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Originally Posted by roger64
This is not a surprise. This has nothing to do with the format. Kobo rendering for the EPUB format is just sub-par, plainly poor, riddled with longstanding bugs. If I cripple you before starting, there is no surprise if I shall probably win the race...
"Kobo, with limited resources, is bracing mostly for the incoming EPUB3 support... ta la la, ta la la..." How do you say "langue de bois" in English?
Out of the MOBI world, I guess that the vast majority of ebooks are in EPUB2 format but who cares... Not Kobo for sure.
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If Kobo wrote their own renderer for epub2, you might have a valid point. However, the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK is not a Kobo product. Adobe appears to have handed over the responsibility for developing and maintaining the SDK to Datalogics. The Datalogics webpage suggests that they are being quite active in fixing some bugs. How long it takes for those fixes to be propagated back to their customers, tested and included in updates? Your guess is as good as mine.
Langue du bois, if I revert it back to Russian and then to English, would be probably be closest to weasel wording -- like most politicians, able to say many words but with little meaningful content.
As for the epub2, yes, most epub ebooks available now are epub2. To support more languages such as Japanese properly, you need at least part of the epub3 standard implemented. Adobe had a roadmap for epub3 support which was withdrawn, as near as I can tell, this was done around the same time they started supporting the Readium project. Looking at Datalogics web page, they appear to be waiting for the Readium project to finish their epub3 SDK before adding the Adobe ADEPT DRM support to their version of the SDK.
Regards,
David