Clara 2E Badly formatted epub?

[Jane Eyre]

Hi.
I bought from kobo store a book with a lot of images and notes. It is strange, I don't know why, but this time the notes don't appear as usual in the window and pictures can't be zoomed.
The result is quite discomforting, it doesn't act like a kepub file, though it is in fact, as I checked.
Can I do anything?

[DNSB]

What is the title/author of the book? It's likely that a sample would show the same issue to make it easier to troubleshoot.

Your comments suggest that it is not a kepub but rather an ePub. If you open it with Sigil or calibre's ebook editor, do you see the mass of Kobo spans that you should?

The spans will look something like this:

<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="koboSpan" id="kobo.1.1">

Near the start of each file, you may also see items such as:

<!-- kobo-style -->
<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="text/javascript" src="../js/kobo.js"/>
<style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="text/css" id="koboSpanStyle">.koboSpan { -webkit-text-combine: inherit; }</style>

You can also try running the ePub through kepubify or using the KoboTouchExtended driver from calibre.

[Jane Eyre]

Well, how should I open a kepub file? Calibre doesn't do it, it just converts.
Anyway, kobo itself downloads a kobo epub format, but when I download the same book from kobo store, I get a DRM-free epub.

The book is: Le più belle fiabe popolari italiane, Newton & Compton Editore.

( http://***kobo.com/it/it/ebook/le-pi...olari-italiane )

I don't see any of the strings you wrote in the epub version, obviously. I can't check the "kobo epub" version inside.

I have attached two screen shots from my Clara.

[Jane Eyre]

Originally Posted by DNSB

You can also try running the ePub through kepubify or using the KoboTouchExtended driver from calibre.

Should I try? I always convert from epub to kepub with Kepub Output and it alway does a good job.

Apart from the footnotes, could the other plug in solve with zoom image?

I'm testing myself on the open epub, I saw that images have been set this way

<p class="center"><img width="50%" alt="" src="../Images/namefile.jpg"/></p>

and the class in stylesheet is:

.center
{text-align:center;
text-indent:0em;
}

I'm not a big expert but, I usually use DIV for pictures in my work using this type of class:

div.picture
{
max-height:100%;
max-width:100%;
border:0px;
text-align:center;
margin-top:0.4em;
margin-bottom:0.4em;
}

Maybe that's the reason why in this book zoom doesn't work?

*** EDIT - UPDATE ***

I converted my epub for kindle, to KFX format and it works well!!
Footnotes in window, zoom on images.

So just kobo can't.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

I don't see any of the strings you wrote in the epub version, obviously. I can't check the "kobo epub" version inside.

I have attached two screen shots from my Clara.

If you don't see those strings in the ePub, it is not a kepub.

Also the book is not available here so I can't get a sample to take a look at.

[Jane Eyre]

But it is a kepub! Didn't you see the shots I posted? They come from my Kobo, and Kobo itself download kepub. Look at the photos: do you see the reading stats button, and the file info? The thing is, I'm definitely thinking the XHTML code of their pages is not proper, or, maybe there's something that doesn't work well with Kobo format. Otherwise, why does not kindle have the same difficulty with the book? I couldn't test on an original kfx because I don't want to buy the book twice..having bought on Kobo Store, but, after converting the DRM-free EPUBversion furnished by Kobo website to Amazon kfx everything was fine.
I know, this situation of mine is strange.. just one ebook, two different file format, I don't understand why!

P.S. Sorry you can't have a preview.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

But it is a kepub! Didn't you see the shots I posted? They come from my Kobo, and Kobo itself download kepub. Look at the photos: do you see the reading stats button, and the file info? The thing is, I'm definitely thinking the XHTML code of their pages is not proper, or, maybe there's something that doesn't work well with Kobo format. Otherwise, why does not kindle have the same difficulty with the book? I couldn't test on an original kfx because I don't want to buy the book twice..having bought on Kobo Store, but, after converting the DRM-free version furnished by Kobo website to Amazon kfx everything was fine.
I know, this situation of mine is strange.. just one ebook, two different file format, I don't understand why ��.

P.S. Sorry you can't have a preview.

What happens if you convert the epub you downloaded from your account to kepub and load that on your Kobo? Instead of the original kepub?

[Jane Eyre]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

What happens if you convert the epub you downloaded from your account to kepub and load that on your Kobo? Instead of the original kepub?

The same

I tried a lot of times to convert via Kepub Output, taking care in the preferences to set "Kobo profile" in the Output window, ma is no use.

I also tried with Kobo Touch Extended, I installed it in Calibre but I don't really know whether it is active or not, I didn't see any dialogue window or something during transferring the file from Calibre, but, at any case, nothing changed.
Quite rarely I have a footnotes in the preview window but most of time, no. And about the pictures, the majority doesn't resize.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

The same

I tried a lot of times to convert via Kepub Output, taking care in the preferences to set "Kobo profile" in the Output window, ma is no use.

I also tried with Kobo Touch Extended, I installed it in Calibre but I don't really know whether it is active or not, I didn't see any dialogue window or something during transferring the file from Calibre, but, at any case, nothing changed.
Quite rarely I have a footnotes in the preview window but most of time, no. And about the pictures, the majority doesn't resize.

Don't set the profile to Kobo. Set it to Tablet. Otherwise the images will be resized.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

I also tried with Kobo Touch Extended, I installed it in Calibre but I don't really know whether it is active or not, I didn't see any dialogue window or something during transferring the file from Calibre, but, at any case, nothing changed.

If you have the Kobo Utilities plugin installed, you can make the KoboTouchExtended driver active from there. Otherwise, you will have to go into Preferences => Plugins and search for KoboTouch. Set the KoboTouch driver to disabled and enable the KoboTouchExtended driver. Also, you will need to copy any settings you have made in the KoboTouch driver to the KoboTouchExtended driver.

And please note that renaming the file to .kepub.epub allows you to use the WebKit based renderer but many of the special features will not function.

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

Quite rarely I have a footnotes in the preview window but most of time, no. And about the pictures, the majority doesn't resize.

As the epub version is 2, you can't guarantee popup footnotes. See this message in the Moving to Kobo from Amazon, which file format should I use? thread for a somewhat relevant post.

And once again, try opening the file in either calibre's ebook editor or in Sigil. The only way to really see what's going on is to take a look under the covers.

As for the images, I've seen that when someone decided to specify the image size in pixels, cm, or other absolute measurement.

[Jane Eyre]

Well.. I do use ID with footnotes. I'm not so sure if in the most correct way, but it usually works in my ereaders...except with this one!. I followed Sigil the first time a long long time ago and I've always used it since then and it never failed.

I admit, of course, that I come from 9 years with a kindle, but I've ALWAYS modified or started by ground zero my epubs in the same way (basically the same stylesheet), converted them to azw3 first and kfx later and I NEVER had problems with footnotes.

I don't know why you say that this feature is not granted while using EPUB 2.
I've managed many Epub 2, and I'm quite sure that the majority of my Kindle Ebooks derive from Epub 2.

P.S. Maybe I could send the Epub DRM-free to you...do you think it possible?

[Martinoptic]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

P.S. Maybe I could send the Epub DRM-free to you...do you think it possible?

You could scramble the epub with the scramble plug in and then post it here.

Never post a copyrighted ebook that you haven’t first scrambled though.

I know nothing about kobos, but I’m sure that someone would be able to look at the scrambled version for you.

[Jane Eyre]

Originally Posted by Martinoptic

You could scramble the epub with the scramble plug in and then post it here.

Never post a copyrighted ebook that you haven’t first scrambled though.

I know nothing about kobos, but I’m sure that someone would be able to look at the scrambled version for you.

There could be the editor's copyright, though the book is made of old folktalkes from 1800.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

There could be the editor's copyright, though the book is made of old folktalkes from 1800.

The contents of the eBook will be scrambled. There i not an issue posting it here. It's not readable at all. It's just so we can see the code.

[Jane Eyre]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The contents of the eBook will be scrambled. There i not an issue posting it here. It's not readable at all. It's just so we can see the code.

What does it mean?