Calibre support for the Kobo e-reader - Page 2

backlyt · 05-07-2010, 03:00 PM

awesome work man, Thank you so much

taming · 05-07-2010, 03:50 PM

I just installed the new version with support for Kobo. Thank you so much! I don't know muh about the fine points of using Calibre, but being able to upload to Kobo so easily and manage my library this way is terrific!

kovidgoyal · 05-07-2010, 04:37 PM

Glad to hear that the driver works, always dicey writing drivers for devices you dont posses.

Stinger · 05-08-2010, 10:43 AM

Deleting the stylesheet.css to get font scaling is a pretty dirty solutions. While it does enable scaling, I loose all the pretty formatting that Calibre preserved (Justification, paragraph indents, etc).

Do we have any other options available to us until the Kobo team fixes this?
Could Calibre be altered, so (for now) it outputs a stylesheet that is Kobo font scaling compliant?
Could anyone point out what we need to manually remove from the stylesheet to get font scaling, but preserve the formatting?

darkadept · 05-08-2010, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stinger

Deleting the stylesheet.css to get font scaling is a pretty dirty solutions. While it does enable scaling, I loose all the pretty formatting that Calibre preserved (Justification, paragraph indents, etc).

Do we have any other options available to us until the Kobo team fixes this?
Could Calibre be altered, so (for now) it outputs a stylesheet that is Kobo font scaling compliant?
Could anyone point out what we need to manually remove from the stylesheet to get font scaling, but preserve the formatting?

I've been editing the stylesheet and removing the font-size lines. It's worked for me so far.

kovidgoyal · 05-08-2010, 11:13 AM

@Stinger: If you disable font size rescaling in calibre, that should help with most books.

Stinger · 05-08-2010, 11:42 AM

Awsome!

While both the above solutions worked for me (thanks darkadept), clicking a single check-mark as suggested by Kovidgoyal is much easier than manually editing all my stylesheets' (thanks kovidgoyal).

Now onto a new question:

I took a hint from Calibre help docs and would like to try and reduce the page margins a bit to reduce page flips and battery drain. However, my Kobo doesn't seem to observe the margin configuration I setup in Calibre.
At this point I'm thinking this is Kobo's problem again, that it doesn't read margin info from the ebook and just has it hardcoded into itself.
Has anyone been able to change the page margins?

My assumption is inline with the Kobo marketing strategy of getting a functional, barebones eReader out to the masses first, and then upgrading the firmware to add these "extra" features in later. I'm cool with that, just trying to figure out what Kobo is capable of at this point

jcornet · 05-08-2010, 11:59 AM

Yep, works great on my mac: the reader is detected, I can send epubs and pdfs, eject it, etc...

Thank you so much for making this happen so fast !

JCSullivan · 05-08-2010, 02:44 PM

I've d'loaded and installed V0.6.52 but the Kobo doesn't seem to be listed in the Page setup of preferences.
I ran the Welcome Wizard and the KOBO is not on the list.

Do you need to reboot or something?
Thanks.

EDIT:
I'm on W7

kovidgoyal · 05-08-2010, 07:11 PM

You're fine just plugin your KObo and it will be detected.

JCSullivan · 05-09-2010, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You're fine just plugin your KObo and it will be detected.

Hi Kovid, first of all Thank you for the software it is really a wonderful piece of work.

I have a funny feeling the new version did NOT install because top right says version 0.6.51 by Kovid Goyal and in red it says New Version 0.65.2

EDIT
Reinstalled and I think everything is working correctly.

Thanks again.

05-08-2010, 10:43 AM	#19
Stinger Asha'man Posts: 335 Karma: 844 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada Device: Kobo	Deleting the stylesheet.css to get font scaling is a pretty dirty solutions. While it does enable scaling, I loose all the pretty formatting that Calibre preserved (Justification, paragraph indents, etc). Do we have any other options available to us until the Kobo team fixes this? Could Calibre be altered, so (for now) it outputs a stylesheet that is Kobo font scaling compliant? Could anyone point out what we need to manually remove from the stylesheet to get font scaling, but preserve the formatting? Last edited by Stinger; 05-08-2010 at 10:53 AM.

05-08-2010, 02:44 PM	#24
JCSullivan Chief Inspector Gamache Posts: 123 Karma: 12 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada eh! Device: Viewsonic	I've d'loaded and installed V0.6.52 but the Kobo doesn't seem to be listed in the Page setup of preferences. I ran the Welcome Wizard and the KOBO is not on the list. Do you need to reboot or something? Thanks. EDIT: I'm on W7 Last edited by JCSullivan; 05-08-2010 at 02:50 PM.

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05-07-2010, 03:00 PM	#16
backlyt Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: kobo ereader	awesome work man, Thank you so much

05-07-2010, 03:50 PM	#17
taming Trying for calm & polite Posts: 4,012 Karma: 9455193 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mostly in Canada Device: kobo original, WiFI, Touch, Glo, and Aura	I just installed the new version with support for Kobo. Thank you so much! I don't know muh about the fine points of using Calibre, but being able to upload to Kobo so easily and manage my library this way is terrific!

05-07-2010, 04:37 PM	#18
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Glad to hear that the driver works, always dicey writing drivers for devices you dont posses.

05-08-2010, 11:13 AM	#21
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Stinger: If you disable font size rescaling in calibre, that should help with most books.

05-08-2010, 11:42 AM	#22
Stinger Asha'man Posts: 335 Karma: 844 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada Device: Kobo	Awsome! While both the above solutions worked for me (thanks darkadept), clicking a single check-mark as suggested by Kovidgoyal is much easier than manually editing all my stylesheets' (thanks kovidgoyal). Now onto a new question: I took a hint from Calibre help docs and would like to try and reduce the page margins a bit to reduce page flips and battery drain. However, my Kobo doesn't seem to observe the margin configuration I setup in Calibre. At this point I'm thinking this is Kobo's problem again, that it doesn't read margin info from the ebook and just has it hardcoded into itself. Has anyone been able to change the page margins? My assumption is inline with the Kobo marketing strategy of getting a functional, barebones eReader out to the masses first, and then upgrading the firmware to add these "extra" features in later. I'm cool with that, just trying to figure out what Kobo is capable of at this point

05-08-2010, 11:59 AM	#23
jcornet Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Kobo e-reader	Yep, works great on my mac: the reader is detected, I can send epubs and pdfs, eject it, etc... Thank you so much for making this happen so fast !

05-08-2010, 07:11 PM	#25
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You're fine just plugin your KObo and it will be detected.

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