Plato: A document reader for PDF, ePUB, DjVu, etc.

[Tmpclara]

Thanks for the links to the documentation on CSS files.

I'm trying unsuccessfully to display the Noto Sans font in Medium.

What I tried :
- download the font with medium weight in the font folder
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans
font-path = "/mnt/onboard/.adds/plato/fonts" => Settings.toml

- copy css/epub.css to css/epub-user.css
add font-weight: medium;

h4, p, blockquote, dl {
	margin: 1.12em 0;
	font-weight: medium;

}

with "font-weight: bold;" it works, but with medium or 500, it doesn't work.

Do you have any tips for slightly increasing the weight of Noto Sans please?

Thank you for your help

[7ni4F_]

since 1.0 seems fast approaching, i'm curious as to what features will possibly be present in the release.

[escapecom]

So been using a kobo since a few years only just updated the firmware again after 3 years. Was weird the tutorials are still on the homescreen always. And ran into some issues trying to add 100+ books thru latests Calibre. They would always disapear after sending / Not get recognized by the reader.

Anyway decided to give Plato a try. Its awesome! Love the distracting free reading mode. Not hitting some touch gesture by accident. And it just looks so much better and is about 10 times faster wtf? Love Plato. Search is awesome too and no more tutorial screens taking up half the screen (yes I even changed the config file did not help lol).

In the invert mode with black background theres always a tiny white flash when turning pages not sure this is a kobo/libra2 issue but its not too bad..

Thx for this! I plan to read a lot more and do digital detox with some good books so this come in so handy!

[7ni4F_]

I know it's already ridiculous to ask but are there any more ways I can make the most out of my battery with Plato? It's already helped tremendously but if there's anything I can squeeze, I'll consider taking it.

Here's what I've done so far:

- I noticed that when on light mode, the device is pretty much prone to ghosting when reading EPUBs, so I configured the refresh rate to 0. Haven't come across any problems.
- Set warn levels from 10.0 to 25.0, and power-off to 20.0, I try to keep a 20% to 80% rule on any of my device.
- Front-light levels set to 20.0 during the day, and 15.0 at night.

I'd also like to know if I'm not doing this right, since I've been trying to read with KEPUBs since it promises to have better performance compared to normal EPUBs (which I assume would lead to longer battery). But I don't notice any difference, the page turn speeds are pretty much the same, I don't notice anything different with the formatting. I know Plato has its own EPUB renderer, so I wonder how that affects reading KEPUB. Thanks!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by 7ni4F_

I'd also like to know if I'm not doing this right, since I've been trying to read with KEPUBs since it promises to have better performance compared to normal EPUBs (which I assume would lead to longer battery). But I don't notice any difference, the page turn speeds are pretty much the same, I don't notice anything different with the formatting. I know Plato has its own EPUB renderer, so I wonder how that affects reading KEPUB. Thanks!

Kepub files are only for the Kobo webkit based renderer To any other ePub renderer, even the RMSDK renderer, the extra spans in the kepub file are null operations.

[7ni4F_]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Kepub files are only for the Kobo webkit based renderer To any other ePub renderer, even the RMSDK renderer, the extra spans in the kepub file are null operations.

If I understand that correctly, does it mean it doesn't work?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by 7ni4F_

If I understand that correctly, does it mean it doesn't work?

No; it just means that they serve no purpose. There |*might* be some subtle issues related to spacing / hyphenation / highlighting but thats it.

[7ni4F_]

Originally Posted by PeterT

No; it just means that they serve no purpose. There |*might* be some subtle issues related to spacing / hyphenation / highlighting but thats it.

I knew I wasn't going insane lol, thanks

[dlw]

I have a Kobo Clara BW, firmware 4.41.23145 (10/29/24), current Plato installed via the one-click shell. My problem is that Plato's "Quit" command restarts the Kobo, but eliminates the NickelMenu hamburger so that I can't run Plato again.

I think this problem began with the October firmware update, but I laid the Kobo aside for quite a while, so didn't notice it. Now I find that the problem is persistent: "Quit" removes NickleMenu, "Reboot" does not. Running the one-click shell with either the KFMon or the KOreader-Plato zip restores the menu with my additions.

The obvious work-around is to use "Reboot", but "Quit" should work.

Thanks for thinking about this.