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Sepelion · 05-31-2018, 02:45 AM

eReader: KA1
Latest firmware
Regarding: kepub's broken / cut off.
Related plugins/tools tested: KoboTouchExtended and Kepubify

TL;DR Question: Does anyone have normal working kepub's on the latest firmware (4.8.11073) without cutoff edges, normal chapters with correct page counts, ability to turn pages without half or more (or all sometimes if you keep turning) text missing?

Up until the most recent firmware (4.8.11073), I had no issues with using the patch to make kepub's full screen (aka "three fixes" for kepubs patch). I used it on the last two or three firmwares with no issue.

Most of my books are in Calibre in ePub -> Send to Device -> Calibre's plugin KoboTouchExtended converts that ePub to a kepub during that transfer and you get a kepub.epub on the kobo, which shows as a Kobo Epub in Nickel's book list. That's expected and normal.

Now though, with the latest patch, you can open these kepubs, and you're getting chopped off pages despite having patched for full screen, and even if you revert to just the firmware itself (meaning no patch at all), it's identical, still chopped off pages on the ends, sometimes whole pages missing, and also, if you go to the chapter/pages scroll button at the bottom, you see some ridiculous number of pages like 29352 for books that really only have 200 or 300 pages, and when you try to jump around, you usually get blank pages.

If you go into settings and turn off full-screen (enabling show headers and footers checkmark box), you still get a cut-off text, just going behind those header and footer overlay bars.

That suggests to me that something in the last patch either broke kepub's, or KoboTouchExtended's kepub generation is broken; the latter would be verified if someone else has working kepubs generated by another method that have no such issues.

If I disable KoboTouchExtended and just send my ePub's to the KA1, I have no issue with those, fullscreen and not, both work with regular epubs, with proper chapter/page numbers in the scroll-line browser at the bottom (the book shows the correct 328 pages in epubs, and browses correctly showing full pages, rather than how the kepubs were showing 30k pages and dragging around just went to blank nothing).

UPDATE: Tested converting ePub's to kepub with Kepubify (and direct-copying the kepubs to kobo folder), same result: cut off pages, incorrect chapter/page numbers, regardless of full screen on or off, and regardless of whether I am using the patched version of the firmware or the stock version. This probably removes KoboTouchExtended plugin as a culprit, since two separate kepub generating methods both return the same broken result on the latest firmware; unless someone has a third to test that works, then both of those are the problem (unlikely).

UPDATE: More behavior feedback with kepubs

So, when you go to a chapter list, and then try to jump to a chapter, it jumps to a page, then it jumps back to the index by itself.

05-31-2018, 02:45 AM	#991
Sepelion Member Posts: 16 Karma: 52822 Join Date: Jul 2016 Device: Kobo Forma, Sage	eReader: KA1 Latest firmware Regarding: kepub's broken / cut off. Related plugins/tools tested: KoboTouchExtended and Kepubify TL;DR Question: Does anyone have normal working kepub's on the latest firmware (4.8.11073) without cutoff edges, normal chapters with correct page counts, ability to turn pages without half or more (or all sometimes if you keep turning) text missing? Up until the most recent firmware (4.8.11073), I had no issues with using the patch to make kepub's full screen (aka "three fixes" for kepubs patch). I used it on the last two or three firmwares with no issue. Most of my books are in Calibre in ePub -> Send to Device -> Calibre's plugin KoboTouchExtended converts that ePub to a kepub during that transfer and you get a kepub.epub on the kobo, which shows as a Kobo Epub in Nickel's book list. That's expected and normal. Now though, with the latest patch, you can open these kepubs, and you're getting chopped off pages despite having patched for full screen, and even if you revert to just the firmware itself (meaning no patch at all), it's identical, still chopped off pages on the ends, sometimes whole pages missing, and also, if you go to the chapter/pages scroll button at the bottom, you see some ridiculous number of pages like 29352 for books that really only have 200 or 300 pages, and when you try to jump around, you usually get blank pages. If you go into settings and turn off full-screen (enabling show headers and footers checkmark box), you still get a cut-off text, just going behind those header and footer overlay bars. That suggests to me that something in the last patch either broke kepub's, or KoboTouchExtended's kepub generation is broken; the latter would be verified if someone else has working kepubs generated by another method that have no such issues. If I disable KoboTouchExtended and just send my ePub's to the KA1, I have no issue with those, fullscreen and not, both work with regular epubs, with proper chapter/page numbers in the scroll-line browser at the bottom (the book shows the correct 328 pages in epubs, and browses correctly showing full pages, rather than how the kepubs were showing 30k pages and dragging around just went to blank nothing). UPDATE: Tested converting ePub's to kepub with Kepubify (and direct-copying the kepubs to kobo folder), same result: cut off pages, incorrect chapter/page numbers, regardless of full screen on or off, and regardless of whether I am using the patched version of the firmware or the stock version. This probably removes KoboTouchExtended plugin as a culprit, since two separate kepub generating methods both return the same broken result on the latest firmware; unless someone has a third to test that works, then both of those are the problem (unlikely). UPDATE: More behavior feedback with kepubs So, when you go to a chapter list, and then try to jump to a chapter, it jumps to a page, then it jumps back to the index by itself. Last edited by Sepelion; 05-31-2018 at 03:17 AM.