Kobo weird rendering of complex styles...

[Patrick V]

Hi,

I read my epubs on a Kobo Aura H2O and write them as a hobby. I use Sigil and Caliber to edit them.

Here is the result I get on both Sigil and Caliber: when I stretch the text, it is correctly redisplayed:





On my Kobo, the lines overlap...

If I sideload the file in kepub, the behavior is correct... but then I have problems with the notes (styles not rendered in popups).

Should render like this:



I know Calibre/Sigil and Kobo don't use the same rendering engine (webkit vs adobe rmsdk).

I would like to create an epub that behaves correctly on all platforms (probably a dream....)

Is it possible to adapt my xhtml and css codes to achieve this goal for this particular epub?

I attached the test.epub file. Maybe you can test it on another platform ?

Thank you for your advice,

Patrick

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by Patrick V

Hi,
I read my epubs on a Kobo Aura H2O and write them as a hobby. I use Sigil and Caliber to edit them.

Here is the result I get on both Sigil and Caliber: when I stretch the text, it is correctly redisplayed:
...
On my Kobo, the lines overlap...

In landscape mode? Because in portrait is impossible that lines are not overlapped.

Your epub has many errors; maybe if you first fix them, things work fine in your Kobo Aura.

If I sideload the file in kepub, the behavior is correct... but then I have problems with the notes (styles not rendered in popups).

Try fixing the errors because them are in notes.xhtml.

I know Calibre/Sigil and Kobo don't use the same rendering engine (webkit vs adobe rmsdk).

I would like to create an epub that behaves correctly on all platforms (probably a dream....)

Is it possible to adapt my xhtml and css codes to achieve this goal for this particular epub?

All platforms? What do you mean? Epub2/epub3? Webkit/RMSDK? Legacy ADE (RMSDK) doesn't support epub3. If for all platforms you mean epub2 for Webkit/RMSDK, well, build an epub for RMSDK and what you get, it will work also for webkit. By the way, Kobo has a nice support for epub3 (at least, Kobo for Android and iOS; I don't know if all eink devices have been updated with the last rendering engine).