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Old 06-02-2022, 10:12 AM   #11
Deobulakenyo
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
QtWebKit is the underlying text rendering engine used by the Kobo kepub reading app (and other reading apps).

The descriptions from the 2 retired patches may help with understanding the 2 options:
  • optimizelegibility: Enables ligatures/kerning in KePubs, but may cause some additional rendering problems for fully justified text.
  • optimizespeed: Disables ligatures/kerning, but fixes some rendering problems that affect fully justified text in KePub

Basically you're choosing whether to render kepub text faster or "better". The latter being subjective, of course.
Thank you for the explanation.
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