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Old 04-17-2020, 07:49 AM   #1
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I've always hated how when I increase boldness, the text shifts, making me lose focus for a second. So I upped the em size of the font (from 1000 to a proper 2048) and removed its hints using fontforge and it seems to have worked. With every boldness increase, the words remain static.

I used the old Bookerly v1.020, the version before Amazon ruined it. And I renamed it to DaltonMaag, the typographer.
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Old 04-17-2020, 10:49 AM   #2
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Thanks, I'll try it on my Kindles when I get the time.
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I've always hated how when I increase boldness, the text shifts, making me lose focus for a second. So I upped the em size of the font (from 1000 to a proper 2048) and removed its hints using fontforge and it seems to have worked. With every boldness increase, the words remain static.

I used the old Bookerly v1.020, the version before Amazon ruined it. And I renamed it to DaltonMaag, the typographer.
I am not sure what you mean by words remain static. Downloaded and tried on my Oasis 2. When increasing boldness, the words still get longer changing the amount of words per page.
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Old 04-21-2020, 06:23 AM   #4
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I am not sure what you mean by words remain static. Downloaded and tried on my Oasis 2. When increasing boldness, the words still get longer changing the amount of words per page.
That's strange. It's working perfectly for me, here's a preview: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I-...T0mzWuLUiIYJdk
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Old 04-21-2020, 11:14 AM   #5
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That's strange. It's working perfectly for me, here's a preview: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I-...T0mzWuLUiIYJdk
It doesn't work with the KFX renderer. The KF8 renderer does work as you say, even for me.
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It doesn't work with the KFX renderer. The KF8 renderer does work as you say, even for me.
Oh interesting! I used to convert books to kfx but stopped a while ago once I discovered the FONT_RAMP trick. Conversion takes a fraction of the time it takes to convert to kfx too.
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That's strange. It's working perfectly for me, here's a preview: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I-...T0mzWuLUiIYJdk
How is it working? It looks like words are shifting big time as you increase the weight with Bookerly.
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How is it working? It looks like words are shifting big time as you increase the weight with Bookerly.
Yes it does that with Bookerly, but the version I modified (Dalton Maag) does not shift the text when changing weight.
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I've always hated how when I increase boldness, the text shifts, making me lose focus for a second. So I upped the em size of the font (from 1000 to a proper 2048) and removed its hints using fontforge and it seems to have worked. With every boldness increase, the words remain static.

I used the old Bookerly v1.020, the version before Amazon ruined it. And I renamed it to DaltonMaag, the typographer.
Do you know what firmware version incorporated the new ("ruined") Bookerly? I'm on v5.12.1.1
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Do you know what firmware version incorporated the new ("ruined") Bookerly? I'm on v5.12.1.1
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Does 5.12.5 fix Bookerly?
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Does 5.12.5 fix Bookerly?
Bookerly was never broken. And in the sense of this thread, Bookerly in 5.12.4 and 5.12.5 act exactly the same.
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Bookerly was never broken. And in the sense of this thread, Bookerly in 5.12.4 and 5.12.5 act exactly the same.
Amazon did break Bookerly. They removed the hinting and now there is a problem with smaller sizes.
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Amazon did break Bookerly. They removed the hinting and now there is a problem with smaller sizes.
OTOH the new version did add 60+ extra glyphs which might be considered an improvement by those who never read at those very small font-sizes.
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Amazon did break Bookerly. They removed the hinting and now there is a problem with smaller sizes.
What kind of problem? Are you seriously trying to tell me that hinting is necessary on a resolution of 300 ppi?
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