Comfortaa complete font substitution - now in cab installer

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Hi all

First of all I need to credit aajohan from deviant art for the Comfortaa font:

http://aajohan.deviantart.com/art/Co...font-105395949

I've playing arond with fonts for the last couple of days. (I have a week of work!) I really like the comfortaa font that GODZON listed on his TF3D + Windows fonts thread here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=471604

However, the cab file only changed one of the TF3D fonts and I had some trouble changing the other. Anyway, here is where I have got to (There is a larger screen shot attached):



I've managed to change all the fonts, both system fonts and all the TF3D fonts. However, I would like the title font in TF3D to be Comfortaa Thin, which is proving to be difficult. To change your fonts to Comfortaa you need to copy the attached font files into two respective folders. They are sorted into these folders in the .zip file but just in case:

To install this font use the cab attached. credit to starmans for this cab file.

Manual install method:

Place the following files directly into your \Windows\ folder:

1) HelveticaNeue LT 35 Thin.ttf
2) HelveticaNeueOTS.ttf
3) tahoma.ttf
4) tahomebd.ttf

Place the following files into your \Windows\Fonts\ folder:

1) Comfortaa Bold.ttf
2) Comfortaa Regular.ttf
3) Comfortaa Thin.ttf
4) ZZ.TTF

Soft reset and when you restart your device you should have Comfortaa system and TF3D fonts. It is worth noting that if you do not have a \Fonts\ folder in your windows folder you do not need to copy these last four fonts to your device (unless you want Comfortaa available in MS Office). However, if you do not copy them, one of your TF3D fonts may change if you install software that uses its own custom fonts. For me Bible reading software did this as it uses special fonts for greek and hebrew.

To uninstall the font:

1) Rename the copied font files' extensions in Total Commander PPC to .ttt, do for example "tahoma.ttf" becomes "tahoma.ttt".
2) Soft reset the device.
3) Delete the .ttt files.

In terms of the screenshots you can get my wallpaper here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...2&postcount=64

and:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...5&postcount=67

Cheers

andrew-in-woking

Is there a way to come back to the standard font ? Do I just delete the files ?

Tutorial

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Hi all

Here's a tutorial about how I did it, and how to change your fonts too:

Before you start you should know:

1) I'm not an expert, I just have some patience to try things out so I won't guarantee that this method will work with your device and chosen font.

2) If you have already installed a cusomized font via a cab file, uninstall it before copying any font files to your device.

3) You will not be able to copy and overwrite any manually copied font files. If you haven previously copied any font files over the ones in the ROM, you will need to rename these using a powerful file explorer such as Total Commander PPC. I recommend renaming the extension to .ttt then, after a soft reset, you can copy them onto your storage card and rename the extensions back to .ttf.

Tutorial:

You'll need at least two fonts, one regular and one bold (or one light and one regular, etc) First make copies of your two fonts and rename the files:

1) tahoma.ttf
2) tahomabd.ttf

respectively. Now, you will need some software called FontCreator. It's quite expensive so you might want to find a trial version of version 5.0 of the program as this one lets you save files. Open FontCreator and open tahoma.ttf. In the Tools menu select "AutoNaming..." and type "Tahoma" in the "Font Family Name:" field. Ensure the drop down box below the font family name field is "Regular" and click next, then Finish, then of course, save.

Follow this procedure for tahomabd.ttf except when you get into the "AutoNaming..." wizard again select "Tahoma" as the font family name but select "Bold" in the box underneath.

Make a new copies of your regular and bold fonts and rename the files:

1) HelveticaNeue LT 35 Thin.ttf
2) HelveticaNeueOTS.ttf

respectively. Open HelveticaNeue LT 35 Thin.ttf in FontCreator and again go to Tools and "AutoNaming...". This time put "HelveticaNeue LT 35 Thin" in the Font Family Name field and select regular then next, finish and save the font. Follow the same procedure for "HelveticaNeueOTS.ttf" but this time using "Helvetica Neue OTS" as the Font Family name.

Make another copy of your bold font and rename the file: "ZZ.TTF" Open ZZ.TTF in FontCreator and go to Tools and "AutoNaming...". This time, simply add " R" at the end of the Font Family Name. So for example "Comfortaa" will become "Comfortaa R". Finish the AutoNaming wizard and save the file.

You are now ready to copy files to your device. The following files go into "\Windows\":

1) tahoma.ttf
2) tahomabd.ttf
3) HelveticaNeue LT 35 Thin.ttf
4) HelveticaNeueOTS.ttf

The following files to into "\Windows\Fonts\":

1) Your original regular font file.
2) Your original bold font file.
3) ZZ.TTF

One point to note, you will not be able to replace files in the ROM of your device (the font files in \Windows\) via your PC. You will need to use a more powerful file explorer such as Total Commander PPC.

Soft reset your device after copying the files and your new fonts should be active.

To uninstall your font:
1) Rename the copied font files' extensions in Total Commander PPC to .ttt, do for example "tahoma.ttf" becomes "tahoma.ttt".
2) Soft reset the device.
3) Delete the .ttt files.

Cheers

andrew-in-woking

Will try out and post the result later...thanks!


Yup!! tested.... work Great!!!

Very, very nice...

Would be even more awesome if someone could make a cab for this

sorry for the OT
how did you managed to get the zoom buttons in the sms tab ?
is there a mod i can install?
i haven't find anything using google.

anyway thanks for the fonts, i really like them...gonna try!


edit: i just tried the font..it looks awesome, but a little smaller than original..
anyway, i only changed the fonts in Windows folder.

the fonts folder wasn't there, so i tried not creating to see what would happen, and i have got system and tf3d font installed without that second folder...maybe thant fonts folder is for something else?

nice one ... will a font change change my font colour aswell ? (voda branded black)

Originally Posted by airon11

sorry for the OT
how did you managed to get the zoom buttons in the sms tab ?

Been searching for that for a while, so far no luck.
I would really like to know that also.

really like the new fonts .. ta Anyway i can change colour of the text in the sms preview window ?

Originally Posted by Rollercoaster

Been searching for that for a while, so far no luck.
I would really like to know that also.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=1819


found..

with this i close the OT