Kobo Firmware 4.12.12111

[Namenlos]

Originally Posted by marianico

I installed the update in my mini and it works well

Thanks!

[johnnyb]

Originally Posted by Biloute75

Hi,

I try to install the last firmware without success. I have a Kobo Aura One. I am still under the 4.10.11655 (8/28/18). How comes ? I live in Denmark (don't think Kobo deploy the firmware first in USA then in Europe or something like that).

I don't want to use the Kobo Desktop (why should I use it if my devise have the wi-fi?)

You could also just download the firmware from the link provided on page 1, unzip it and copy the contents of the zip file to the hidden .kobo folder on your device (which you need to make visible depending on your operating system).
Kobo has many problems, getting the latest firmware installed is not one of them

[lightbulbjim]

Wow, the huge header and footer on epubs is really annoying. I think I'm going to convert my library to kepub. Annoying that I'm forced into it but at least the kepub full screen mode works properly now.

I know I could probably fix the epub margins with a patch but I like to keep life simple. The last thing I want is to replace/reconfigure my device at some point in the future and have weird custom config that I've forgotten about. Actually I like getting rid of kobo_extra.css for this reason.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by lightbulbjim

Wow, the huge header and footer on epubs is really annoying. I think I'm going to convert my library to kepub. Annoying that I'm forced into it but at least the kepub full screen mode works properly now.

I just turn the header and footer off (now that you can do that) and use the Adobe Page number option. Fills up the page really well on my ePubs now.

[ewphoenix123]

Are there real changes to the fullscreen options compared to the last patch?

With the last version there was no way to remove an about half a centimeter top margin even in kepubs.

[lightbulbjim]

Originally Posted by rcentros

I just turn the header and footer off (now that you can do that) and use the Adobe Page number option. Fills up the page really well on my ePubs now.

Ah, good to know. I just finished converting my books to kepub though so I think I'll run with that for now. Good to know the option is there if I want to convert back.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by ewphoenix123

Are there real changes to the fullscreen options compared to the last patch?

With the last version there was no way to remove an about half a centimeter top margin even in kepubs.

Well, there is a way to reduce the bottom by about half, which is to use the custom footer style patch.

There's also a way to reduce the top margin if you don't mind having your top menu bar the same height (they're based on each other). To do this, enable the header and modify the reduce header menubar size patch and make it however small you want (including 0 if you don't mind losing access to the top menubar).

[GeoffR]

Long ago, somewhere around firmware 2.5.2 or so, Kobo tried adding a large page header to ePubs to match the header in KePubs, but quickly reversed it (because of complaints?) Maybe if enough people complain they will reverse it this time too.

I think this is the first time there has been an official firmware update for my device that I won't be installing. I am going to stick with 4.8.11073 which still has the ePub full-scren mode. I can't imaging any possible improvement they could make to the firmware in the future that would make up for the loss of full-screen mode.

[lightbulbjim]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

Long ago, somewhere around firmware 2.5.2 or so, Kobo tried adding a large page header to ePubs to match the header in KePubs

It's even worse (funnier?) than that, because this time they added a proper full screen mode to the kepub reader at the same time!

[stuartjmz]

Originally Posted by lightbulbjim

It's even worse (funnier?) than that, because this time they added a proper full screen mode to the kepub reader at the same time!

I wonder if it may at least partly have been an attempt to encourage the purchasing of kepubs over the sideloading of epubs?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by lightbulbjim

It's even worse (funnier?) than that, because this time they added a proper full screen mode to the kepub reader at the same time!

One of us doesn't understand something. The full screen mode that was available in 4.10.x and before was the same for both epubs and kepubs. But, there were some bugs that hit some kepubs and meant that the end of the line could be cut off. The top and bottom margins were identical for both epubs and kepubs.

The full screen mode (hide header and footer) in 4.12.12111 is the same for both epubs and kepubs. And, on all my devices, the top and bottom margins are the same for both formats. Or near enough that I can't see the difference.

Are you seeing something different to that? Can you see a difference in top margin for the two formats?

And for the record, calling the margins "huge" is a bit absurd. Especially when that word has been used for so long to describe the footer and header space. And the new margins look to be about a third of the size of the header and footer. They are a bit bigger than I would like, but by no means "huge".

[lightbulbjim]

Originally Posted by davidfor

One of us doesn't understand something.

Probably me .

Originally Posted by davidfor

The full screen mode that was available in 4.10.x and before was the same for both epubs and kepubs. But, there were some bugs that hit some kepubs and meant that the end of the line could be cut off. The top and bottom margins were identical for both epubs and kepubs.

The full screen mode (hide header and footer) in 4.12.12111 is the same for both epubs and kepubs. And, on all my devices, the top and bottom margins are the same for both formats. Or near enough that I can't see the difference.

Are you seeing something different to that? Can you see a difference in top margin for the two formats?

I have an H2O Edition 2 v1, and prior to this update I was running 4.10.11655. I had full screen mode enabled via the config file and had adjusted the margins to my liking (roughly 5mm on all four sides) via kobo_extra.css. I used epubs exclusively due to the issue where kepubs would get the right margin text chopped off. All was right with the world.

After installing 4.12.12111 (and with no other changes) the side margins were the same as before but the top and bottom were much larger. With the header and footer disabled via the new settings the top and bottom margins were the same size as when the header and footer were enabled, but there was just blank space there.

I switched over to kepub and it seems to have solved my problem. With the header and footer disabled via the new settings I can tweak the margins in the font screen to achieve more or less the same setup as I had on 4.10. I haven't observed the kepub chopped text problem on 4.12.

If you're really interested I can provide some screenshots, but I've already converted my library to kepub and it's working nicely .

The 4.12 problem with epubs may well have been my own fault. When adding books to my library I convert them all to epub and try and standardise the formatting as much as possible. Either my workflow or my kobo_extra.css may have been causing the problem.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by jlemonde

Thank you ! Is it safe then to type in "beta" instead of "Kobo" ? (lowercase?) What other changes would that imply ?

Originally Posted by geek1011

No other changes would be made (except fnac branding for fnac and walmart branding for walmartca).

My Aura was originally set to affiliate fnac and I hated that. Screen saver was a stupid fnac logo instead of the book cover. I believe affiliate Walmart behaves the same.

[Risto40]

FW 4.12 on Kobo Glo - when reading PDFs in landscape mode, then they have messed up page turns and position of previous and next page. Next or previous page is always positioned at bottom-left corner when zoomed in. So to read you first need to scroll up to the beginning of pace, and so each time you turn the page. I downgraded to 4.9.xxxx version which works much better for pdf-s in landscape mode and zoomed-in.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by Risto40

FW 4.12 on Kobo Glo - when reading PDFs in landscape mode, then they have messed up page turns and position of previous and next page. Next or previous page is always positioned at bottom-left corner when zoomed in. So to read you first need to scroll up to the beginning of pace, and so each time you turn the page. I downgraded to 4.9.xxxx version which works much better for pdf-s in landscape mode and zoomed-in.

Which landscape were you using? The Kobo one, or the pdf rotation?