New Font needed

Are there ANY plans to give more useful fonts for the jetbook lite. My biggest problem with the reader is the fonts it has put the lines of text way too far apart. They almost look like they are double spaced. More font sizes would help too but give us a font that uses the screen size. the big gaps between the lines is a real pain in the butt.

I agree we need more fonts, but the issue you're referring to -- leading -- isn't a function of the fonts provided (Arial and Verdana). The exact same fonts are provided when reading DRM'd content in the eReader format, but the lines are much closer together (in fact, when reading eReader content, I find them TOO close together).

We do indeed need more font choices, but we separately need a way to set leading / line-spacing at values we want; that does not require changing the fonts, and we might get the latter (a simple software enhancement) before the former (which requires licensing the bundling of fonts with the hardware, or adding a way to install fonts from the user's computer onto the device, which might in turn be a violation of the user's license agreements for the fonts on his or her computer).

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Highroller wrote:My biggest problem with the reader is the fonts it has put the lines of text way too far apart. They almost look like they are double spaced.

If you have Calibre (or something similar), try converting your ebooks to pdb format. The interline spacing is significantly less.

Ok, so if its not the font causing the problem, will changing the line spacing via an html stylesheet help? Most of the e-books I have are in html format. Which was a big reason I picked the jetbook lite for a reader. ie it displaying html without format conversions.

Dear Customer

The problem of gaps between lines was resolved in the latest version 0.15.

Please, update Your Jetbook-Lite to 0.15

ftp://custftp:FQSswyvGQ20So@ftp.ectaco.com/Lite_0.15.exe

Best Regards,

Pavel - technical support

Ectaco INC,

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 02/02/2010 16:03:19

Sorry to burst your bubble green/Pavel but I already HAVE firmware v0.15 and for html files the space between lines is definately NOT fixed on the jetbook lite. The space between each line seems to be the same as between paragraphs.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 02/09/2010 03:17:42

I have v.15 and if there is an improvement in the line spacing, I cannot see it either. Why not make it selectable (along with margins)? It will also fill out your nearly empty user settings menu. BTY I'm talking about txt, epub, rtf etc. pdb is the only format with good line spacing that I can see.

Dear Customer

We are planning to add more fonts for Jetbook-Lite. Please, email to pavel@ectaco.com to be added to the mailing list of notifications.

Once we release new updates, everyone in the list will receive them the same day.

Best Regards,

Pavel - technical support

Ectaco INC,