Thread: Aura H2O EPUB footnotes are nearly impossible to click
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Old 08-14-2015, 04:37 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by lkstrummer View Post
-Also affects the Aura HD, and I'm assuming all other units

I read a good deal of EPUBs that contain hyperlinked footnotes. Unfortunately, I have to convert the EPUB to a KEPUB to keep the functionality of the footnote intact. EPUB footnotes are virtually impossible to click - you essentially have to click right on one or two pixels. When after multiple tries you do manage to click the footnote, it jumps you to the section of the EPUB in which the footnotes are aggregated. At that point, it's another ordeal to click back to your original page if the footnote spans a page or two and you can't conveniently use the back button.

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Is there a patch that I'm missing? Is there anything we can do to pressure Kobo to fix this issue? Does anyone have any solutions that have worked for them?
No real solution other than to use kepub format if footnotes are important to you. You can attempt to pressure Kobo. However since I think much of the footnote handling is part of the Adobe RMSDK and ACCESS renderer functionality, we may have to wait until RMSDK finally gets close to full epub3 support before seeing any changes.
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