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In a Mobi Book Typo Line Gap does nothing. Line Gap doesn't seem to do anything in KF8 or Mobi. I did discover something else while testing. Fonts with numbers in their name wont work on a KF8 it must be all letters. It works fine on a mobi book but not a KF8. Last edited by Blossom; 02-18-2013 at 10:54 PM. |
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02-18-2013, 11:19 PM | #634 |
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Okay, I have played around with the Caecilia font that I extracted from the KPW. As noted already, the KPW itself modifies the Caecilia font using some behind the scenes style sheet giving it more weight and and increased line gap.
I have added weight to the font to increase its readability at smaller sizes and where the frontlight is used at higher levels. I am not using Font Creator since there is no version for the Mac, but have Fontographer and added 60 em to the fonts. I tried playing around with separately modifying the vertical and horizontal weights, but ended up with results that were unsightly and very hard to fix properly for the KPW. For technical details: -the extracted Caecilia has a WeightRatio = 7.21 -modified Caecilia has a WeightRatio = 5.78 -extracted bold Caecilia has a WeightRatio = 6.21 -modified Caecilia has a WeightRatio = 5.1 I have also modified some of the glyphs individually after weighting to improve readability at smaller sizes. For example, the "r" often touched the edges of other glyphs like "n", which could be confused with "m" I actually like the smaller line gap that resulted from the extracted Caecilia fonts so I did not have to change that at all. It was interesting with the line gap changes, that the heavier weighted Caecilia at size 3 shows just as many words as the built-in Caecilia at size 2. Legend for attached photos: Built-in Caecilia font that comes with PW at size 2 = Caecilia_Size2.png Extracted Caecilia font that is NOT altered in any way at size 2 = CaeciliaExtracted_Size2.png Modified Caecilia font at size 2 = CaeciliaMod_Size2.png Modified Caecilia font at size 3 = CaeciliaMod_Size3.png Last edited by slantybard; 02-18-2013 at 11:23 PM. |
02-18-2013, 11:51 PM | #635 |
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Does anyone know if font kerning is properly displayed on the KPW in AWZ3 formatted books? I tried searching for this answer, but did not find one and I don't want to spend time fixing up the kerning of my modified fonts if it is not supported.
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I'm going to say yes because every time Amazon's updates the default fonts they add more kern pairs.
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02-19-2013, 12:43 AM | #637 | |
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If that sounds easy enough, then I will go start working on that. Going to take a bit of work, as hiding all fonts is not the best solution for everybody. I myself have all extra fonts hidden except MT Chinese Surrogate - that one is quite nice as a builtin non-fancy san-serif font with bigger weight. |
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02-19-2013, 01:50 AM | #639 | |
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Below are two screenshots. The first is with no kerning set and the second is with manual kerning. In particular, I changed the "wr" and "ri" to have a kern value of 100 to see if it changed the word "wrinkled". I have restarted my KPW so many times today playing with the modified Caecilia font..... |
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02-19-2013, 06:55 PM | #644 |
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No, unfortunately not. The button requires to be already jailbroke. When I went through the config files yesterday, I found a loophole to possibly bypass the requirement of jailbreak. First quick test was unfortunately not successful, will keep digging deeper on that angle.
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