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There are other issues pointed out by Anak if you start using other font variants such as a semi-bold instead of a normal in order to get a darker glyph on the eInk screen. Alternately you can edit the font family name but much easier, in my opinion, to change the font file name. The font name used in naming the font file must be the font name (Windows font viewer) or font family (FontForge) embedded in the font file - if a font is named GillSans-Bold.ttf but the internal name is Gill Sans, the file must be renamed to Gill Sans-Bold.ttf to work on a Kobo ereader. The resolution is that fonts should end with -Bold, -BoldItalic, -Italic, or alternatively, b, i, z." The Adobe SDK allows us to specify a URL to a font file but Qt doesn't allow us to introspect a TTF/OTF for its font family/weight without difficulty. I installed a couple of fonts that had Oblique variants instead of italic but renaming, as an example, the Oblique font file to Deja San-Italic.ttf uses the oblique font for italics.Īs George Talusan once commented: " This is true. Nice thing to be forced to do after buying "the only premium eReader on the market".Īs far as I can tell, if you have the font names correct for sideloaded fonts, a Kobo ereader has no problems with using the fonts and variants correctly. As soon as they are different, you are screwed unless you get a font creation program which I will probably do now. Unfortunately, that correction works only if the font IDs also end in -Bold, -Italic, etc.
#Fontlab glyph not previewing update
When I've 'doctored' my own sideloaded fonts with FontLab Studio and Kobo is not displaying them correcty I know that the font ID is the problem and forgot to update that part.Īnd yes, it is really easy to fix (by that's what Anak explained in his post he linked to. And that is why two of your renamed fonts are displayed in one sub style (italics). The font sub style selection seems to be based on the font ID. I'll play with it a bit more, but listen, Kobo: This really should be easy to fix. Now italics are rendered correctly, but bold is rendered in italics now too (which is far less annoying for me than bold instead of italics.)
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I renamed the italic font -Bold.ttf and the bold one -Italic.ttf. It got on my nerves so much that I felt I needed to fix this - a task far beyond my capabilities unless it was very easy to do, implying that the bug is more stupid than a sane person would imagine. Recently got an Aura, and while I'm generally very happy indeed, the bug that text in italics is rendered bold in some fonts really gets on my nerves. (Sorry if someone has come up with this in one of the many bug threads already - haven't read them all.)