01-25-2016, 10:29 PM | #1 |
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Hindi Fonts in Kobo Aura H2O
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I have recently purchased Kobo Aura H2O. I want to read hindi ebooks in epub format on kobo. I have installed hindi fonts in fonts directory on kobo but still i'm not able to see anything in the e-books except junk characters. Please suggest and help me how can i make hindi fonts work on my ereader. Thanks in advance to all those who can please solve my problem. Thanks & Regards |
01-26-2016, 06:32 AM | #2 |
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1) Did you select the Hindi font via the font menu after opening the Hindi book?
2) Which Hindi font did you install? Is it a unicode font? I am asking because in the old days there were a lot of non-unicode Hindi fonts, each using different code points. 3) Are the Hindi books you tested supposed to work with unicode fonts? Did you try Hindi books from different sources? You could also try to rename the books to FILENAME.kepub.epub, but I think it should work with simple .epub too. Last edited by tshering; 01-26-2016 at 06:37 AM. |
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01-27-2016, 12:36 PM | #4 |
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Thanks for your responses friends.
@tshering - Please check the attached image. It has all the fonts that i have installed on my device. Kindly suggest some good and appropriate fonts if you think the ones i have installed are not correct. @meeera - Hey...yes i did follow the same procedure what you are suggesting here but no luck. Friends, i can share my e-pub screenshots as well if needed. |
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fontname.ttf (for regular font) fontname-Italic.ttf fontname-Bold.ttf fontname-BoldItalic.ttf Rename fonts and reset |
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01-27-2016, 02:18 PM | #6 |
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Do you see any of these many fonts listed, when you open the font settings? To access the font settings, you touch the bottom of the screen when a book is opened. Then you touch the symbol "Aa". In the dialogue field that will open, you can select from the available fonts ("Font Face"). Or did you already select one of your Hindi fonts and the book did nevertheless not show Hindi characters? I am asking just in case you did not see my question 1). When you see some of the Hindi fonts in the list of the font settings, they should work, even if italics and bold will not be used because of the specific font naming requirements of the reading software. Therefore, if you see any of the the fonts in the list, and after selecting it, no Hindi characters show, we would have to think about how your epubs are coded. Last edited by tshering; 01-27-2016 at 02:25 PM. |
01-28-2016, 12:29 AM | #7 |
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@tshering..
Mate i have done the font checking and some of the fonts are showing up in the list and when i have select them the epub font does change but does not think that they are the default or right fonts because the characters jumble up. So i'm wondering how can i read the hindi epubs on my kobo when i don't know what font epubs are using. @surquizu I know kobo supports .ttf and .otf fonts. But didn't know that naming convention also matters. Will surely try whatever you have suggested. Thanks for your suggestions and guidance. Last edited by xcuseme_1978; 01-28-2016 at 01:03 AM. |
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The two Hindi fonts that I have on my Aura HD are CDAC-GISTSurekh and CDAC-GISTYogesh. These are developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, a GOI undertaking and these are open source hence free to download. Just google them and you'll be up and running with reading Hindi epubs on your device.
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For my modified Charis SIL, the font name is Charis SIL Modified. So the font filenames would be... Charis SIL Compact-Regular.ttf Charis SIL Compact-Italic.ttf Charis SIL Compact-Bold.ttf Charis SIL Compact-BoldItalic.ttf You have to know the internal font name in order to be able to correctly name the files. |
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If the internal font name has spaces then the file name also should have spaces. And as for the regular font, I did name it properly. It's how I have it named on my H2O and it works perfectly.
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That doesn't follow the Kobo font naming rules as I understand them. Shouldn't they match each other? |
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