Kobo Bug thread - Page 58

DNSB · 03-11-2017, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why would you want to muck up the ePub by replacing all of the styles?

In the dim distant past, there was an issue with the version of RMSDK used by Kobo not being able to modify font sizes. The quick and dirty fix for it was a tool called KoboEpubFixer which I seem to remember you complaining about since it was capable of removing the stylesheet(s) from the epub. The results weren't very pretty but at least you could read the blasted text.

Martina Schein · 03-17-2017, 07:17 AM

Since the first or second 4 version of the Kobo firmware, there are no more curly braces - { } - on the keyboard.
With the Aura One I can select these curly braces by a longer tip on the round or square braces. However, this is not possible with H2O and Glo HD. Both readers have the new keyboard layout.

I need these curly braces for our wifi key.

It would be nice, if the selection possibility, which offers the Aura One, in a coming firmware with the other models is possible.

rogerinnyc · 03-19-2017, 08:29 AM

Someone started a separate thread below, but it's worth a mention here. After one of the multiple firmware revisions over the past month or so, the red charging light on the Aura One no longer changes to blue once your unit is fully charged. It just sits there, plugged in, and stays red.

Namenlos · 03-20-2017, 09:09 PM

Left right arrows for chapter forward/backward don't work and jump to the first one in the xhtml file. Also the wrong chapter is displayed and the checkmark in the overview is on the wrong chapter. Chapters are generated in Sigil and FlightCrew finds no errors.

toc.ncx

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE ncx PUBLIC "-//NISO//DTD ncx 2005-1//EN"
 "http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx-2005-1.dtd"><ncx version="2005-1" xmlns="http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx/">
  <head>
    <meta content="{59B4E70D-E7D8-4591-859A-90C974AEA3FD}" name="dtb:uid"/>
    <meta content="2" name="dtb:depth"/>
    <meta content="0" name="dtb:totalPageCount"/>
    <meta content="0" name="dtb:maxPageNumber"/>
  </head>
  <docTitle>
    <text>finereaderdoc FR roh2</text>
  </docTitle>
  <navMap>
    <navPoint id="navPoint-1" playOrder="1">
      <navLabel>
        <text>authorpage</text>
      </navLabel>
      <content src="Text/main.xhtml"/>
    </navPoint>
    <navPoint id="navPoint-2" playOrder="2">
      <navLabel>
        <text>titlepage</text>
      </navLabel>
      <content src="Text/main-1.xhtml"/>
    </navPoint>
    <navPoint id="navPoint-3" playOrder="3">
      <navLabel>
        <text>ERSTER TEIL</text>
      </navLabel>
      <content src="Text/Erster_Teil.xhtml"/>
      <navPoint id="navPoint-4" playOrder="4">
        <navLabel>
          <text>1</text>
        </navLabel>
        <content src="Text/Erster_Teil.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_1"/>
      </navPoint>
      <navPoint id="navPoint-5" playOrder="5">
        <navLabel>
          <text>2</text>
        </navLabel>
        <content src="Text/Erster_Teil.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_2"/>
      </navPoint>
      <navPoint id="navPoint-6" playOrder="6">
        <navLabel>
          <text>3</text>
        </navLabel>
        <content src="Text/Erster_Teil.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_3"/>
      </navPoint>
[…] (cut here)

Erster_Teil.xhtml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><meta name="charset" content="UTF-8"/>
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../Styles/main.css" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">ERSTER TEIL</span></h1>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="../Images/main-2.png" alt=""/></div>
<h2 id="sigil_toc_id_1" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">1</span></h2>
<p>
[…]
<h2 id="sigil_toc_id_2" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><i>2</i></span></h2>
[…]

Kobo Mini latest firmware (4.xx66) But this was a problem even in 3.19 times and probably before. I am not sure if that is a problem on my epub file.

chrisridd · 03-21-2017, 03:53 AM

I think it is a known limitation that Kobo requires each chapter is in a separate file.

You should be able to easily split the text into multiple files using Sigil.

Rev. Bob · 03-21-2017, 04:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Namenlos

Left right arrows for chapter forward/backward don't work and jump to the first one in the xhtml file. Also the wrong chapter is displayed and the checkmark in the overview is on the wrong chapter. Chapters are generated in Sigil and FlightCrew finds no errors.

Code:

    <meta content="{59B4E70D-E7D8-4591-859A-90C974AEA3FD}" name="dtb:uid"/>
    <meta content="2" name="dtb:depth"/>
    <meta content="0" name="dtb:totalPageCount"/>
    <meta content="0" name="dtb:maxPageNumber"/>

I see two red flags here:

1. Why are there {braces} around the UID? Are they present in the OPF's identifier value?
2. Unless there's nesting in the TOC, which your sample does not indicate, the depth should be 1, not 2. (Yes, I know Calibre assigns a value of 2 to a flat TOC. Calibre's wrong; the EPUB spec is quite clear on that front.)

Splitting chapters into different files is also good practice, but it shouldn't be mandatory.

davidfor · 03-21-2017, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisridd

I think it is a known limitation that Kobo requires each chapter is in a separate file.

You should be able to easily split the text into multiple files using Sigil.

That restriction is only for kepubs. And the navigation works. It's things like the page count and exactly

There is a problem with navigation in epubs with multiple chapters per file. The ToC will show the first entry in the file as the current chapter. Selecting one of the others will go to the correct place. And using the next and previous chapter doesn't work properly. Next will go to the first chapter in the next file. Previous will go to the first chapter in the current file.

I can't remember when this bug turned up. I'm pretty sure it was before 3.19.

Namenlos · 03-21-2017, 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rev. Bob

[…]1. Why are there {braces} around the UID? Are they present in the OPF's identifier value?
2. Unless there's nesting in the TOC, which your sample does not indicate, the depth should be 1, not 2. (Yes, I know Calibre assigns a value of 2 to a flat TOC. Calibre's wrong; the EPUB spec is quite clear on that front.)[…]

1. I have no idea why finereader generated that this way. I used finereader and cleared the epub up in sigil.

opf:

Code:

[…]
<package version="2.0" unique-identifier="uuid" xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
[…]
    <dc:identifier id="uuid">{59B4E70D-E7D8-4591-859A-90C974AEA3FD}</dc:identifier>
[…]

2. This is a nested TOC, three parts and 31 chapters.

Calibre did not touch the file at all. Just Finereader and cleanups and improving layout in Sigil.

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

[…]There is a problem with navigation in epubs with multiple chapters per file. The ToC will show the first entry in the file as the current chapter. Selecting one of the others will go to the correct place. And using the next and previous chapter doesn't work properly. Next will go to the first chapter in the next file. Previous will go to the first chapter in the current file.

I can't remember when this bug turned up. I'm pretty sure it was before 3.19.

This is exactly my problem, but good to know this is a bug on Kobos side and not mine.

ssurneed · 03-28-2017, 01:58 PM

Since the moment of the purchase Aura One has found the following bug on all the firmware. In the epub books, the indents on the right are larger than the indents on the left.

In fb2 books, indents are the same.

I checked a lot of files. The bug is repeated 100% on all epub books.

epub

Spoiler:

fb2

Spoiler:

davidfor · 03-28-2017, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssurneed

Since the moment of the purchase Aura One has found the following bug on all the firmware. In the epub books, the indents on the right are larger than the indents on the left.

In fb2 books, indents are the same.

I checked a lot of files. The bug is repeated 100% on all epub books.

Sorry, I don't see this. The margins I see for all epubs I have are even. Are you using the same stylesheet for these books? If so, you should check that it doesn't set the margins differently on each side.

For the FB2 format, I can't comment. I don't think I've ever seen one. I can try converting to one in calibre when I get home. If that is what you are doing, or converting from FB2 to epub, you might want to check the conversion options in case they are setting the margins.

ssurneed · 03-29-2017, 02:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

Sorry, I don't see this. The margins I see for all epubs I have are even. Are you using the same stylesheet for these books? If so, you should check that it doesn't set the margins differently on each side.

I do not know whether I use stylesheet or not.

Now I reset Kobo Aura One to factory settings. After updated to 4.3.8966. I downloaded epub books, made the "Margins" setting minimal.

I see...

Spoiler:

The problem becomes noticeable when the "Margins" setting is minimal or close to the minimum.

Terisa de morgan · 03-29-2017, 02:46 AM

Do you know which settings your book have? Because perhaps the problem is not the reader but the book.

ssurneed · 03-29-2017, 02:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Do you know which settings your book have? Because perhaps the problem is not the reader but the book.

Lay out any of your book in the epub format, I'll try to open it.

ssurneed · 03-29-2017, 03:31 AM

Asked a friend with a book Kobo Aura HD to check the bug. He sent me a photo...

Spoiler:

P.S. We read different books.

JSWolf · 03-29-2017, 07:03 AM

How does the book look if you view it in ADE and Calibre's eBook viewer?

03-17-2017, 07:17 AM	#857
Martina Schein eBook-Reader-Fan Posts: 175 Karma: 444178 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Saarbruecken / DE Device: Kobo Aura H2O 2nd Edition	Since the first or second 4 version of the Kobo firmware, there are no more curly braces - { } - on the keyboard. With the Aura One I can select these curly braces by a longer tip on the round or square braces. However, this is not possible with H2O and Glo HD. Both readers have the new keyboard layout. I need these curly braces for our wifi key. It would be nice, if the selection possibility, which offers the Aura One, in a coming firmware with the other models is possible. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Martina Schein; 03-17-2017 at 07:21 AM. Reason: Supplement

03-19-2017, 08:29 AM	#858
rogerinnyc Addict Posts: 227 Karma: 944808 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Kobo Libra 2, Forma and Aura One; Kindle Voyage; Galaxy Note 10	Aura One Blue Light Someone started a separate thread below, but it's worth a mention here. After one of the multiple firmware revisions over the past month or so, the red charging light on the Aura One no longer changes to blue once your unit is fully charged. It just sits there, plugged in, and stays red.

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chrisridd Guru Posts: 929 Karma: 2146660 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: London, UK Device: Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura ONE, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	I think it is a known limitation that Kobo requires each chapter is in a separate file. You should be able to easily split the text into multiple files using Sigil.

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ssurneed Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2017 Device: Kobo Aura One	Since the moment of the purchase Aura One has found the following bug on all the firmware. In the epub books, the indents on the right are larger than the indents on the left. In fb2 books, indents are the same. I checked a lot of files. The bug is repeated 100% on all epub books. epub Spoiler: fb2 Spoiler:

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