06-25-2010, 12:28 PM | #16 | |
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- open the epub file with zip tool and find the .css file in it - search all "font-family:" part and replace the font behind it with the font you have defined |
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06-25-2010, 12:49 PM | #17 |
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ctos, he is not talking about epub files I am afraid, looks like he is talking about RSS feeds, so not sure if you can open the epub and change the .css file. BTW, thank you so much for your original post for the .css file, I used that and compiled a Chinese epub book and took the microSD card into the B&N store and tried on their display unit, the Chinese book looked awesome (I still had to manually select one font I believe), the built in font itself looks much better than what I see on my Astak mentor which officially supports Chinese. I just ordered a wifi only Nook for $150 and feel it is a bargain. I like the nook's screen much better than other devices - I tried several Chinese brands before, really dont like the quality they are made with.
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06-26-2010, 06:02 AM | #18 |
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After I manually changed the stylesheet.css in the generated EPUB, it works fine. Here's what it looks in the Nook screen after I manually override the font-family.
The cause of the problem is in the STYLESHEET.CSS of the news EPUB generated by Calibre. The section ".articledescription" has been hardcoded with "font-family : SANS" and Calibre seems to ignore the EXTRA_CSS of news recipe where I used in order to replace the font-family of this particular section. It should be like this: Code:
.articledescription {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;} Related discussion: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=2204 Last edited by rty; 06-26-2010 at 06:25 AM. |
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Btw, do you guys have any Chinese news/magazine websites with RSS feed to recommend? Thanks. Last edited by rty; 06-26-2010 at 07:17 AM. |
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07-25-2010, 01:03 PM | #20 |
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ctos can you send me an example file as well? tried it on my nook and it did not work. thanks!
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08-03-2010, 09:10 AM | #21 |
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Hi ctos,
With your advises, I can read chinese ebooks, epub conversion via Calibre, with the correct fonts now. But, can you advise the approach to change the coding of some ebooks of mine which are coded originally in simplified chinese fonts, but I would much prefer to read in traditional chinese characters. If that would not be too troublesome, please advise how to switch from one coding to the Big 5 code. I'm at loss there. Thanks |
07-19-2011, 01:26 PM | #22 |
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I'm struggling with this.
I put: @font-face { font-family: "Trado"; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/font/trado.ttf); } @font-face { font-family: "Trado"; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/font/tradbdo.ttf); } body { font-family: "Trado", serif; } But it didn't work. |
07-19-2011, 04:25 PM | #23 |
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Chinese epub books work on Nook Touch without any rooting !!!
finally got it to work (I needed to run chinese books on my Nook STR)
I am using Calibre on mac so in Preferences->Common Options-> Look & Feel I've pasted this: Code:
@font-face { font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; src: url('res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf'); } @font-face { font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; src: url('res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf'); } @font-face { font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; src: url('res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf'); } @font-face { font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; src: url('res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf'); } body { margin-right: 8pt; font-family: 'DroidFont', serif; } there is a wizard icon in front of font sizes I've used that wizard and applied some kind of default and set Input character encoding to UTF-8 for some reason next I dropped epub files to my calibre library and bulk re-encoded them with my new setting and sent to Nook next opened my chinese books from nook and characters were all messed up, I entered menu where you manage font styles and sizes and checked Use Publisher Default and finally book is perfectly readable Thank you guys for your help, I was desperate and already bought a card to root my Nook. seems rooting will wait ))) |
07-22-2011, 09:17 AM | #24 |
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please can anyone help me with Arabic fonts? :S
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07-23-2011, 01:40 PM | #25 |
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07-25-2011, 09:23 AM | #26 |
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Library view, you mean when the books are just listed there? Not currently.
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07-25-2011, 09:24 AM | #27 |
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But I was thinking the same thing: the procedure must be the same. I can't imagine it working with Chinese and not Arabic.
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