Firmware 3.17.3 Discussion

[meeera]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Personally, I love it. I never found the popup very convenient and it was hard to get the right level. Now, I adjust the light depending on where I am.

Same. I have no idea what the majority need or want in terms of light adjustment, but I'd not be without it.

[Nick_1964]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Personally, I love it. I never found the popup very convenient and it was hard to get the right level. Now, I adjust the light depending on where I am.

Originally Posted by meeera

Same. I have no idea what the majority need or want in terms of light adjustment, but I'd not be without it.

I don't want to rant,be rude,or discuss someones "taste" or what he/she likes because that is really so personal, but it changed... maybe it is the i.r. on the Glo HD (but why doesn't it react like this in older versions if that was the fact) it is behaving much more direct now..even the slightest touch/movement change the light now..

[melovesflying]

I'm using an Aura and I found that adjusting the light using two fingers seems smoother now compared to 3.15. There was a slight lag before so I sometimes had to readjust several times before I get the amount of light I want. This lag seemed to have lessened greatly in the new firmware to the point that I sometimes don't notice it if it's there.

[isaacbh]

Maybe the answer is automatic brightness adjustment, like on a kindle voyage. But that would require a light sensor. Oh well, in a future device..

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Personally, I love it. I never found the popup very convenient and it was hard to get the right level. Now, I adjust the light depending on where I am.

And for myself, I never change the light level, I never have a need to. In sunlight, it just makes the page look whiter against the text, but it's still the perfect level to read with at night for me or even in a pitch black room. The one setting just stays at the same position and never gets changed for me. So having it hidden in a menu is perfect for anyone who uses the light the same as I do.

Originally Posted by isaacbh

Maybe the answer is automatic brightness adjustment, like on a kindle voyage. But that would require a light sensor. Oh well, in a future device..

No, a thousand times no, that would only make the situation worse. Unless they also give us a way to turn off the automatic feature, make it an option, then it would be fine as long as there's a choice. What's optimal for one person's eyes will not be suitable for another person.

The light needs to be fully adjustable and not according to what a device or a sensor thinks it should be.

[dordale]

I'm with Meera and Davidfor on this one--I love the ability to quickly adjust the brightness on my Aura HD by swiping next to the bezel-- use it frequently. I wouldn't want a light sensor--have a Voyage with that and can't seemto get it to work for me. Have ended up turning it off.

I would like the ability to quickly adjust font sizes on my Kobo as well though. Maybe with an up/down swipe on the right side of the bezel. Would be nice if these were user defined options and Kobo gave you the choice of whether you wanted to activate them or not.

[karlnapf]

sorry, my fault

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by dordale

I'm with Meera and Davidfor on this one--I love the ability to quickly adjust the brightness on my Aura HD by swiping next to the bezel-- use it frequently. I wouldn't want a light sensor--have a Voyage with that and can't seemto get it to work for me. Have ended up turning it off.

I would like the ability to quickly adjust font sizes on my Kobo as well though. Maybe with an up/down swipe on the right side of the bezel. Would be nice if these were user defined options and Kobo gave you the choice of whether you wanted to activate them or not.

And once I set my font size, just like the light brightness, I never change it. It's comfortable to read whether I'm wearing my contacts or glasses at that size.

Give us those choices to make the changes on the screen, but also give us the choice to enable those features or disable them, and Kobo could make everyone happy.

[Nick_1964]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

And once I set my font size, just like the light brightness, I never change it. It's comfortable to read whether I'm wearing my contacts or glasses at that size.

Give us those choices to make the changes on the screen, but also give us the choice to enable those features or disable them, and Kobo could make everyone happy.

Same here, and fully agree ! (once I set font and size,and light,it stays that way..for all books..)

[forster01]

in 3.17.3 css font-variant: small-caps still doesnt work. when they fix this BASIC bugg and some others html tag bugs then thay can think of fixing some o the issues considering touch screen driver ... etc
It is a bit embarrassing thay they didnt fix that basic html (css) bugs

Nonetheless im happy with my Aura HD (still loving it)

[eenk]

Unfortunately, I constantly experience kepubs with all kind of publisher "tweaks" so that I often need to readjust the font size from one kepub to another. I would be grateful if I just could leave my font settings untouched. So far I refrained from running every kepub through Calibre.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by forster01

in 3.17.3 css font-variant: small-caps still doesnt work.

I think it's the Adobe render software which doesn't support font-variant, rather than Kobo. It's been that way on every epub reader (Sony, Pocketbook, Kobo) I've owned in the last 6 years. We live in hope

If it matters a lot to you it's not particularly difficult to sideload a true small-caps font on the Kobo and reference it from standard epubs.

[forster01]

im using fakessmallcaps by writer2epub, but css syntax that is not supported makes me mad.....

also if one paragraph is formated with other embedded font, there is no way that in the middle of paragraph the tag <font style="font-family:serif;letter-spacing: 0px;">yyy</font> works (it doesnt), which is perfectly normal html tag...

I can post an epub sample if someone is iterested in in looking at it...

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by forster01

also if one paragraph is formated with other embedded font, there is no way that in the middle of paragraph the tag <font style="font-family:serif;letter-spacing: 0px;">yyy</font> works (it doesnt), which is perfectly normal html tag...

I can post an epub sample if someone is iterested in in looking at it...

<font> is not one of the tags that EPUB readers are required to support. Use <span> instead. e.g. <span style="font-family:serif;letter-spacing: 0px;">yyy</span>

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by forster01

im using fakessmallcaps by writer2epub, but css syntax that is not supported makes me mad.....

also if one paragraph is formated with other embedded font, there is no way that in the middle of paragraph the tag <font style="font-family:serif;letter-spacing: 0px;">yyy</font> works (it doesnt), which is perfectly normal html tag...

I can post an epub sample if someone is iterested in in looking at it...

The Adobe renderer doesn't support any of the css often used to create small-caps or pseudo-small-caps (font-variant, letter-spacing, text-transform). Whether that is Adobe's whim or whether these items are just not included in the Epub2 spec I'm really not sure. I can't see Kobo jumping through any hoops to change this situation as I suppose they're more interested in the kepub ACCESS renderer, which I believe does already support font-variant and letter-spacing (not sure about text-transform).

If you're trying to say that you can't use a true small-caps font for just part of a paragraph then you're wrong - I do it all the time for standard epubs. But you do have to use a css combination of font-family and @font-face to do it plus you also need to use the Kobo Patcher to prevent the Kobo force-overriding font-family for <p> tags. I can understand that most people won't bother doing this, but it is easily do-able for those who want it enough.