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tomsem · 01-15-2023, 04:43 PM

Well, I don't know what I was expecting but the KFX file I pulled off Scribe and put on my iPad mini functions as one would hope Scribe will soon:

- can select text, highlight, and add notes (on iPad of course, handwriting recognition
kicks in)
- hyperlinks work
- text remains crisp to zoom in limit

So it confirms (again) that the files are intact and it's an issue with Scribe firmware, and for iOS, they can flip a switch, and service will send Print Replica (instead of PDF) that you can mark up with Kindle app (at least with text notes, highlights, etc.)

The PDF I put on behaves like PDFs downloaded from personal documents storage, which is to say they are just rendered and you can't mark them up. I suspect they're just using whatever is built in to iOS for PDF preview. Not likely to change.

The app seems not to know KFX files were side-loaded (noticed this before). So it brings up Delete From Library option.

01-15-2023, 04:43 PM	#20
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,950 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Well, I don't know what I was expecting but the KFX file I pulled off Scribe and put on my iPad mini functions as one would hope Scribe will soon: - can select text, highlight, and add notes (on iPad of course, handwriting recognition kicks in) - hyperlinks work - text remains crisp to zoom in limit So it confirms (again) that the files are intact and it's an issue with Scribe firmware, and for iOS, they can flip a switch, and service will send Print Replica (instead of PDF) that you can mark up with Kindle app (at least with text notes, highlights, etc.) The PDF I put on behaves like PDFs downloaded from personal documents storage, which is to say they are just rendered and you can't mark them up. I suspect they're just using whatever is built in to iOS for PDF preview. Not likely to change. The app seems not to know KFX files were side-loaded (noticed this before). So it brings up Delete From Library option. Last edited by tomsem; 01-15-2023 at 05:23 PM.