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EPUB rendering fidelity
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By #1, I get a reading experience as close to the pbook (paper book) as the publisher has intended. By #2, I get a better personalized reading experience than I can get with number one. I have been extremely happy about MapleRead in terms of satisfying my strict criteria set for features #1 and #2. ![]() It's hard to cite specific examples of how MapleRead is better than other apps in this aspect without comparing it against other apps' flaws. However, I do notice that there is very little (or none?) about this rendering fidelity being discussed in threads about BookMaster and MapleRead over the last 6 months since sbaylor introduced himself to this community. This is in stark contrast to what you see in another sub-forum where many rendering problems/errors are posted. Why? I think in this case no news is good news. |
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Agree rendering is perhaps the most important feature and many many apps, usually those that provide options to mess with the CSS, mess it up in someway.
Did a quick test of one ePub in MapleRead iPhone. Sadly it didn't do well. From what i remember of the CSS, it was a "p + h3" margin-top. But that looks to be the only issue with that one ePub so not too bad and better than most. Options to adjust paragraph indents and spaces between paragraphs maybe should just not exist since so far, I don't think I've seen one app with those options without problems. ![]() I did find one other issue. For chapters that span multiple files, it's perhaps best for the scroller to show a heading for next files until it finds a new heading. That might not be best for front matter that might not always have a TOC entry but i believe is safest overall. Last edited by democrite; 07-10-2016 at 01:31 PM. |
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Yes Marvin 2 and 3 have rendering issues with 3 being not as good as 2. CSS can get complicated and likely those that mostly read novels or simply formatted books with endless paragraphs with no formatting other than text indent, they might not notice.
As far as the problem CSS i found in MapleRead, I'm typing from my phone so it's hard to check. But from memory i can describe it. Imagine a file with an H1 heading and many later H2 and H3. Let's say it begins H1 then H2. Then a bunch of paragraphs. Then another H2. If you want that H2 to be formatted differently, you can define an H2 that follows a paragraph like so: H2 { margin:...} p + h2 {margin-top: something different. } Pretty sure that's what it is. Except for font family, line height, and page margin, I'm not sure if it's wise to mess with an eBook's styling. Who knows what other unknown issues remain. iBooks rendering I've found best so far. Maybe not perfect but no recent issues i can remember except not using iBook's line height when it's specifically defined or other things i can fix by editing the CSS. Edit: found an issue with full justification. Normally I only want on or off, not to set left and then see centered and right justified now left. I'm not sure if having options other than off and on are common enough to warrant such a setting. Last edited by democrite; 07-10-2016 at 03:05 PM. |
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![]() I can understand Kris perhaps had various factors that made him decide to release as such, and perhaps during the beta, no one reported rendering issues. Who knows. It was a complete rewrite and given that it isn't an essential app (well it is, but not that essential), some bugs, even known bugs, left for post-release, by an indie developer, I'm a bit more forgiving for that. Quote:
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![]() For me, it's a tough choice between Marvin 3 and MapleRead. On the one hand, I love the in-app brightness control of MapleRead, which Marvin lacks. However, Marvin syncs through iCloud, which I prefer to syncing through a private server. I also prefer how Marvin syncs. MapleRead's sync is ... well ... kind of clunky in comparison. |
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I tried MapleRead on my phone, and got really impressed. It's everything that iBooks should be by now. Love the layout control options. Already upgraded to the pro version.
As soon as I get to my iPad, I'll purchase the SE version there as well. Great work! EDIT: Done! Now I'm a SE user on the iPad. Last edited by miguel1626; 07-18-2016 at 01:13 PM. |
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I continue to love using this program daily on my iPhone and iPad. I was wondering if we could get the lock rotation feature moved from the catalog screen to some place accessible from inside books (ie the fonts/brightness menu). It can be bothersome to open a book and realize you have the rotation option on the wrong setting and then you need to leave your book to change it.
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The "Lock Rotation" switch is accessible via the Settings button in the Library View. It is applicable to every view of the app, including Library views, exchange views and reading views. It works like an app-specific rotation lock (vs. system-wide hardware or software rotation lock). The "Lock Rotation" switch has always been there and works like that since v1.0. If the switch were moved from there to somewhere inside a book-reading view, it might be convenient in the cited case, but it would be inconvenient and would look odd for other currently supported use cases. ("Why do I have to open a book first in order to prevent my library view from rotating?", etc.) Duplicating the switch or adding a new switch seems a bad idea, as it would complicate things unnecessarily. |
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Of course, such concern regarding small details of UI is good news imo because it means that the program overall is pretty amazing. I can understand that changing this is not something you will do but thought it might affect other users and deserved discussion. Again, thanks for the development of MapleRead - it's great and I appreciate that you spend time in the forum responding to the users suggestions/issues. |
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I downloaded MapleRead CX onto my iPhone 6Plus, and read the ebooks I buy through Calibre Companion on it.
I see where CX is limited to 5 ebook downloads. But nowhere can I find the difference between the other two versions. One of those versions will undoubtedly be the one I need, but how do I find out? |
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@Leo78256 - The limit of 5 applies to the number of books you can download via MapleRead CX's PC Upload feature, if you're using the free version. To get unlimited access, you can easily in-app purchase "Pro Upgrade". (Tap the Library Settings icon)
If you're going to read also on iPad, then get SE or CE, depending on your need. For a very detailed description of the features of SE, CE, CX, please read this webpage on our website. |
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