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Originally Posted by JSWolf
While that does get rid of the fonts that are wanted to be gotten rid of, the fonts that are not wanted to go also go. So I highly recommend staying away from that patch as it causes more trouble than it is worth.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Don't do this. If any of the fonts you want to do away with are ones the system uses, you could brick your Kobo.
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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
I thought this patch only makes the system fonts invisible, but keeps the fonts in the external fonts directory visible, but i don't know for sure because I never tried.
The patch is safe, removing manually all fonts from the internal directory looks indeed dangerous.. if there is no font to use of left,then it can't display anything,it would not really be bricked but without anything to display txt the outcome would be the same, or there must be a system font,not present in the drop down part of the reader, that it uses.
However,like you said, I would not manually remove them all out of the internal font directory, So I would try the patch and try my font tip, at maximum nothing shows up on the font list drop down menu, if lucky the external fonts are displayed,but that one can be reverted easy when you undone the patch.
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Thanks JSWolf and Nick_1964, for your deep thoughts on the subject. I did not dare to try the method suggested by tshering, as it is too complex and technical for me. Besides, I agree, manually removing some system fonts from the device can result in unexpected drastic results.
However, I may try to use font patches method after fully backing up my device as patching could be undone and I may come back to the beginning point after all.
There are two font patches, for system and non system fonts. The unfortunate thing is, Gothic, Ryumin and OpenDyslexic are treated as non system fonts according to the matazoa patch, and if I wish to remove them, consequently all my other sideloaded fonts too will be removed, which is exactly not desirable.
In either case, finally it may be that I will have to learn living with those undesired fonts on my device.
