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Old 07-16-2012, 10:57 AM   #421
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Again, annoying to me but how many others edit their epubs on a regular basis?
I do, too.

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I do. Change generic publisher cover to actual book cover. Resize cover so that it fills entire screen. Clean up all the crappy css and simplify the coding, make the formatting the same as they had it but with much much cleaner code. Fix spelling mistakes. Change the meta data for the title of the book if it is a series so that they show in proper order in the Library.
How do you resize the cover for it to be full size? I've tried ALL sorts of everything (usually using Sigil), but anything I do for side loaded books always results in the same: height is perfect, but the KT displays large margins left and right, even if the images size is ok (which means that the image will be squashed to make the margins)... This is true even for books that I have bought from Kobo: the kepub has perfect cover, but the cover of the epub version of the same book has large margins to left and right.

I have one or two side loaded books that have a perfect cover, and if I copy the cover page code from that book to a different one, that second one will still show the margins :S
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Old 07-16-2012, 10:59 AM   #422
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Chapter heading missing

Hi,

I note that with the new firmware 2.0.0, I don't retrieve the title chapter when I use the "<->" function to navigate in the ebook : I just have the page number on all pages. This "error" only appears with epub book, not kepub.

Does anyone have this problem?
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Old 07-16-2012, 11:52 AM   #423
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Hi
My KT did auto upgrade to 2 not problems in upgrade.
Today suddenly did reset and went back to 1.917
Would not do auto upgrade to 2 so followed kaikara upgrade path.
Now on 2 (41166) but don't think its the corrected version as still shows wrong book on sleep!.
Like some of changes like dictionary but miss clock not showing on centre tap.
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Old 07-16-2012, 12:01 PM   #424
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How do you resize the cover for it to be full size? I've tried ALL sorts of everything (usually using Sigil), but anything I do for side loaded books always results in the same: height is perfect, but the KT displays large margins left and right, even if the images size is ok (which means that the image will be squashed to make the margins)... This is true even for books that I have bought from Kobo: the kepub has perfect cover, but the cover of the epub version of the same book has large margins to left and right.

I have one or two side loaded books that have a perfect cover, and if I copy the cover page code from that book to a different one, that second one will still show the margins :S
1) If I like the cover that comes with the epub I unzip the epub, take the cover image in it, resize the image to 600w x 800h (use your favorite image editor), save it, rezip the epub.

2) add the following code (replace the existing code) with:

Code:
<body style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<div><img alt="" src="../Images/cover.jpg" /></div>
</body>

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Old 07-16-2012, 12:03 PM   #425
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I would expect that when there is an actual new version, Kobo staff will (as usual) announce it on the MR board.

Not Speculation

All of the 2.0 versions out there are the same. There have been no bug fixes or feature changes in any of them. There are all sorts of reasons for seeing things like the change to 41166 (mostly having to do with keeping things straight as different developers work on the same code), but any actual changes to features or bug fixes get their very own firmware version number so that everyone can get them.

Keeping it at 2.0 ensures that anyone successfully running a version of 2.0 need not go through an update process only to be served with the same thing they had already.

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Old 07-16-2012, 12:04 PM   #426
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Hi
My KT did auto upgrade to 2 not problems in upgrade.
Today suddenly did reset and went back to 1.917
Would not do auto upgrade to 2 so followed kaikara upgrade path.
Now on 2 (41166) but don't think its the corrected version as still shows wrong book on sleep!.
Like some of changes like dictionary but miss clock not showing on centre tap.
Michael
Edit... what Taming said

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Old 07-16-2012, 12:11 PM   #427
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I agree with taming although I have to wonder why after several days of distributing 1.9.17 through sync that they started again distributing 2.0.0. As it is, I'm back at 2.0.0 and so far so good. Hopefully, Sameer, MDK, or someone from Kobo will post here and let us know what's going on so we can all get back to reading.
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Old 07-16-2012, 12:27 PM   #428
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1) If I live the cover that comes with the epub I unzip the epub, take the cover image in it, resize the image to 600w x 800h (use your favorite image editor), save it, rezip the epub.

2) add the following code (or replace the existing code) with:

Code:
<body style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<div><img alt="" src="../Images/cover.jpg" /></div>
</body>
Oh! Yay! It worked! Thank you. All the messing about with the code, and I never thought to physically alter the dimensions of the image... stupid me. Does seem like a weird hassle though, that you can't just tell the file to preview the image at 600x800 independent of what the actual dimensions are...
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I would expect that when there is an actual new version, Kobo staff will (as usual) announce it on the MR board.

Not Speculation

All of the 2.0 versions out there are the same. There have been no bug fixes or feature changes in any of them. There are all sorts of reasons for seeing things like the change to 41166 (mostly having to do with keeping things straight as different developers work on the same code), but any actual changes to features or bug fixes get their very own firmware version number so that everyone can get them.

Keeping it at 2.0 ensures that anyone successfully running a version of 2.0 need not go through an update process only to be served with the same thing they had already.

I disagree, Sameer himself (in another thread on this board) was indecisive about whether a fix would get a new version number or not, so clearly from that statement a fixed firmware may we be just 2.0.0.
The one people are downloading atm may well have changes in it.

In addition to that, I installed the original version a few days ago and now this new version. I have noticed differences in speed, especially when starting the KT from a powered down state, although page turning from sideloaded epubs are still slower compared to 1.9.17

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I imagine that when they knew for sure that there was a problem, they also knew that they would have to do some detective work to see exactly where the problem was.

It is possible that they have been able to ascertain that the source of the problem is not 2.0 so they are making it available again.
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Upgraded from the first iteration of 2.0 and the later version and I don't see any apparent differences. Sideloaded ePubs are still just as slow as the first 2.0 version.
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I disagree, Sameer himself (in another thread on this board) was indecisive about whether a fix would get a new version number or not, so clearly from that statement a fixed firmware may we be just 2.0.0.
The one people are downloading atm may well have changes in it.
I checked with the developers before writing the post and confirmed the information I provided.
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I imagine that when they knew for sure that there was a problem, they also knew that they would have to do some detective work to see exactly where the problem was.

It is possible that they have been able to ascertain that the source of the problem is not 2.0 so they are making it available again.
So why would the problems in the first "version" of 2.0.0 I downloaded either be less of a problem or gone completely?
The hardware hasn't changed AT ALL on my KT (same microsd card) and the books are exactly the same as well.
It stands to reason that this re-release of the firmware has changed.

Still, the page turns are still bad no matter what. I may well go back to 1.9.17, but am willing to give 2.0.0 a shot.
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I did try to update again just right now (manual update by the download-and-unzip method) just to test the latest version, and I ran into the issue with being unable to open a sideloaded epub without causing the reader to reboot…
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So why would the problems in the first "version" of 2.0.0 I downloaded either be less of a problem or gone completely?
There may be issues that have been "fixed" relating to bad installs some people were getting that are NOT changes to the firmware itself. I'm clueless about that part. I am not clueless about changes to the firmware itself.

Really, do not try some sort of workaround if you are successfully running 2.0. You will not get faster pages changes on ePUB, the wrong cover thing is the same, the sideloaded font situation is still truly icky.

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