Firmware 5.0.175773

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

Isn’t kobo a Canadian company?

Adobe is who I'm dissing.
Kobo, being Canadian owned by Japanese are making an effort.

Adobe Inc
Founded December 1982; 42 years ago
Mountain View, California, U.S.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

Isn’t kobo a Canadian company?

I suspect @quoth was referring to Adobe not Kobo since we were discussing ADE and its RMSDK cousin.

Once again, should have read to the end of the thread before posting a reply. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[rantanplan]

Sure, Adobe is one of the worst companies out there.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I suspect @quoth was referring to Adobe not Kobo since we were discussing ADE and its RMSDK cousin.

Once again, should have read to the end of the thread before posting a reply. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Originally Posted by rantanplan

Sure, Adobe is one of the worst companies out there.

Ha! No argument!

Though at least the PDF spec got "opened".

[Falkor]

Originally Posted by Falkor

I figured out what the problem with full page images is. Apparently SVG dimensions in percent are not supported. Setting the height to "calc (100%–0em)" works fine, presumably because the resulting height is in em and not in %.

Turned out this only helped for few images. Apparently there is a difference between 100% and 100%-0em.

Another problem that may keep full page images from working properly is the lack of support for the break-inside, break-before and break-after properties..

[Falkor]

5.13.239318 is out. Now full page images work. Font rendering was much better in 5.12, though.

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by Falkor

5.13.239318 is out. Now full page images work. Font rendering was much better in 5.12, though.

1 step forward, 2 steps back.

[rantanplan]

I did a quick test (cross post from https://www.e-reader-forum.de/t/firm...239318.162135/)

Lesen

• Zuletzt gelesene Bücher öffnen sich schneller
• Nach der Nutzung der Fortschrittsleiste zum Blättern kannst du über die neue Funktion "Zurück zur Seite" oder die schwarzen Punkte auf der Fortschrittsleiste zur vorherigen Seite zurückkehren
• Wenn die Text-Ausrichtung aktiv ist, werden lange Wörter automatisch getrennt
• Antippbare Links innerhalb des Buches werden jetzt unterstrichen dargestellt

Bluetooth aktivieren:

• Bluetooth-Einstellungen sind jetzt direkt über die Statusleiste erreichbar

I can confirm that once books have been opened, they open more quickly afterwards. This remains persistent even if the device is restarted. However, if you change the text settings in the book, the book will take 10 seconds to open again the next time, and then every subsequent opening will be faster. Apparently, certain attributes are now cached for the book.

What is not described is that when you change text settings in the book, a “Loading” dialog now appears, and you don't have to wonder why the device is now frozen.

The options for turning pages in the book are there, addressing a regression in the 5.x firmware.

Word wrapping still doesn't work for me, despite the fixed text alignment.


The Bluetooth settings are now available in the status bar. This brings the 5.x firmware in line with the 4.x firmware. It does what it's supposed to do.

The bug where the text in toast messages goes beyond the edges of the text box has still not been fixed. For example, when you start manual synchronization, the notification text extends beyond the frame. Since this does not happen in the “Loading” dialog, my guess is that the text size in all UI elements was simply set to a default and not checked, but when the “Loading” dialog was built, it was actually checked and implemented correctly in this case.

I've also had the first device crash after the update. So that still happens now and then.

[Falkor]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

I did a quick test (cross post from https://www.e-reader-forum.de/t/firm...239318.162135/)


I can confirm that once books have been opened, they open more quickly afterwards. This remains persistent even if the device is restarted. However, if you change the text settings in the book, the book will take 10 seconds to open again the next time, and then every subsequent opening will be faster. Apparently, certain attributes are now cached for the book.

What is not described is that when you change text settings in the book, a “Loading” dialog now appears, and you don't have to wonder why the device is now frozen.

The options for turning pages in the book are there, addressing a regression in the 5.x firmware.

Word wrapping still doesn't work for me, despite the fixed text alignment.

You have to set it to justify, exit the book and re-open it.

I hadn't even noticed that this was added. It wasn't mentioned in the release notes in Kobo mode.

Apparently the CSS option to enable hyphenation is either not supported or different from the one in 4.x.

I use the following—works fine in 4.x:

  -epub-hyphens: auto;
  -webkit-hyphens: auto;
  hyphens: auto;

Originally Posted by rantanplan

1 step forward, 2 steps back.

Yeah, so annoying.
With some fonts the difference is very noticeable. Times new roman at smallish font size looks like a mess now. Some strokes look too thin, some to thick. It was surprisingly good in 5.12. Better than in RMSDK or 4.X's kepub renderer.

Originally Posted by rantanplan

I've also had the first device crash after the update. So that still happens now and then.

Haven't managed to crash it yet, but I keep crashing the reading engine after changing settings and turning pages.

[Falkor]

Here is a sample comparing 5.12 and 5.13. There difference at small font sizes is quite dramtic. Larger sizes seem to be identical.

[rantanplan]

That does not look good at all.

[Falkor]

I’m not sure if it's oversharpened or just too thin. It sure doesn't help that the font weight slider is still broken in 5.13.