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Old 11-21-2014, 11:43 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Sharkus View Post
I'm about to have a quick look, but I suspect it's an ePub2 fixed layout book, and that is certainly one format of book that doesn't have the Adobe DRM download option. I'll update the post once I've had a chance to look at the book and confirm.

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Confirmed, it's ePub2 Fixed Layout.

As said above, I do not believe we have ever offered an Adobe DRM download option for fixed layout content, and typically they can only be read on our Tablet devices, or the mobile apps (certainly iOS and Android apps can view these files)

Minor nit: FLO is an epub3 feature.

Not so minor nit: From what I've seen on epubtest.org, the Kobo's eInk devices have pretty much the same level of FLO support as the Android app and better support than the iOS app in testing done in June, 2014. The comparisons I did back in September pretty well matched those results.

For those interested, you can download the test suite from epubtest.org either in bits and pieces or a .zip archive of the entire test suite. For the current .zip archive, Test Suite ZIP archive is the download link.

For a Kobo eInk device, rename the files in the archive to .kepub.epub to use the ACCESS renderer though using .epub and looking at the suite gives a good idea of why trying to read an epub3 ebook on an epub2 renderer is Not A Good Idea.

Last edited by DNSB; 11-21-2014 at 11:46 AM. Reason: added rename information
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