“Your EPUB is fine. Kobo disagrees. Blame Adobe.”
An infuriating story about something most of us don't really stop to think about: e-books and the rendering engines companies and software use to display them.
It’s the year 2026. Thanks to the horrendous [Adobe] RMSDK which Kobo decided to use as their backbone for all book rendering (probably for DRM reasons), a single li
https://www.osnews.com/story/145302/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/
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