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Originally Posted by Diruuo
I think this is the first time I see mention of this Reagl refresh. What is it, why is it Aura specific (I use the Aura) and what makes it different from the other refreshes.
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I don't really know about Reagl, someone else can probably answer it better, but it is some sort of technique for doing a partial refresh that doesn't require a full refresh as often, but it requires some hardware support so it can't be done on devices without that hardware. The Aura is supposed to do a Reagl refresh every page and a full refresh just once per chapter, instead of an ordinary partial refresh every page and a full refresh every n-th page.
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Also in regards to the Advanced font controls... I grabbed the Literata .OTF files a while ago from somewhere on the internet and I had the impression that those should work just fine with kepubs (including the advanced font control). The font seems to be applied just fine but the Advanced font controls are not present. Do I still need to apply the patch unlocking the advanced font control or have I simply misunderstood how the kepubs interact with .OTF fonts?
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You still need the patch to enable advanced font controls for sideloaded fonts, unless you rename the font to 'Delima', 'Felbridge', 'Rockwell', or 'Times New Roman' (which were built-in fonts in earlier firmware versions, but have since been removed.) The only difference between ePub and KePub in this regard is that the advanced controls only work for TTF fonts in ePubs, but for both TTF and OTF fonts in KePubs.
However kerning only works with TTF fonts (if the also have 'old-style' kern tables) in Kepubs, but it with both OTF and TTF fonts (without the need for 'old style' kern tables') in ePubs. So in practice TTF is the preferred format for Kobos because it allows kerning and advanced font controls in both ePubs and KePubs.