Instructions for patching firmware 4.20.14622

[zertyuiop]

Hello, is there any way to change the font size on the home screen, for example the percentage of reading a book?

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by zertyuiop

Hello, is there any way to change the font size on the home screen, for example the percentage of reading a book?

Settings -> Beta Features -> Font Scale

[zertyuiop]

Originally Posted by Semwize

Settings -> Beta Features -> Font Scale

This changes the size of all fonts, I need to slightly reduce the font on the home screen.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by zertyuiop

Hello, is there any way to change the font size on the home screen, for example the percentage of reading a book?

I don't think anyone has ever requested this before so there is no official patch. However, you're in luck because I do something similar on my own Forma.

The following patch should allow you to change font-size for either or both of the upper labels (x% read) and the lower labels (y HOURS TO GO) on your Forma Home screen. I'm not planning to add this to the official kobopatch pack so just add it to the .yaml file where you keep all your other nickel.yaml custom patches.

You'll need to experiment to get your ideal Replace: font-sizes.

[patch code removed due to lack of response from requester]

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by zertyuiop

This changes the size of all fonts, I need to slightly reduce the font on the home screen.

I have to ask, why? I can't think of what advantage this would give. The home screen is built around these font sizes and the words on them. Making them smaller isn't going to put more on the screen. I suppose that if you are also changing the font, tuning the size might be needed.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Semwize

Settings -> Beta Features -> Font Scale

I hadn't thought of this before, but this can be uses to make the font size smaller. Once the font scaling has been turned on, you can edit the config file and change the value for "LargePrintFontScale". Save the change, disconnect and restart the device and whatever was entered is used. I've tried 0.75 and it works. It does apply everywhere, not just the home screen. I can't think of a good use unless you had a lot of books with long titles. That would help to display the title without wrapping in the library list and elsewhere.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I have to ask, why? I can't think of what advantage this would give. The home screen is built around these font sizes and the words on them. Making them smaller isn't going to put more on the screen. I suppose that if you are also changing the font, tuning the size might be needed.

I can't answer on behalf of @zertyuiop but I find the font-sizes used in many parts of the GUI on both KA1/Forma to be far too big (e.g. dictionary & footnote pop-ups, book lists). It's not necessarily anything to do with fitting more on the screen (e.g. Home screen), aesthetically it just "looks all wrong" (personal opinion only ) so when I know how to "fix" it ... I do.

OTOH I'm sure for many others the large print on the big screen Kobos is a real plus point.

[zertyuiop]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I have to ask, why? I can't think of what advantage this would give. The home screen is built around these font sizes and the words on them. Making them smaller isn't going to put more on the screen. I suppose that if you are also changing the font, tuning the size might be needed.

I translated the reader into Russian, and just the percentage of what I read on the home screen does not appear completely and I have no idea how to make these labels shorter without changing the font size.
I do not really need Russian on the reader, but on Russian forums they often (very often) ask for Russian localization for the latest versions.

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by zertyuiop

I translated the reader into Russian, and just the percentage of what I read on the home screen does not appear completely and I have no idea how to make these labels shorter without changing the font size.

Just change the size in the translation file itself Patches are not needed, this is superfluous. Include private messages, I will explain.

[bajillioneer]

I've made sure ownership and permissions are set correctly but I keep getting denied. Patching as root also didn't work. What am I missing? Thanks for your time.

kobopatch.sh: line 17: ./bin/kobopatch-linux-64bit: Permission denied

[NiLuJe]

@bajillioneer:

Doing that from a noexec mountpoint? (e.g., /tmp might be noexec on any sane system).

[bajillioneer]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@bajillioneer:

Doing that from a noexec mountpoint? (e.g., /tmp might be noexec on any sane system).

Oh damn, I forgot about fstab. I recently added a new drive after one failed. Thanks.

[JSWolf]

I believe I may have found a problem witht he Advanced Font Control (or whatever it's called now) patch. It's supposed to work with OTF fonts and I just side loaded an OTF font and yes, you can appear to change the weight but the font won't change on screen when reading ePub.

The font is New York small. This is from Apple. It is available for free.
https://developer.apple.com/fonts

Edit: I found the problem. The fonts are set to use Postscript outlines and need to be changed to use Truetype outlines.

[NiLuJe]

@JSWolf:

Huh. Indeed, OTF w/ CFF outlines aren't tweakable in ePubs (but behave properly in KePubs).

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@JSWolf:

Huh. Indeed, OTF w/ CFF outlines aren't tweakable in ePubs (but behave properly in KePubs).

At least I was able to fix the problem easily enough.