10-12-2021, 12:43 PM | #616 |
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I've been having some trouble with MapleRead SE lately. It won't always display an epub file's fonts. I can't find out when it will or won't. I'm reading one particular book. In Calibre's viewer and editing preview, the book looks fine. I'm not doing anything fancy. Just a font for the chapter name and first letter. I tried it on iBooks on the same iPad I use MR on and it looks fine, and on my phone in iBooks. I bug checked in Calibre and ran it through a few online validators. Fine. Tried other epubs with different fonts. Fine. It's just this one book.
Well, it's not just this one book. I've noticed lately if a book's files say like "body class="calibre" and calibre is defined as having ... let's say adobe garamond, it won't actually display AG in each p class in the book unless I declare AG in each p class. But not always. Sometimes. So it's two problems. One is minor, in that a general body declaration doesn't always work but I can work around that by defining a font in each item that needs it in the css. Minor annoyance, but fixable and also new. The other is this one epub file, which looks fine everywhere else will NOT show embedded fonts, be they h, p, span, whatever. It works on other devices and apps and other epubs with fonts work in my MR. So there is something about *this* file that MR hates. And if I have to do a weird workaround like I have to for the body class, that's fine. But I can't figure out what it is. Any ideas? Does OTF vs TTF matter? That's the only thing I can think of. I might just try to make a new book in calibre and copy/paste/import parts of the old book into the new one as a test, but that's tedious. I don't really care too much that this crappy book I will probably never reread again doesn't display properly, but it's something I'm coming across more and more and I want to figure out how to identify something that is buggy but doesn't trigger bug checks. |
11-01-2021, 07:25 PM | #617 |
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Does anyone know why it is necessary to click "Edit", then scan for OPDS servers, then click "Edit" again to see the OPDS servers? This behaviour seems redundant where there could simply be the scan button instead of having to click on Edit twice.
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11-02-2021, 03:20 PM | #618 |
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I've recently started reading on my iPad mini5 and am trying various apps. Mapleread in Modern Book format looks great except I can't figure out how to change the size of the header and footer type. I've searched! Is it possible?
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11-26-2021, 07:27 PM | #619 |
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Mapleread forum?
I decided to use my new iPad mini for book reading instead of dedicated reading hardware (Kindle). After noting that Marvin had not been updated for 4 years, I have been using Mapelread. So far pretty positive.
Is there a forum (on mobileread or somewhere else) where Mapleread users congregate?? So far I can't find. thx, . |
11-27-2021, 11:59 AM | #620 |
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Don’t know about Mapleread… they should have their own website… but don’t give up on Marvin because it hasn’t been updated in awhile… not necessary to “update” something that just works - “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
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11-27-2021, 02:14 PM | #621 | |
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I think there should be a Mapleread forum... If I could figure out the best place to suggest I would do so... . |
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11-29-2021, 07:52 AM | #622 | |
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As for not “paying” for it… you can download and use this fully functional software for free, forever… no subscriptions, no accounts required, no disabled features… If you want to start a mapleread forum on MR then PM a moderator (anyone with a green colored name) or email the MR admins. Make your case to them and if they agree they can get it setup rather quickly. Cheers! Last edited by Turtle91; 11-29-2021 at 07:55 AM. |
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12-05-2021, 07:32 PM | #623 | |
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What's the point of burying this thread on MapleRead app inside Marvin forum? Why not moving it back to Apple Devices forum? |
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12-05-2021, 09:47 PM | #624 | |
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12-05-2021, 09:50 PM | #625 |
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When I was looking at replacements for iBooks on my iDevices, I looked at Marvin but it has a major flaw that made it DOA for me: no PDF support.
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12-06-2021, 07:58 AM | #626 |
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That’s not a flaw - That’s a feature!
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12-06-2021, 10:24 AM | #627 |
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Lol, kinda true for me.
My EPUBs are mostly novels and fanfics while my PDFs are mostly technical books and work related documents. Hence, I like having the segregation of EPUB on Marvin and PDF on GoodReader. With that said, this MapleRead thread really is better suited to the Apple Devices forum. Either that or change the Marvin forum to iOS Reader Apps. |
12-06-2021, 12:37 PM | #628 | |
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12-06-2021, 03:33 PM | #629 | |
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Bit OT: Spoiler:
Another thing, I don't know how decent PDF markup is on MapleRead but on GoodReader, it's really good. GoodReader also allows bidirectional sync with Dropbox (amongst others) so any annotations I make on the iPad+Apple Pencil are easily copied to my PCs. For my use-case, EPUB = personal consumption, PDF = work/productivity so I actually do have different requirements for the apps used. |
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12-25-2021, 11:03 AM | #630 |
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Why is this in the Marvin forum, may I ask?
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