Beta testing calibre 4

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by gbm

Background image in order to change the image I had to clear the image then close the viewer before the image would change.

Thanks, fixed.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by gbm

On svg images inside an epub it has to be one image per html file and there can not be any other elements in the file e.g. an empty paragraph or div.
<div></div>

You mean for full screen image detection? Yes currently the heuristic is fairly simple. If you have examples of markup where it fails I can make it more robust.

[kovidgoyal]

@rjwse thanks was able to reproduce and fix the issue.

[nqk]

Dear Kovid,

1) I can't tap, using Chrome for Android, to move to the next xhml/html file (any epub). Moving to the previous file (chapter) is ok. On PC, using mouse-clicking, everything works fine. (Edit: this happens even in version 3.48)

2) Is it possible to support @namespace now (I'd like to hide epub:type="footnote")

3) Is it possible "long tap to select multiple texts" on Chrome for Android now?

[kovidgoyal]

@nqk

1) Send me a file that shows this behavior

2) Should be try it and see

3) no

[nqk]

1) Please see this file.

2) [epub|type~="footnote"] {display: none;} and @namespace epub "http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"; works in the Editor (the content is hidden), but not on the Viewer (content shown).

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by nqk

2) [epub|type~="footnote"] {display: none;} and @namespace epub "http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"; works in the Editor (the content is hidden), but not on the Viewer (content shown).

It would be great to have namespaced selectors.

[BetterRed]

See attachments, the zip contains the EPUB and the originating DOCX.

The images show the problem when viewed in order

I also note that the left and right edge widgets with the previous and next arrows are not the same width - left is wider than the right.

BR

[BetterRed]

On reflection, I suspect that the new viewer is treating the first page of my EPUBs as covers, none of my epubs have covers, I remove them with the Modify plugin.

Does that explain why I am not seeing the margins on the 'real' pages ?

BR

[kovidgoyal]

@BR: Yes if there is no cover in the EPUB, as per the EPUB spec, the first page of the EPUB has to be treated as the cover. The viewer is designed to always show a cover, so a rendering of the first page will be shown as the cover, in such cases. It's not quite ideal and I would actually prefer to show an autogenerated cover in such cases, but its complicated for technical reasons having to do with how awful format EPUB is, so will probably get to it sometime later.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by nqk

2) [epub|type~="footnote"] {display: none;} and @namespace epub "http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"; works in the Editor (the content is hidden), but not on the Viewer (content shown).

Use the inspect tool to see what that attribute actually looks like and write a selector to match it. As far as I know the viewer reserves namespaces when processing HTML. Or send me a file showing this behavior and I will take a look.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@BR: Yes if there is no cover in the EPUB, as per the EPUB spec, the first page of the EPUB has to be treated as the cover. The viewer is designed to always show a cover, so a rendering of the first page will be shown as the cover, in such cases. It's not quite ideal and I would actually prefer to show an autogenerated cover in such cases, but its complicated for technical reasons having to do with how awful format EPUB is, so will probably get to it sometime later.

The old viewer had no trouble with coverless epubs, just started at the first page of text.

The Check Book tool in the calibre editor doesn't complain nor does the Epubcheck plugin in the Sigil editor. If a cover is mandatory would have expected one or both of them to complain.

I discovered what happened to the margins, they got reset to default settings - I must have clicked wrong button at sometime.

I really miss font resize buttons, and search.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

A cover is not mandatory, if there is no cover, the rendered first page must be used as a cover, which is what the viewer is doing.

And there is both search and font size changing controls so not sure what you are missing.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

And there is both search and font size changing controls so not sure what you are missing.

Sight of them mainly

I used to get an idea of how far I was into a book from the scroll bar button, Now I occasionally see a % read in the 'status' line but most of the time I don't. So that's another thing I miss.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Use the inspect tool to see what that attribute actually looks like and write a selector to match it. As far as I know the viewer reserves namespaces when processing HTML. Or send me a file showing this behavior and I will take a look.

In fact, IIRC epub:type="footnote" gets mapped to role="doc-footnote" as in anycase the EPUB committee at some point deprecated the epub namespace and replaced it with role. God knows if they rolled it back again or not, I gave up on them a while ago.