cyrillic fonts in epub

Hi,

I'm trying to read eBooks that are in Russian and therefor need the cyrillic font support. But when I just try to read one, I get only question marks. The Author on the top left and the book title are display correct, but the text not. I've to use a workarounds, that includes the fonts (LiberationSerif-*.ttf) and add the following extra style-sheet information:

		@font-face {
    font-style: italic;
    font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif, sans-serif;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: url(LiberationSerif-Italic.ttf)
    }

		@font-face {
    font-style: normal;
    font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif, sans-serif;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: url(LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf)
    }

		@font-face {
    font-style: italic;
    font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif, sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
    src: url(LiberationSerif-BoldItalic.ttf)
    }

That is not really nice, because the epub files are at least 550kB bigger.

So I tried to insert just the following CSS 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); 
}

but the result are the above mentioned question marks. The path to the font is correct (I tried to use the LiberationSerif on /sdcard/, but it didn't work as well), what am I doing wrong?

Best regards,

jdittric

I don't know what may be wrong, but the way I dealt with missing characters was to use fontforge and python on Linux to copy and paste characters from a font that had those characters into the Droid fonts, which lacked them. Then I replaced the Droid fonts on the EE, and it works.

Could you give me a few more hints how to do all that.

I think that it is not possible, to change the droid font on the eDGe, because I don't know, wether it is possible to do that without having root access.

I have noticed in other epub ccs.
They use one quote ( ' ) instead of ( " )
and
source url with quote also,,,,

You're right that you need root access to change the Droid font. If you've enabled root access, and if you have a Linux PC for running fontforge, I can walk you through the process. If you're new to Linux, it might be a little tricky.

Originally Posted by nprnncbl

You're right that you need root access to change the Droid font. If you've enabled root access, and if you have a Linux PC for running fontforge, I can walk you through the process. If you're new to Linux, it might be a little tricky.

I've linux. How do I root the edge?

Originally Posted by keng2000

I have noticed in other epub ccs.
They use one quote ( ' ) instead of ( " )
and
source url with quote also,,,,

I tried that

@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: normal; 
font-style: normal;
src: url("/system/fonts/DroidSerif-Regular.ttf") format("truetype"), local("Droid Sans"), local("Droid Sans Fallback Regular");
} 
@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
font-style: normal; 
src: url("/system/fonts/DroidSerif-Bold.ttf") format("truetype"), local("Droid Sans"), local("Droid Sans Fallback Regular");
} 
@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: normal; 
font-style: italic; 
src: url("/system/fonts/DroidSerif-Italic.ttf") format("truetype"), local("Droid Sans Fallback Regular");
} 
@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
font-style: italic; 
src: url("/system/fonts/DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype"), local("Droid Sans Fallback Regular");
} 
body { 
   margin-right: 8pt;
   font-family: 'Droid Serif', serif;
}

and other stuff:

@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: normal; 
font-style: normal;
src: local("Droid Serif"), local("Droid Sans Fallback");
} 
@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
font-style: normal; 
src: local("Droid Serif"), local("Droid Sans Fallback");
} 
@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: normal; 
font-style: italic; 
src: local("Droid Serif"), local("Droid Sans Fallback");
} 
@font-face { 
font-family: "Droid Serif", serif, sans-serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
font-style: italic; 
src: local("Droid Serif"), local("Droid Sans Fallback");
} 
body { 
   margin-right: 8pt;
   font-family: 'Droid Serif', serif;
}

Nothing. Even if I could add other fonts, I still can't tell CSS to use them.

See http://www.entourageedge.com/forums/...d.php?684-root for instructions on rooting.

Copy the files in /system/fonts to your PC.
On your linux pc, you'll need python-fontforge installed.
I'll clean up and post the python script I used to modify the fonts.

Why you use this path url(res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf); ???
You can place font in an folder on your sdcard and than try url(res:///extsdcard/your_fonts/name of font.ttf);

Originally Posted by robot

Why you use this path url(res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf); ???

Thats the way it is done on the sony reader. The path is the one, the should work and is pointing to the Droid fonts. The Droid fonts support cyrillic letters.

Originally Posted by robot

You can place font in an folder on your sdcard and than try url(res:///extsdcard/your_fonts/name of font.ttf);

I tried that as well (placing them on the internal storage /sdcard/), it didn't work.

I've found that my font hack didn't totally work. The characters work in the browser, but not in the reader, where they just show up as ????. But when I search through the system, I can't find any other font files. Maybe it's an encoding problem?

cyrillic fonts are displayed correctly, if you integrate the font files in the epub file. But, why waste so much space on something, that should work out of the box.

btw. the font files that I integrated where the Droid fonts and other. Works like a charm.