04-19-2013, 09:09 PM | #1 |
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[Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver
THIS PLUGIN IS BEING INTERMITTENTLY DEVELOPED! FEATURE REQUESTS AND BUG REPORTS MAY TAKE A FEW DAYS TO BE REPLIED TO.
This plugin enables some additional features for all Kobo devices supported by calibre from the Kobo Touch onwards. ePub books processed with this plugin will be rendered using Kobo's internal kepub renderer instead of the standard ePub renderer. Please see the README file for the most current details. I will try to keep this post up to date, but the README is always up to date. The main benefits of using the kepub renderer (which some may prefer not to have) are:
You are encouraged to install these two plugins as well, to ensure KePub metadata is correctly processed when sending to your Kobo device:
Usage To use this plugin after installing:
Special Notes
Installation Directions Open Preferences -> Plugins -> Get new plugins and install the 'Kobo Touch Extended' plugin. You may also download the attached zip file and install the plugin manually, then restart calibre as described in the Introduction to Plugins thread. [/SPOILER] Contributing Decided you want to contribute to the development of this plugin? Awesome! If you want to contribute to the development of this plugin, you have many options:
Although I'm generally perfectly happy to discuss possible issues here, any issues sent to me through any means other than the Github bug tracker (including email, PM, etc.) may be silently ignored. This is not because I don't care! It's because I have a terrible memory, the Github issue tracker is my "to-do list" for this plugin, and there's been instances where I've seen a post or PM here and promptly forgotten all about it until I happened to stumble across the post again later. If you aren't sure if you have an issue, feel free to post here and we can work together to decide if you need to make a new Github issue or not. If you are sure you have an issue, or if you have an error or exception from calibre, post a new issue. It isn't necessary to post here when you make a new issue, I get notified of all new bugs and I check the list regularly. The worst that could possibly happen on Github is the same that could happen here: I'll tell you that it's not a bug and you'll have the opportunity to convince me otherwise! Version History Spoiler:
Last edited by jgoguen; Yesterday at 12:06 AM. Reason: Fix the github link. |
04-20-2013, 04:28 AM | #2 |
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thanks. When using this plugin, is the title bar displayed when reading, as usual with kepubs but not with epubs?
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04-20-2013, 05:21 AM | #3 |
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The title bar is another kepub feature. I don't believe I can disable it.
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04-20-2013, 11:43 AM | #4 |
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So just out of curiosity, Calibre plugins are entirely python-based (just making sure I'm not missing anything)? If so I could definitely contribute code from time to time. Seems like container.py is the part Calibre talks to and driver.py does the heavy lifting?
The plugin is great; so far I've had no troubles with annotations or bookmarks, but that's probably just as likely to be luck of the draw with my .epub structures. Also, thanks for so quickly addressing the issue with car/cbz files. |
04-20-2013, 07:25 PM | #5 |
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Yes, so far as I'm aware, plugins are purely Python. For me, container.py is the interface to the unpacked ePub structure, and it's where I do most of the book modification work, and driver.py does the rest of the heavy lifting. There is some modification (hyphenation mostly) outside container.py but I plan to work on moving that around later.
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04-22-2013, 06:00 AM | #6 |
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How do I disable the main Kobo driver when I am installing this plugin?
Calibre tells me it cannot be disabled. Am I selecting the correct one to disable? |
04-22-2013, 08:38 AM | #7 |
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Extended plugin question
Okay, so I've downloaded the kobo extended plugin. How do I use it? Will the resulting kepubs say kepub? Will I be able to use the kepub on my iPad/iPhone?
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Then, in calibre open Preferences -> Plugins and look under the Device Interface Plugins list for Kobo Reader Device Interface and KoboTouch. For each one, select it and click the Enable/Disable plugin button. As long as your device isn't plugged in, they should be disabled. |
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04-22-2013, 08:54 AM | #9 | |
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On the Kobo device, yes the modified books are identified as KOBO EPUB while unmodified ePub files are identified as EPUB. If you mean in calibre, then no they aren't identified in any way because the kepub version is never saved to your calibre library. I don't know if you can use the generated kepubs on your iOS app. I don't see why not, but it's not something that I've tested. If you would like to try it and report back on how it worked, there may be other people who would also like to know. |
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04-22-2013, 09:31 AM | #11 |
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04-22-2013, 09:47 AM | #12 |
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This plugin explicitly only supports the Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, and Kobo Mini. I don't have an Aura to test with so any updates to my plugin will have to be done by someone else with an Aura, or someone will have to send me an Aura.
EDIT: And by "explicitly only supports", I mean that this plugin will completely fail to recognize any other devices. Once the mainline Kobo driver includes Aura support, you will have to use the mainline driver and not my plugin to use calibre to send books over. Last edited by jgoguen; 04-22-2013 at 09:51 AM. |
04-22-2013, 12:10 PM | #13 |
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Thank you for these instructions. I have now got it to work.
I am very pleased that the problematic fonts (Nickel etc) are now working as they should and not showing italics as regular bold. I am also pleased that my own installed fonts are showing their true weight instead of appearing anaemic and thin. The Advanced option is not available but it's no matter because my own fonts display their weight and I can still adjust font-size, line spaces and margins. I'm not sure about the page numbers only showing number of pages left in a chapter but I can live with this because of the other advantages. I love that the title of the book is displayed in the header. So one very happy customer here, Thank you. Last edited by Moonraker; 04-22-2013 at 12:12 PM. |
04-26-2013, 10:02 AM | #14 |
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Hello jgoguen,
Does the plugin work with the new kobo driver of Calibre 0.9.28 ? What's new for 0.9.28 : Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Aura HD and firmware version 2.5.0 Thanks |
04-26-2013, 10:06 AM | #15 |
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Thank you for this. I see looking at Calibre, I have Kobo Reader Device Interface and KoboTouch plugins. Should I be disabling both of those?
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