Thread: [Script] Koboify Fonts
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Old 05-30-2022, 09:47 PM   #134
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Originally Posted by CerealAssassin View Post
Thanks for the long and detailed response. I have indeed followed through on your advice to test each one and I seem to slightly prefer the way ePubs are rendered so I shall stick with that for now. I’ll have to manually resize maps in fantasy books cause unfortunately there’s no image zoom functionality with RMSDK but in general I find the text to be more pleasing with it so it’s worth the trade off in my opinion.
I do a mix of epub and kepub. Though I am tending towards kepub at the moment. For books with maps, I usually wrap them in svg tags to let them size to the biggest they can. But, these are also the books I am more likely to read as kepubs. Anything with a lot of images or footnotes will work better as a kepub.
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I have one last question for you if you don’t mind, would you recommend that I also download KoReader and Plato (and perhaps any other non-Nickel document viewers) and give them a try as well to see if any of them perhaps handle typesetting as well as RMSDK or is RMSDK just considered to have the best typesetting engine?
My recommendation is the same as before. Try and see. Personally, I never use them. I think tried KOReader when it first came out, but, couldn't be bothered to do the setup (it's a lot simpler now). And I have I never tried Plato. I have no issue with the Kobo renderers, do like a lot of things about them and hence have never felt the need to try anything else.
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As you can probably tell, I’m very new to the eReader scene and all my knowledge comes from pretty much scrolling through these forums for a couple of hours so apologies if my questions seem strange or when answered at some point since most RMSDK vs ACCESS vs Others comparisons I found seem to be from around 2019 or 2020 and I assume they’ve all changed at least a little since then.
Until the last two versions of firmware, I don't think anything changed in that time. Or for a while before. I don't remember when Kobo got the RMSDK V10, but was before 2019. It is only in the last tow firmware versions that things might have change. There have been major font handling changes in them. That has affected the kepub renderer more than the RMSDK. These might mean that it is catching up to the RMSDK in terms of typography, or other features (the supplemental fonts is one big change), but, I don't know. And if I am honest, I don't care that much. If I can comfortably read without the device distracting me, then I am happy.
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