Hello. I'm new around here having bought myself a Kobo Aura a couple of months ago. I'm been pretty happy with it on the whole until I tried to read one of Alex Bellos's books which contains a lot of SVGs.
Am I correct in reaching the conclusion that there are two entirely separate rendering engines used by the Kobos - one which renders kepubs and one which renders epubs? The kepub engine renders the svg images so small that they're usually impossible to read while the epub engine handles them properly.
There seem to be other differences too to do with the way fonts and page-breaks are handled. I have some sideloaded fonts which are handled properly by the epub engine which the kepub engine can't handle properly (eg it thinks the bold or italic faces are the regular face). The epub engine on the other hand sometimes generates spurious page-breaks.
Anyone know just why there are (apparently) two completely separate rendering engines?
Am I correct in reaching the conclusion that there are two entirely separate rendering engines used by the Kobos - one which renders kepubs and one which renders epubs? The kepub engine renders the svg images so small that they're usually impossible to read while the epub engine handles them properly.
There seem to be other differences too to do with the way fonts and page-breaks are handled. I have some sideloaded fonts which are handled properly by the epub engine which the kepub engine can't handle properly (eg it thinks the bold or italic faces are the regular face). The epub engine on the other hand sometimes generates spurious page-breaks.
Anyone know just why there are (apparently) two completely separate rendering engines?