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Old 07-03-2025, 03:19 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by jackm8 View Post
Are you talking about advanced typesetting? What exactly do you think is forced about that?
Makes me wonder if you have ever used KFX.

The margin adjustment sucks compared to most other formats. Line spacing is forced to a minimum of 1.2. Try a bit of text that uses non-breaking spaces and find that KFX does not support them. Hyphenation has weird items such as a period always being considered as a break point so 5.4GHz will break at the . leaving 5. on one line and 4GHz on the next line. Perhaps you happen to use em or en dashes? Again weird breaks around them. Again, you may not be bothered by such oddities but not everyone is so oblivious.

As for the "enhanced typesetting"? From what Amazon claims to be advanced typesetting, it makes little sense.

Page Flip? hardly a typesetting feature.

Progressive download? Again hardly a typesetting feature.

High definition visuals (HDV) support: That might be useful. Sadly even on an iPad Pro, images are seldom of a high enough resolution to make zooming, panning, etc. useful.

Font size layout improvement. Hmmm... the automatic adjustment is supposed to help with large gaps between words. Of course, this seems to be mostly done by falling back to left-aligned (ragged right) and dropping two column text to one column in landscape mode. And trust me, it ain't pretty when either or both of those happen.

Drop caps: Drop caps that auto-adjust. Sadly, I tried a KFX book with drop caps and changing from the smallest to largest font size made the drop card display do some weird adjustments.

Ragged right justification. Hmmm... let's the customer switch from justified to left aligned (ragged right). Gee, gosh, golly, my antique ereaders from ~2010 could do that.

Hyphenation and smoother word spacing. Again something that has multiple glitches. Comparing between KFX on a PW 12th gen and RMSDK on a Kobo Touch, the difference is not all that noticeable.

Kerning and ligatures. Hmmm... Again something that ADE 1 was able to handle. KFX also suffers from issues with keming when font sizes are changed. and yes that is k-e-m- not k-e-r-n.

MathML. Again something that my antique ereaders handle when using their ePub3 renderer.
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