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03-26-2020, 11:44 AM | #18 |
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It's not mentioned often, (actually, I think I'm the only one who ever brings it up..) but one thing I really want to be updated in Epub is the font fall back. With Epub (on Kobo,) if a book is using any characters or glyphs not included in your reading font, those characters are ignored. (you don't even see the classic blank square to even know there is something missing there.)
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03-26-2020, 03:22 PM | #21 |
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The other reason for sticking with ACCESS, as I understand it, is licensing costs. Doesn't matter how much functionality RMSDK adds... the licensing isn't going to go away.
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Kobo already have a version of RMSDK. They just need to update it to the latest version.
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When I first used kobo, some years ago, (aura hd)I found that sideloads of epub compared with sideloads of kepub (via the calibre plugin ) would show as different text sizes. I.e. if I put on 2 versions of the same book, one would default to much larger or smaller text.
Thus it made sense to pick only one format, find a preferred default font size setting on the device, and read all like that. I have not re checked this with my new kobos though. Is it still like that or could I have a mix of epub and kepub without having to change text settings. I did note that the forma with Dropbox integration works better for epub, because Dropbox does not understand that kepub is a valid book format |
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As far as I'm aware, the latest version of RMSDK uses Readium for it's epub3 compatibility, and therefore probably webkit to render, which is what ACCESS uses so...
So basically, the version of RMSDK that Kobo uses is basically the latest version of the 'legacy' renderer (with all the nice typography features), so there really isn't any point to upgrading. |
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No one does typography like Adobe, when they get their mind to it.
(Adobe Reader's font rendering is still ridiculously better than anything else out there). |
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