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davidfor · 12-10-2012, 10:27 PM

I bought a Kobo Glo on the weekend, and can now see what you mean. The map wrapped in svg tags doesn't look very good. The map part was OK, but the title looked terrible. It must be something in the resizing that is done to go from the 600*800 image to the 758*1024 screen. The non-svg map still looks good, but it isn't resized to fit the screen.

Looking at the specs for the PRS-T2, the screen is 600*800. That is the same as the Kobo Touch which I was using for the last batch of tests. They probably look similar as neither need to resize the map to display it.

I tried a couple of other things.

I extracted the map and put it on the Glo. This was displayed full screen and looked very good.

Kobo have their own format. This is known as "kepub" and is basically just an epub with some extras and a different DRM. kepubs are read with a different reader app on the device. If you put an epub on the device with the extension ".kepub.epub", it will be seen as a kepub. When I tried this with your book, both versions of the map were resized to fit the screen and both looked good. If you sell through Kobo, both the epub and kepub version will be available to readers.

From that test, it might be the fault of ADE. The Kobo's use ADE to show epubs. It could be ADE or code it is calling that is at fault. But it might be a common library that Kobo has chosen for images.

12-10-2012, 10:27 PM	#16
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I bought a Kobo Glo on the weekend, and can now see what you mean. The map wrapped in svg tags doesn't look very good. The map part was OK, but the title looked terrible. It must be something in the resizing that is done to go from the 600800 image to the 7581024 screen. The non-svg map still looks good, but it isn't resized to fit the screen. Looking at the specs for the PRS-T2, the screen is 600*800. That is the same as the Kobo Touch which I was using for the last batch of tests. They probably look similar as neither need to resize the map to display it. I tried a couple of other things. I extracted the map and put it on the Glo. This was displayed full screen and looked very good. Kobo have their own format. This is known as "kepub" and is basically just an epub with some extras and a different DRM. kepubs are read with a different reader app on the device. If you put an epub on the device with the extension ".kepub.epub", it will be seen as a kepub. When I tried this with your book, both versions of the map were resized to fit the screen and both looked good. If you sell through Kobo, both the epub and kepub version will be available to readers. From that test, it might be the fault of ADE. The Kobo's use ADE to show epubs. It could be ADE or code it is calling that is at fault. But it might be a common library that Kobo has chosen for images.