12-22-2010, 12:47 AM | #1 |
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Haodoo Chinese Ebooks on KOBO
Hi,
Just in case there is anyone who is having problems getting Haodoo Chinese Ebooks on the KOBO, these are steps to take to get them onto the KOBO. First, you need Calibre to do conversion. Install Calibre. Then go to this site to download Haodoo plugin for Calibre, instructions on how to install the plugin are also on the site: http://kanru.github.com/calibre-haodoo/ You will also need winzip or winrar program to open the epub files. Next, go to Haodoo to download the ebooks in PDB format. Add these PDB ebooks into Calibre library. Then convert these PDB into the EPUB format. And then locate the EPUB format ebooks by right clicking on the ebook on calibre library and selecting info. Open the EPUB format book with winrar or winzip program. Add and replace files in the EPUB in winrar or winzip program with the two files below - css file and font file - can be downloaded via the links below. Then transfer the EPUB book to your KOBO via Calibre. DO note that title of the EPUB book on KOBO will not display chinese, so remember to change the title of your book to English before conversion. Would be nice if KOBO could display chinese fonts without having to tweak so many things. stylesheet.css DroidSansFallback.ttf |
12-22-2010, 01:01 AM | #2 |
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Try out if Sigil helps you even more.
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04-27-2011, 10:26 PM | #3 |
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It won't work using CanCan's method
Hello CanCan,
If you are reading the forum, would you please tell me that why I can not make the Haodu epub work on my new KOBO. It is perfectly fine on Calibre (I mean the software picked the ttf font, but KOBO shows all ???. Thanks! |
04-29-2011, 11:39 PM | #4 |
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I had similar problem with Cyrillic fonts on kobo, and they are present on the system! I can open text file with utf8 Cyrillic text and everything is fine, but e-pubs need to be modified to display non-Latin text.
The culprit of this problem is custom .kobo/adobe/pxf/userStyle.css file that nickel/adobe plugin use to overwrite font selection for the whole document body: Code:
body { font: serif; } Code:
p,div,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { font-family: "MyEmbeddedFontName"; } This is a rather annoying problem, I would say a design bug in the nickel. |
02-02-2012, 09:35 PM | #5 |
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Hi cancan, my wife got a Kobo eReader about a year ago and I'm trying to get some Chinese books onto it following your instructions - so far, no luck. When I went to the link you suggested to download those 2 files (Stylesheet & ttf file), they are no longer there. I understand your post was a while back...any chance you can point me to the right direction. So far, I can get the chinese book to read properly on Calibre, but when I try to move the file to Kobo, it just display ?????? I think I'm only missing the last two files for the conversion on Kobo. Will be very much appreciate if you or someone can help. Thanks!
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02-02-2012, 09:41 PM | #6 |
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I've the same problem.....did you get yours resolved?
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02-03-2012, 08:27 AM | #7 |
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Why don't you try something like this http://atouchofkobo.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/260/ , for the fonts? I've asked the blog writer to do that test for me, before buying my KT... and now my wife is happily reading Japanese!
I'm also pretty sure that font I've suggested supports Chinese as well. |
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