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Originally Posted by davidfor
Yes, that is what that option is. The other "Extended" options are related. But, if you don't want kepubs, why did you install the extended driver? "Silently" transforming epubs to kepubs during the send is it's reason for existence.
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That's not clear anywhere. It seemed like a driver for later Kobos like Aura HD and Kobo H2O.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Because no two ereaders or apps from different manufacturer/developers interpret the epub standards in exactly the same way and this allows people to tweak things. It also allows people who share a library to tweak what they see. Or tweak the results for different Kobo devices. And because people wanted an easy way to strip the @page out of the CSS.
This option is off by default. If it is on, you turned it on. Maybe you do have the files it uses. But, if the "kobo_extra.css" file doesn't exist, it doesn't do anything.
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I definitely do not have "kobo_extra.css"
At any rate with these two options off, the Kobo layout now matches the screen in LibreOffice Writer when I create a copy of the source with small page size, 5pt margins, no headers and no footers and page numbers / ... removed from Contents by edit. Also matches Aldiko, Bluefire, (Android tablet & phone) Calibre eReader app, Binatone Readme Daily (Only in Adobe folder. Has LCD screen!). Nook Simple Touch and Sony PRS350. Also PW3 and later Basic Kindle when AZW and recent FW is used.
I used Calibre on Windows XP for a couple of years with three models of Kindle (Paperwhite, Basic touch & DXG) as well as apps on various Android things. Then I got the Kobo original H2O hoping at about 266 DPI and 6.8" screen it would be better for PDFs than the DXG (it's maybe slightly better, but still rubbish for magazine, Letter or A4 PDFs). At first it did as I expected with formatting.
Then the bug on paragraph indent appeared. By then I was using Calibre on Linux. I'd assumed it was a Firmware update that caused it. I'd not changed anything in Calibre for ages till the problem appeared. The only solution I'd found was to use "ems". Both Inches and Points came out haif as wide on the Kobo H2O compared to anything else.
Perhaps at some stage the Kobo Driver was updated. Or I changed the CSS setting, or I'd changed from one Kobo driver to another.
However if the settings in the driver are clearly labelled, both with clearer on dialogue text and the mouse hover text I'd have been spared a lot of wasted time and grief.
I've not tested to see which of the two settings I unchecked has fixed it. Obviously for what I want (Seeing format of same actual eBook on different devices as it would be from Amazon & Smashwords) both settings need unchecked.
If I'm wanting to waste time I may experiment to see if either setting "on" on its own causes the indent to be half width.
I'd never have imagined the eBook edit / CSS feature on the Calibre ePub v2 conversion from odt file or mobi file was showing DIFFERENT css/epub to what was being sent to the Kobo! A Driver should only transfer the file and update eReader database metadata and/or covers if needed. It should NEVER do a file content conversion or edit CSS. I'd never have suspected such a thing.