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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Maybe remarkable, but not surprising.
Release in time for the winter holidays was probably a hard requirement and update out of the box is so normalized that it is part of the plan and that update is taking longer than planned for. Oops.
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I got an immediate update to 5.16.1 as soon as I set it up (4 days ago). I do not know how long that's been available, but there is no WHAT'S NEW notes for it so it appears that's what everyone has had all along (assuming they let the update happen) since Scribe started shipping 30 Nov 2022. There is no way they did not know 5.16.1 had this issue, yet they judged it 'viable' enough to release.
In parallel, the Send To Kindle services were being updated for the ePub and PDF to Print Replica conversions. That seems to have been ready to go, and mostly working as expected (we have some reports that some PDF nav links aren't being picked up, but otherwise the expected data exists in the download).
There was a decision point at launch time. They could have had the services deliver fully functional PDF (without Pen markup) until the issue was resolved, and add the
Import and Markup PDF with Pen to the Coming Soon features.
But I'm guessing they did not imagine it could take this long to fix this issue, and here we are 6 weeks later, with no fix.
As a former Software Developer in Test, with some experience with embedded systems like Kindle, I appreciate how unpredictable software development is, no matter how capable the development team or how rigorously best practices are embraced or how simple any given task might appear before you actually start working on it.
But while I do appreciate, it's still difficult to believe we're still waiting.