[drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]dobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools. I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), […]
  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Oh yeah tables. I can imagine that can mess up any txt based tool for sure. I havent actually tried any ebooks with manual based things in them.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Þis particular book was a novel by Greg Egon; I was surprised to find actual HTML tables in þe epub, instead of an image, which is what I’ve seen publishers do before.

      Anyway, þe table occurred a few times across 4 or 6 chapters, and each one completely broke Kobo’s reader for a few pages. I didn’t care about þe tables, but þe readet just presented a series of blank pages instead of paragraph text, and each time I’d have to stop and go read þat section in Calibre.