Fixed layout epub with InDesign and Sigil workflow (keeping real text on the epub)

[theoguedes]

Hello, how are you all? :)

I make my fixed layout epubs using InDesign (preparation, export) + Sigil (finish and clean up) for years, and until the last updates of Kobo app on iPad, as long as I keep the viewport and the image resolutions correct, Kobo app did read it perfectly. But the lasts month's updates simply broke it somehow. Now, if I keep the real text on the epub, I always get white borders on the exhibition...

I made tests removing the text divs and the book show up correctly on the app. Is there something that I could make to keep the real text using InDesign to export and yet make the app recognize right, without the white borders? I don't like the idea of fuse all the text as image... and in all other platforms, the way I do works perfectly (even in Kobo it worked well before the last updates...)

These are test epubs that I made, one with real text (and the infamous white borders) and other with the text removed.

With real text

Without the text

Sorry if something is not clear... as you can notice, English is not my first language =)

[wareid]

Hi @theoguedes thank you for raising this issue! I've passed it over to the team to investigate.

Do you know which version of the app it last worked in? Will help the team isolate the issue better.

[theoguedes]

Hi @wareid ! Thanks for the fast answer =)
If I have to guess the version, looking at the last modified date of the works I finished and tested, I would say, version 9.26 or 9.27, maybe. I tested a book in august, 30th and it worked well.