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And on a separate note: Is there any reason for changing the font and size in all your posts? It must be extra work for you and is not helping us. Or at least it isn't helping me. Your posts are inconsistent with all the other posts in these threads and that actually makes them harder to read. As I already use the browser to make the font larger, your extra size makes it to large. Using the layout tools to emphasise something is good, but, the full post doesn't help. |
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Regarding the inability to display the book's text flush-left/ragged right:
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Before I used a Kobo I had several e-reader apps on a Samsung tablet. Some of them had controls that could override the style sheets' "text-align:justify" and worked every time. Some could override other formatting hard-coded in the CSS as well, such as inter-paragraph spacing or even first-line indents. (Those books were not kepub file, though—just ePub 2.) So: the book as originally downloaded from the Kobo site could be displayed FL/RR. The version I finally got back onto the Kobo via the ADE solution, could not be displayed that way. As for the fonts in these messages, changing to font size '4' and in particular changing to a serif typeface makes them a lot easier for me to read. But if this is going to be a point of contention I'll leave the formatting at the default settings. Last edited by marst; 01-12-2021 at 10:31 PM. |
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The above is the same for other devices and apps. Some respect the styles in the book and do not allow many changes. Some completely ignore the styles and override everything. The Adobe RMSDK falls on the "respect the book" side of things. For kepubs, it allows a few more things to be overridden. But, from my point of view, there is little difference. I can't think of the last time I sideloaded an epub and the font settings couldn't be changed. That means I find the idea that all of your books can't have these changes strange, or a fluke of your book selection. It could be that because of the books you like, they all come from one publisher who uses a particular style. If this is an issue for you, you need to look at solving the problem of why the books are not downloading to the device. Based on what you have done, I would start with a full factory reset. Not the one from Device information page of the settings, but using https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...Kobo-Libra-H2O. That will re-install the factory firmware before taking you through the setup. That will clean everything up and let you start from the beginning. And it should let the books sync to the device. If they don't it would suggest a problem at the server end with your account or particular books. |
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It does sound as if a full reset will have to be the next step.
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>> I can't think of the last time I sideloaded an epub and the font settings couldn't be changed. That means I find the idea that all of your books can't have these changes strange, or a fluke of your book selection. It could be that because of the books you like, they all come from one publisher who uses a particular style. As I said: The book in question, as first downloaded from the Kobo site, behaved like all the others downloaded that way. It could be set at my option to flush-left/ragged right. The same is true of all books I've purchased so far from the Kobo site, their publishers notwithstanding. When I gave up on sync via wifi and switched to the ADE solution, that's when the inability to change to FL/RR became apparent. The problem-child book is not side-loaded via manual copying. (On the other hand, when I've side-loaded DRM-free books via manual copying to the device's .kobo subdirectory, there's been no problem changing their text alignment to FL/RR.) |
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From my experience, few epubs do not respond to the controls. To check I used ADE to put about ten books on the device. In all cases, they let me change the font size and margins. Only one had problems with changing the font. It didn't change for the main body text, but it did change for the chapter headings and a couple of other places. Looking at the code in the book, it has hardcoded fonts for the bits that didn't change. And overall, the code in the book was bad enough, I'm not surprised things didn't work. For the justification options, it depends on the code in the book. If the styles in the book set the text to justified, it could not be overridden. If the book did not set the alignment to justified, the controls could change. But, it could also depend on how the book sets the alignment. The RMSDK might override it at the body level, but, not at the paragraph level. I don't have a book to test this with. The above works whether the book has DRM. But, the above is for epubs. Which are always sideloaded. The way kepubs (sideloaded or downloaded, with or without DRM) work is different. Just as other devices and other ereader apps work differently. The way they work depends on how the people who wrote the code decided to do it. That includes their interpretation of any applicable standards. As you seem to prefer the way that the kepubs work, then you need to get those working. Suggestions for how to do this have been made. As I have stated, I think you need to start with a full factory reset. |
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I don't see any reason not to use Calibre instead of syncing, using Kobo Desktop, or ADE to manage your eBooks. You just download as ePub and you can then do a lot more with your Kobo because of Calibre. Last edited by JSWolf; 01-13-2021 at 07:05 AM. |
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