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jgoguen · 07-28-2013, 03:07 PM

KoboTouchExtended version 2.0.0 has been posted. Coming soon to a calibre update notification, or attached to the first post of this thread for the impatient among us

This version breaks compatibility with versions of calibre prior to 0.9.41, and brings support for Kobo firmware 2.8.1.

People with smaller screen resolutions should notice that they can now actually see the entire options dialog, which is expected to improve their ability to view and select options.

When copying post-conversion KePubs to a directory, the driver save template is now used to generate the file path to copy the book to.

When silently ignoring failed conversions, the driver will actually upload the books as ePub now instead of teasing you with suggestive wording and leaving you to wonder where the books went.

If you have Reading Life partially or fully disabled, the Awards tile may still show up but be blank. There's now an option to block the Awards tile from appearing at all.

The way hyphenation was being done sucked. It caused larger files, caused all manner of issues with the display of text, and made looking up words in the dictionary even harder and more confusing. I saw lots of messages saying that "word" could not be found, but the closest match is "word". Hyphenation now depends on a CSS file that gets added to books during conversion. See the README directions for how to send an improved or new hyphenation dictionary to your device. Sorry, it's not really simple. Hyphenation languages provided are:

US English (en_US)
French (fr_FR)
Spanish (es_ES)
German (de_DE)
Italian (it_IT)
Portugese (pt_PT)

To help with future debugging, some details are embedded into each converted book:

Device display name (e.g. "Kobo Glo")
Calibre version (e.g. "0.9.41")
Last connected date (e.g. "2013-07-28T17:48:26.385447+00:00")
Driver option values (e.g. "[u'tags', True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True, False, u'', True, False, False, False, True, True, True, True, u'', True, True, True]")
Driver version (e.g. "2.0.0")
Current UTC time when conversion is done (e.g. "Sun Jul 28 17:52:21 2013")

07-28-2013, 03:07 PM	#499
jgoguen Generally Awesome Person Posts: 1,100 Karma: 2191133 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: /dev/kmem Device: Kobo Clara HD, Kindle Oasis	KoboTouchExtended version 2.0.0 has been posted. Coming soon to a calibre update notification, or attached to the first post of this thread for the impatient among us This version breaks compatibility with versions of calibre prior to 0.9.41, and brings support for Kobo firmware 2.8.1. People with smaller screen resolutions should notice that they can now actually see the entire options dialog, which is expected to improve their ability to view and select options. When copying post-conversion KePubs to a directory, the driver save template is now used to generate the file path to copy the book to. When silently ignoring failed conversions, the driver will actually upload the books as ePub now instead of teasing you with suggestive wording and leaving you to wonder where the books went. If you have Reading Life partially or fully disabled, the Awards tile may still show up but be blank. There's now an option to block the Awards tile from appearing at all. The way hyphenation was being done sucked. It caused larger files, caused all manner of issues with the display of text, and made looking up words in the dictionary even harder and more confusing. I saw lots of messages saying that "word" could not be found, but the closest match is "word". Hyphenation now depends on a CSS file that gets added to books during conversion. See the README directions for how to send an improved or new hyphenation dictionary to your device. Sorry, it's not really simple. Hyphenation languages provided are: US English (en_US) French (fr_FR) Spanish (es_ES) German (de_DE) Italian (it_IT) Portugese (pt_PT) To help with future debugging, some details are embedded into each converted book: Device display name (e.g. "Kobo Glo") Calibre version (e.g. "0.9.41") Last connected date (e.g. "2013-07-28T17:48:26.385447+00:00") Driver option values (e.g. "[u'tags', True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True, False, u'', True, False, False, False, True, True, True, True, u'', True, True, True]") Driver version (e.g. "2.0.0") Current UTC time when conversion is done (e.g. "Sun Jul 28 17:52:21 2013")