07-24-2022, 02:43 PM | #61 | |
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07-24-2022, 02:53 PM | #62 |
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Updated Elipsa from 4.32 to this. Not seeing the PDF zoom lock working, the page won't turn if Zoomed.
Advanced Notebooks seem OK. Edit: the Zoom maintained on PDF only works if you gesture to zoom in. If you use the menu the page won't turn, but gesture pinch / open is too big a jump. Useless. Edit: actually that often sticks on one page too. Edit 3. Only turns page at all with no zoom. Also - + steps on zoom or pinch are HUGE, you have to jiggle the slider. Edit 4. Page turns with any zoom only work with taps. Normally I have it set to swipe. Swipe of course Pans the page, which gave me the clue. You can also only turn off pinch to change font on ebooks; you can't turn off gesture to zoom. is there a patch to make - and + or pinch to zoom go in smaller steps? Last edited by Quoth; 07-24-2022 at 03:23 PM. |
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07-24-2022, 04:12 PM | #63 |
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I did find one bug with the pinch to change the font size. When I tried it, the slider for margins ended up all the way to the right even though on screen the margins did not change.
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07-24-2022, 06:36 PM | #64 |
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Now all that's needed on the new PDF zoom & and page feature:
1) Option to disable panning so swipe can work to change pages. Really unless I can read without panning, I won't. I'll use the zoom purely to crop margins. 2) Save the settings to the database per PDF. Currently forgets if you leave the book. 3) Make GUI have fine adjustment mode so if simply cropping margin it's easier to do. The Gesture and - + buttons are useless to crop off margins only. You can only do it with a careful jiggle of the slider. Or an auto-crop mode. Anyway, now I don't need KOReader on the Elipsa. It broke again anyway due to FW update so I removed the three folders in .add or .adds and then it needed a power cycle to remove the extra menu. The epubs would be unusable on the Mars without KOReader, but unless there is ever an option on kobo to open PDF (only) in KOReader via the usual Kobo My Books and Search, it's poor even using Calibre metadata. I'm just not interested in finding books via a file browser when there are 1000s. |
07-24-2022, 09:30 PM | #65 |
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Kobo Sage Problems: 1. Touches are not registered properly. I touch the "Battery" icon, but the "More" menu opens. While reading a book, I touch the top of the page to bring up the "Back to My Books" option in the top left, when I select it, I go to the "More" menu instead. 2. Advanced Notebook writing is still awful. Paragraphs and whole sentences disappear when I write quickly. Now, this also causes the Advanced menu options at the top left to disappear temporarily and lots of ghosting. 3. Extreme ghosting when reading a book and using the Highlight or Search or Dictionary Look-up functions. Multiple lines look darkened/selected until I force a page refresh. 4. Battery life not improved from previous version; possibly worse. Brightness at 37%: Advanced Notebook writing for 2 minutes: lost 4% battery. Brightness at 37%: Reading manga and then ebook for 6 minutes: lost 1% battery. 5. System navigation and page turns are still slower than Kindle Paperwhite 11th gen and Nook GL4. I have almost 1000 books on the Nook GL4 and it snaps through them quite quickly. I have about 600 on the PW. The Kobo Sage only has about 250 and I wouldn't want to add anymore. No scroll bar when there are multiple pages in my Collections is also a poor design choice in my opinion. 6. Graphic novel page turns still take 1 second+ to register, either by button or finger tap. It sounds very petty, but it's noticeable when you compare to 11th gen PW or GL4, which feel like less than 0.33 second to turn. Even the Nook GLP 2015 has faster manga page turns than the Kobo Sage; yes, the screen is only 6 inches, but processor is older gen, right? Something is not optimized in the Kobo Sage. I just give up. I await the 8-inch Kindle that Amazon will undoubtedly release in a year or two. Last edited by gforgiraffe39935; 07-25-2022 at 06:37 AM. Reason: Typo |
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07-24-2022, 09:58 PM | #66 |
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I suspect that in the release firmware only people in countries where KoboPlus is supported will be seeing that ad.
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07-24-2022, 10:03 PM | #67 | |
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A couple of you problems make me wonder if the update did not install properly. Try manually installing the update and see if that solves things. Or if there is a difference between behaviour just after restarting the device and later. |
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07-25-2022, 02:29 AM | #69 |
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I updated my Sage manually. I am thrilled to have the PDF zoom lock (something I have been waiting for). However, it doesn't seem to work properly. I flip it to landscape view, zoom in to remove the margins and enlarge the text, and it stays in position when I push the page button. However, the problem is that it goes to the top of the next page, rather than scrolling down the current page. Does anyone else have this bug?
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07-25-2022, 03:05 AM | #70 | |
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But, I do agree, the mode you describe would be good. Fill the screen and then page through each section of the page and then the top of the next and so on. |
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07-25-2022, 05:36 AM | #72 |
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07-25-2022, 06:00 AM | #74 | |
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I'll not rush to update my Sage as I don't use it for PDFs, but do use epubs and Advanced notebooks. |
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07-25-2022, 06:49 AM | #75 | |
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