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Originally Posted by irc24
Really Pleased with my Glo with last firmware.
But here, the two BUGs:
1) When I rotate a PDF of 90 degrees two black bands appear at the sides... They disappear only if I zoom in.
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About PDF issues: these will probably never be fixed.
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Originally Posted by irc24
2) With the Kobo Font, when I read epub, if there's a word in the last line with characters "p, g, q, y", the low part is cut off and appear on the next page.
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This is due one of the "choices" Kobo made for you! They chose to add a top and footer with book and page number information. Resulting in viewport (size) conflicts as these bars are non transparent overlays of the reading area (viewport).
Your pictures show clearly (Kobo employees take notice! Note, applicable to all Kobo devices)
- header and footer are unnecessary wide, which is caused by
- a) placing the actual informational text at a position to far from the screen edge,
- b) surrounding these texts with huge margins.
- rendering issues, as mentioned in this post (among others). These rendering issues making it even worse for the bottom bar. As sentences seem to "break" without reason making the gap of the bottom bar and book text area even bigger. No, I'm not being anal (no pun intended), the pictures speak for themselves.
With the current firmware (2.6.1) the margins of the
- top bar are almost 2 times bigger than the actual text size
- bottom bar are almost 2.5 times bigger than the actual text size (* note)
(* note) measured under perfect conditions which are almost never met due to several rendering issues, which add unidentified additional "gaps" to the bottom bar. The size of this additonal gap varies but on average about 1 text line.
If Kobo decides to fix them then the most likely solution will be to enhance the size of the bars instead of making them smaller. The odds are in favor of the first "solution" if you simply read bug threads on MB (or reported bugs on other sites) and how Kobo solved these or tried to.
But what if…
In reading mode (not to be confused with the bars that are displayed when in menu mode)
- The text size of the top and bottom bar stay the same
- The surrounding margins are reduced to the same height of the text
Yes, these are very conservative bar margins. The bars in reading mode require no user input, meaning there is no justification for extra wide margins. The information itself is perfectly readable.