: <strong><i> <strong><em> (Know it's not: <b><i>) Would like to be sure. Thanks. |
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