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I also downloaded the ones Xendula recommended - Adobe Caslon Pro, Minion Pro and Constantia - but I'll try them out tomorrow, enough restarting PW for the first day |
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Good to know, you could say I was overwhelmed when I saw all those font names
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I've been playing with the line spacing in the Modified Charis SIL fonts and I have made the spacing even tighter then the official Compact version. This looks pretty good in Mobi and KF8. It actually seems to fix the spacing issue with KF8. The font name is now called Charis SIL Compact in order to denote it being different. The filenames are the same as before. But that is something you can easily change if you want.
I'd like opinions on how you think this looks. The link is for the fonts including the smallcaps (for KF8). http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?64cse2dshispx08 P.S. If you've downloaded the Charis SIL Compact from the SIL site, don't bother with them. You will find them not as good as the modied version linked above. The Modified version has a smaller line height and a greater weight. Last edited by JSWolf; 01-30-2013 at 02:37 PM. |
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01-15-2013, 05:22 PM | #112 |
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Help! I just got my paperwhite, and want to do the trick to add custom fonts to it, but when I try to go to the blog site where the instructions were given for the USE ALT FONTS trick was given, I get a note saying "this site may be for sale" - can someone give me the directions for adding that file, and the Charis SIL fonts?
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Someone made the blank file if you don't know how see this post. Fonts naming must looks like this (Arial being used as example) Arial-Regular Arial-Bold Arial-Italic Arial-BoldItalic If you get stuck just holler! Last edited by Blossom; 01-15-2013 at 05:37 PM. |
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01-15-2013, 05:37 PM | #114 |
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Is the USE_ALT_FONTS file put in the main directory, or in the fonts subdirectory?
I put Charis SIL and Charis SIL Compact in separate folders in the Font folder, and now I've got them listed twice on my fonts list - any ideas why? |
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The blank file goes into the root of the Kindle drive. Try removing subfolders. It should just be one folder. They seems to be linked correctly. Last edited by Blossom; 01-15-2013 at 05:45 PM. |
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Thanks, Blossom, it works! Wheee! now to play with them, see which font I like best for reading. (I think Palatino is very graceful, but may be a bit light - I'll have to try the ever-popular Charis)
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What to do is take the original modified Charis SIL and put them in the fonts directory. Then take the new Compact version and rename them like so... CharisSILCompactR.ttf <--- Regular CharisSILCompactI.ttf <--- Italic CharisSILCompactB.ttf <--- Bold CharisSILCompactBI.ttf <--- Bold Italic Then put those in the fonts directory and you will have Charis SIL and Charis SIL Compact in your font menu after you reboot. Then you can decide which you prefer and delete the other or just keep both. Did you get the Compact Charis SIL from http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?64cse2dshispx08 or the ones from the SIL site? The ones from the SIL site sill have too much line spacing in KF8. Last edited by JSWolf; 01-30-2013 at 02:38 PM. |
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I got it from your download site. It's a very nice font - looks good. I have to use a larger font size with it than I do with Palatino.
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