Device-synced highlights stored POINT CFIs (epubcfi(.../8/1:1)); the
overlayer resolves those to a collapsed range and paints nothing, so
KOReader-made highlights were listed in the drawer but invisible on
the page. mapHighlightRow now builds a renderCfi: a proper RANGE CFI
(epubcfi(base,/start,/end)) synthesized from the stored start/end
points. It also repairs stale rows: missing ends (old web highlights)
and degenerate document-start ends (the old converter fallback) are
derived from the start offset plus the selection text's UTF-16
length. All overlay drawing, navigation (showAnnotation), and the
post-create/post-edit re-adds use renderCfi. Verified in-browser
against live device-synced rows: the paginator's overlayer paints
the highlight rects after the fix.
Web highlights stored only epubcfi_start, so devices received
degenerate pos0 == pos1 (zero-length) highlight ranges. The reader
now collapses the selection range to its end point for a second CFI
and stores it as epubcfi_end (PDF rect anchors reuse the JSON anchor
for both ends).
Phase 4 of the reader redesign (foliate-js ea268df):
- Webtoon mode for comics: continuous vertical scroll of all pages
(900px centered column on wide screens), lazy-loaded with a 150%
IntersectionObserver margin, far pages unloaded to bound memory
with stable aspect-ratio placeholders so the scrollbar never jumps.
Chosen per book (Paged | Webtoon segmented control in Settings →
Layout & Display; stored in localStorage per media item since a
webtoon title and a paged manga volume want different flows).
Toggling reloads the reader — the renderer is chosen at open time —
and progress restores from the saved page. Relocate events flow
through the same pipeline, so the slider, progress saving, back
stack, tap zones, and edge zones all work unchanged. Zoom/fit/
magnifier/spread controls hide in webtoon (natural-width scroll).
- Display filters for fixed-layout: brightness (30-130%) and
contrast (70-130%) sliders with live preview, plus Night Mode
(invert) — also a quick row in the ⋯ tools menu. One --fx-filter
CSS var drives everything: ::part(filter) on foliate-view iframes
(forwarded via the new exportparts attribute) and the webtoon
page images alike. Persisted as fx_brightness/fx_contrast/fx_invert
(types + defaults both sides); Restore Defaults resets them.
Help menu (the reader had a growing shortcut/gesture vocabulary with
no discoverability): a ? topbar button, the '?' key, and F1 open a
glass modal listing navigation, zoom/pan, highlight, and touch
gesture reference — format-aware (fixed-layout/PDF rows appear only
where they apply), Esc closes it first in the dismiss chain.
Desktop edge zones: clickable page-turn strips on the left/right
viewport edges (8% width, 44-72px), desktop only (hover+fine-pointer
media query — touch devices use tap zones, avoiding double paging).
Hovering reveals a chevron arrow and a subtle edge gradient. Zones
disable (pointer-events pass-through) while a fixed-layout page is
zoomed so edge clicks belong to content: panning, selection,
highlight editing. fxZoomed tracks zoom state via the renderer zoom
event, reset/fit actions, and init.
The 🏷️ bookmark button (and the 'b' shortcut) saved silently — an
accidental click gave no reaction at all. addBookmark() now shows a
short success toast ('Bookmark added — <progress>') using the
existing toast system, which the reader bundle hadn't been importing.
Importing it also activates the shared fetch interceptor, so failed
reader API calls (incl. bookmark saves) surface error toasts instead
of being swallowed.
Investigation: the contents drawer read book.toc, which makePDF
builds from pdf.getOutline() — verified against the real library PDF
(Head First SQL) through the exact vendored pdf.js build AND the exact
range transport the browser uses: 18 chapter entries come back. So
the source is right; manga-scan PDFs and CBZs simply have no embedded
outline, which made Contents look broken exactly where users expect
page-based navigation.
- TOC now populates eagerly right after the book opens (toggle-time
lazy population removed), so an existing outline can never silently
miss due to timing; the drawer keeps the honest empty-state text
for books without outlines.
- New 'Pages' tab in the contents drawer for fixed-layout books:
a Kavita-style thumbnail grid (3-up, current page highlighted and
scrolled into view, click to jump — recorded on the back-to-
location stack). Thumbnails render client-side: PDFs via the
in-memory pdf.js document (small viewport render, Alpine.raw
unwrap); comics via the page's image blob drawn down to a 110px
canvas, then unloading the full-size blob so thumbnailling doesn't
hoard page images. Lazy via IntersectionObserver scoped to the
drawer's scroll container (200px margin), canvases cached at module
level so revisits are instant; failures warn in console and allow
retry. The backend /readers/thumbnails endpoint turned out to be an
empty stub, so nothing server-side was worth wiring.
Wrapping alone isn't how polished mobile readers work. Adopt the
standard pattern (Kindle/Apple Books/Mihon) responsively:
- >= 768px: the full fixed-layout toolbar stays (wrap still absorbs
mid-size widths) — power users keep one-click zoom/fit/spread.
- < 768px: single-line compact row — page back, back-to-location pin,
slider, page forward, progress, and a ⋯ overflow button. No
wrapping, no horizontal scroll.
- ⋯ opens a glass menu anchored above the bar with LABELED rows
(Zoom −/%/+, Fit, Page position/Recenter, Magnifier, Pointer
Smart/Pan/Text, Double page, Contents) — labels beat mystery icons
on touch. Pointer row hides for comics; menu scrolls if tall.
- Dismissal: Esc, outside click (⋯ button exempt so it re-toggles
cleanly), opening any drawer or TOC closes it; hides with the
chrome. Compact slider registered in progressSliders() so all
three stay in sync with relocate events.
- Back-to-location moves from the topbar (where it sat between Back
and the title, too subtle and disconnected from navigation) into
both bottom-bar rows, beside the page-back arrow — the natural
'go back' cluster. New icon: a location pin, clearly distinct from
the back arrow and page controls. Appears only when the stack has
a return target; Alt+← unchanged.
- New recenter button in the fixed-layout row (crosshair icon, next
to zoom): resets pan offsets while keeping the current zoom —
backed by foliate's new recenter() (1c812e8), which zeroes the
wrapper translate and re-syncs the spread side.
- Both bottom-bar rows wrap gracefully on narrow windows instead of
overflowing/h-scrolling: controls are grouped (paging+back | slider |
fit+zoom+magnifier+recenter | pointer mode | spread | progress+TOC)
so groups flow to a second line at small widths; the slider shrinks
first (grow + min-width), everything else stays whole. Fixed-layout
row drops its overflow-x-auto.
Highlights landed on the right line but shifted right and oversized
on any display with devicePixelRatio != 1. Cause: selection fractions
divided the textLayer span rects by documentElement's screen rect,
but pdf.js scales the iframe's <html> by 1/dpr — that rect is dpr×
smaller than the visible page, inflating every x/w fraction by dpr
(on a 2× display a highlight started twice as far right and was twice
as wide). dpr=1 displays were coincidentally correct, which is why
the geometry looked sound when written.
The denominator is now the rendered canvas (#canvas canvas), whose
post-transform rect IS the visible page and shares the textLayer's
transform space — the dpr scaling cancels exactly. Comics keep the
img denominator; a viewport fallback covers any page without either.
The popover-placement scale factors (frame/denominator) become 1 for
PDFs as a side effect, fixing popover drift too. The fork's click
hit-test (86e234d) gets the same canvas-aware denominator so clicking
highlights opens the editor at the right spot.
Highlights saved before this fix stored dpr-inflated fractions and
will still render misplaced — delete and re-create them.
PDF search diagnosis: extraction and matching were proven correct
against the real 609-page library PDF (pdfjs 5.5.207, incl. the exact
range-transport setup makePDF uses — 841 hits for 'SELECT'), and the
served bundle had every piece. The failure was Alpine's reactivity:
this.book is a plain object, so reading .pdf through component state
returns a reactive Proxy around the PDFDocumentProxy — and pdf.js
v5 uses #private fields, so getPage() through the proxy throws
'cannot read private member', which the empty catch rendered as a
silent empty result set. runPdfSearch now unwraps via Alpine.raw
(falls back to the raw read), and search failures surface in the
drawer ('Search failed — see console') plus console.warn instead of
masquerading as 'No matches'.
Back-to-location stack (research/footnote workflow): the current
position is recorded before every programmatic jump — search-result
clicks, TOC entries, bookmark and highlight jumps — and on every
internal link click (footnotes, cross-references) via foliate's
'link' event. A ↩ button appears in the topbar once a return target
exists; Alt+← works everywhere. Ordinary paging never pollutes the
stack (max depth 50, consecutive duplicates collapse).
PDFs have fully searchable text (pdf.js text layer) — the previous
reflowable-only gate existed only because foliate's generic search
needs DOM documents that PDF sections don't provide. This adds a PDF
pipeline alongside it:
- Fork d065495 exposes the pdf.js document proxy as book.pdf so the
host can drive text extraction directly.
- New web/src/reader/pdf-search.ts: extractPdfPages() pulls each
page's textContent with item geometry (progress-reported, cached
after first search). PDF text items often omit inter-word spaces
(gaps are positional), so pages are joined gap-aware — baseline
changes, hasEOL, or horizontal gaps past a font-size threshold
become spaces — recording a char→item map. searchPdfPages() does
case-insensitive matching over the joined text and maps each hit
back to the page-fraction rects of the items it spans, with
ellipsized pre/match/post excerpts. Pure functions, unit-sanity
checked (cross-item 'brave new' → two rects).
- runSearch branches: EPUB keeps foliate's DOM search; PDFs search
the extracted pages, group hits per page ('Page 12'), and render
on-page hit rectangles through the existing fraction-rect overlay
(addRectAnnotation) — which re-render automatically when pages
revisit, same as highlights. Clearing the query removes them.
- Results navigate by page index; the 🔍 button and '/' shortcut now
appear for PDFs too (comics remain without searchable text).
Wires foliate's search engine into the new drawer system:
- 🔍 topbar button (reflowable-only; PDF/comic sections have no
searchable text documents) and the '/' keyboard shortcut open a
Search drawer: query input (Enter to run), live progress while
scanning (per-section percent), match count, and results grouped
by section with TOC labels.
- Each result shows pre/match/post excerpt rendered as three text
nodes (no x-html — book content never enters the DOM as markup);
the match is styled with a translucent <mark>. Clicking jumps to
the hit's CFI and closes the drawer.
- Hits are drawn on the page through foliate's overlayer (outline
style) and persist across page turns — the engine re-applies
search results when a section's overlay is created. Clearing the
query removes the outlines.
- A generation counter discards results and progress from superseded
searches (rapid re-query), and starting a new search clears the
previous one server-side via view.clearSearch().
- Search integrates with the drawer system: scrim, Esc-to-close,
one-drawer-at-a-time, / focuses the input via .
Two bugs broke the Phase 3b PDF highlight flow end to end:
1. Selection capture never attached: reader.ts read renderer.isPDF
before view.init() rendered the first spread, but the renderer
only sets that flag once frames exist (PDF frames carry pdf.js
onZoom). The stale undefined copy gated the pointerup selection
listener off, so selecting PDF text did nothing. The listener now
gates structurally on the loaded document having a .textLayer
(true for every PDF page, false for comics), and isPDF is re-read
after init — which also finally makes the Smart|Pan|Text control
and the saved pointer mode apply on PDFs.
2. Highlights rendered invisibly: the overlay SVG lived inside the
page iframe, whose <html> pdf.js scales by 1/devicePixelRatio —
shrinking the overlay into the top-left corner on any dpr != 1
display. The fork (1c0ebf3) now renders annotation rects
host-side, inside the frame wrapper element, positioned in
percentages of the visible page box — immune to the html
transform, zoom re-renders, comic iframe scaling, and pan/zoom.
Phase 3b of the reader redesign — highlighting for fixed-layout PDFs:
- Select text on a PDF page → same glass popover as EPUBs (colors,
note, copy). The selection's client rects are normalized to
page-fraction quads using a transform-inclusive denominator so
pdf.js's devicePixelRatio scaling on <html> cancels out, then
stored as a JSON anchor {page, rects} in epubcfi_start.
- Rendering goes through the fork's new rect-annotation pipeline
(foliate-js aba68d8): a full-bleed viewBox-0-100 SVG inside the
page iframe, so highlights stay aligned through pan/zoom, iframe
CSS-scaling, and PDF hi-res re-renders with zero re-anchoring.
Frames carry their page index and re-render annotations when
recreated on spread changes.
- Clicking an existing highlight hit-tests in fraction space and
opens the edit popover (recolor, note, copy, delete) at the
host-space click position; drag-selecting text never triggers it.
- Annotations drawer: PDF highlights jump by page index; notes and
recolors round-trip through the same LWW/dedup sync path as EPUBs
(same dedup key derivation on the JSON anchor).
- Comics keep bookmark-only highlighting (no text layer) by design.
Phase 3 (EPUB half) of the reader redesign:
- Select text in a reflowable book → floating glass popover at the
selection (5 colors, note, copy). Clicking a color creates the
highlight via POST /api/media-items/:id/highlights, anchored by the
foliate range CFI (epubcfi_start) with percentage position.
- Highlights render through foliate's overlayer pipeline: draw-
annotation draws Overlayer.highlight with the stored color,
create-overlay re-adds persisted highlights as sections load,
show-annotation opens the edit popover when a highlight is clicked
(recolor, edit note, copy, delete).
- Backend: highlight create/update accept epubcfi_start/end,
note_text, and percentage fields; position validation relaxed
(CFIs exceed the old 100-char cap); PUT routes through
AnnotationService.SaveHighlight so edits get dedup/LWW treatment
and actually persist note_text (the plain query can't).
- Bookmarks drawer becomes the Annotations drawer with tabs:
Highlights (color-bar list, note previews, jump/edit/delete),
Notes (add note at current position, list, delete — backed by the
existing notes API), and Bookmarks (unchanged behavior).
- Popover dismissed on outside click, collapsed selection, page
navigation, or Esc (new top-priority Esc branch).
Phase 2 of the reader redesign:
- Fixed-layout touch engine (foliate-js e9e61d8): pinch-zoom around
the midpoint, two-finger pan, single-finger pan while zoomed,
horizontal swipe page-turn at fit (RTL-aware via next()/prev()),
and double-tap to zoom 2.5x / reset. Touch events forwarded from
page iframes with converted coordinates; preventDefault only when
the engine consumes the gesture, so PDF text selection and native
taps stay intact. touch-action: none on the host and in comic/pdf
page documents keeps the browser from fighting the engine.
- Tap zones (Kindle-style) for touch devices: tap the outer margins
to page, center to toggle chrome. Size configurable (10-50%) via
the revived tap_zone_size setting; toggle via new tap_zones_enabled
(Behavior section of the settings drawer). Pointer-based + passive
so drags/swipes/selection never trigger; attached both to the
viewport and inside every page document (iframe events don't
bubble); debounced 280ms so double-tap zoom doesn't also page; no
zone actions while a fixed-layout page is zoomed.
- Drawers become full-width sheets on screens <= 640px.
Phase 1 of the reader redesign:
- Reading surface is edge-to-edge; top/bottom bars overlay
translucently (backdrop-blur) instead of reserving insets, killing
the inset-coordination bug class entirely. Chrome auto-hides after
2.5s of pointer inactivity (chrome_behavior setting finally wired:
auto-hide / always-visible; legacy values map to auto-hide). Pointer
activity inside page iframes keeps it awake; Esc toggles.
- TOC / Settings / Bookmarks become slide-over drawers with a scrim
(z-50, full-height, safe-area aware), replacing the dockable-panel
system and its window-shade headers. Only one drawer opens at a
time; Esc or scrim click closes.
- Bottom bar is contextual: reflowable keeps nav/slider/progress/TOC;
fixed-layout row adds Fit Page/Width select, zoom cluster,
magnifier (now shows active state), Double Page Spread toggle, and
a Smart | Pan | Text segmented control replacing the cryptic
two-state icon. Smart = text-aware drag; Text = selection-only
(manual smart-detect off); Pan = force pan. Choice persists via
pdf_interaction_mode (new setting + foliate 29bc958 'text' mode).
- Settings drawer: Behavior (chrome, progress mode), Appearance with
18 Kindle-style theme swatches (single source of truth from
THEME_COLORS), Typography, Layout — each scoped by format.
- Keyboard: t/s/b open TOC/settings/bookmark, Esc closes drawers
before toggling chrome, shortcuts skip form inputs; both slider
rows tracked correctly (no duplicate-ID lookups).
- Topbar: Back, title, add-bookmark, bookmarks drawer, Aa settings;
chrome follows user theme.
Phase 0 of the reader redesign:
- Panels no longer render under the top/bottom bars: sidebars get
measured insets (same resize/safe-area mechanism as the viewport);
panel max-height now derives from the bounded sidebar instead of a
100vh guess; right-side border targets the actual sidebar.
- Bookmarks work end-to-end for the first time: REST CRUD under
/api/media-items/:id/bookmarks (create/delete route through
AnnotationService for dedup/LWW/tombstones), fix UpdateMediaBookmark
referencing nonexistent updated_at column, frontend posts to the
real API with per-format position (CFI vs page), live list with
jump + delete instead of SSR-only snapshot.
- Fix chapter matching in progress saves: boundaries were compared by
a nonexistent tocItem property, so chapter was never persisted.
- Remove dead UI: Navigator panel stub, empty dictionary popup shell,
unwired Chrome Behavior select; purge 160 stale build artifacts.
- Reader chrome now follows the user's app theme instead of hardcoded
theme-tokyo-night.
The double_page_spread checkbox in the reader settings panel was inert:
it had no Alpine binding, no apply logic, and no persistence. Default
was also inconsistent (false in settings-manager, absent from server
defaults).
- Add doublePageSpread state to the reader Alpine component, loaded
from saved settings (default true)
- Add applyDoublePageSpread() which sets the renderer's 'spread'
attribute to auto/none and persists the setting via saveSettings
- Apply the spread attribute during fixed-layout renderer init
- Bind the settings checkbox with x-model and @change
- Add double_page_spread: true to ReaderService server defaults so
new users get the same starting value the client expects
- Also improve the PDF pan/select toolbar button: distinct smart-
select vs pan icons, highlighted state while pan mode is active,
and dynamic tooltips/aria-labels explaining each mode
The reader's back button was hardcoded to the book detail page
(/media/{id}), so even when you launched the reader straight from the
dashboard the back button ignored that and sent you to the detail view.
Mirror the existing book-detail.ts referrer pattern: capture
document.referrer into sessionStorage on load (excluding other reader
pages and the reader's own URL), then override the back link's click to
navigate there. Falls back to the link's original href (/media/{id}) when
no valid referrer exists (direct URL access).
On phones the footer's progress cell rendered the full chapter title (e.g. 'Long Chapter Name · 5 / 12') in a div with no max-width or nowrap, so the text wrapped to multiple lines and ballooned the bottom bar. Combined with viewport offsets that were computed from assumed pixel heights with ~0px margin, the book text slipped underneath the bars.
Chapter label in footer: split #progress-display into two spans (progressLabel hidden on mobile via 'hidden sm:inline', progressMain always shown) and cap it with 'truncate whitespace-nowrap max-w-[5rem] sm:max-w-none' so it can never wrap or grow the bar. Phones now show just '5 / 12'; larger screens keep 'Chapter · 5 / 12'.
Viewport offset: replace the fragile hardcoded calc() with runtime measurement. Gave the chrome bars ids (reader-topbar/reader-bottombar) and added updateViewportInsets(), which sets #reader-viewport top/bottom from each bar's real offsetHeight (which already includes env(safe-area-inset-*) padding) plus a 6px margin. It runs on init and refreshes on resize, orientationchange, and via a ResizeObserver, so the content area tracks the actual chrome height on any DPI, notch, home-indicator, or zoom level instead of guessing.
Refactored formatProgress into formatProgressParts (returns {label, main}; only chapter mode sets a label) with a setProgress() helper wiring progressLabel/progressMain/progressText across the relocate, cycleProgressMode, and applyProgressMode call sites. Rebuilt reader_templ.go and style.css.
The web reader now captures ~100 chars of visible text from the
foliate relocate event's range and includes it as context_text in
the progress PUT body for reflowable formats.
This enables the server's reverseByTextSearch fallback in
ConvertStandardToCRE, which is critical for single-file EPUBs
(e.g. 1984) where foliate emits coarse or fake-section CFIs that
CREngine cannot directly resolve. Previously only the KOReader
plugin sent context_text; the web reader's omission left the
fallback unusable, causing percentage-based position estimation
that was off by ~1 page.
Changes:
- Add contextText state property (line 387)
- Extract visible text from e.detail.range in relocate handler,
normalize whitespace, and slice to 100 chars (lines 508-512)
- Include context_text in saveProgress PUT body for reflowable
EPUBs only, alongside epubcfi (line 575)
The server-side chain was already wired: media.go accepts it,
progress.go stores it, and koreader.go passes it to the CFI
converter. No Go changes needed.
The web reader's saveProgress always sent epubcfi: cfi || "", even
for fixed-layout comics/PDFs. Foliate's comic renderer generates a
fake CFI (epubcfi(/6/{n})) for every page via CFI.fake.fromIndex,
which the server stored as a valid locator. These fake CFIs are
meaningless — the page index is the canonical locator for image-based
content — and they caused koreader to crash on pull (see prior commit).
Only set epubcfi in the request body for reflowable documents.
foliate's goLeft/goRight (and spread ordering) swap on book.dir ===
"rtl", but makeComicBook never sets dir, so manga/comic archives
always paged left-to-right even when the metadata says right-to-left.
For fixed-layout content, set this.book.dir = "rtl" from the
readingDirection metadata after the book opens. Reflowable EPUBs are
unaffected: they keep whatever direction foliate read from the OPF.
This is scoped to isFixedLayout (FXL EPUB, PDF, comics) so it cannot
reach the reflowable path.
Fixed-layout EPUBs, PDFs, DjVu, and comic archives (cbz/cbr/cb7/cbt)
are page-based: each page is a fixed image, so a page index is an exact,
universal locator regardless of screen size or device. Sync previously
treated these like reflowable content (CFI-first restore, percentage
fallback, character-offset math), which was both wrong and lossy. This
makes the page index the canonical position for fixed-layout and comic
formats while leaving the reflowable path byte-for-byte unchanged.
Backend:
- progress.go SaveProgress: branch on mediaItem.FormatGroup. For
fixed_layout/comic_archive derive percentage from current_page/
total_pages and skip the CFI/character-offset back-fills (meaningless
for image content). The reflowable derivation block is preserved
verbatim under an else.
- kobo.go: Kobo only sends a percentage, so for fixed-layout/comic
formats derive CurrentPage via PercentageToPage(percentage, pageCount)
using the media item's known page count, so Kobo->web lands on the
exact page.
Reader:
- reader.templ readerInitExpr: pass savedPage/savedTotalPages to the
reader config for fixed_layout/comic_archive formats.
- reader.ts: when isFixedLayout and savedPage is present, restore via
view.init({ lastLocation: savedPage - 1 }) (a bare number navigates
foliate directly to the section index). Reflowable falls through to
the existing CFI->percentage path, unchanged.
- reader.templ: divide DB percentage (0-1) by 100 was wrong; actually
the router multiplies by 100, so template now divides by 100 to get
back to 0-1 range for foliate-js savedPercentage
- reader.ts: add 5-second initTime guard to prevent overwriting
existing progress with initial position on page load
PDFs failed to open with error:
Invalid factory url: "http://localhost:8765/static/undefined"
Root cause: foliate-js's pdfjsPath() uses new URL(dynamicPath, import.meta.url)
to resolve runtime asset paths (standard_fonts/, cmaps/). Vite transforms this
pattern into a static asset map lookup at build time, but can only resolve
known static file paths — not dynamically-constructed directory paths. The
lookup returns undefined, producing a broken URL.
Fix (two parts):
1. foliate-js fork (commit d164d6f): Export an overridable config.pdfjsPath
function. Module-level code (worker, CSS) continues using import.meta.url
directly (works fine with Vite for static filenames). The makePDF function
uses config.pdfjsPath for runtime paths, allowing consumers to override it.
2. Bookhoard changes:
- Update foliate-js dependency to d164d6f
- Override config.pdfjsPath in reader.ts to resolve to /static/vendor/pdfjs/
- Add Vite plugin (pdfjsAssets) that copies standard_fonts/ and cmaps/ from
node_modules to the build output during vite build (the standard approach
used by react-pdf and other pdfjs-dist consumers)
- Remove manual cp commands from build:ts scripts
Remove 185 binary files (169 CMaps + 16 standard fonts) from git
tracking. These are build artifacts copied from
node_modules/@bookhoard/foliate-js at build time and should not be
version-controlled.
Changes:
- Remove web/static/vendor/pdfjs/ from git (169 cmap files + 16
standard font files)
- Add web/static/vendor/ to .gitignore
- Drop CJK cmap copying from build scripts — the app is English-only
and CJK support can be re-added later if needed (saves ~1.7MB in
the container image)
- Update all three build scripts (build:ts, build:ts:dev,
build:ts:watch) to copy only standard_fonts/ from node_modules
- Remove cMapUrl from reader.ts PDF config since we no longer ship
cmaps
- Keep standardFontDataUrl pointing to the build-copied fonts which
are needed for PDFs with non-embedded standard fonts (Helvetica,
Times, Courier, etc.)
foliate-js could not locate cmaps and standard_fonts at runtime because
no explicit paths were provided to the PDF.js config. This caused
rendering failures for PDFs using CJK fonts or standard PDF fonts.
Changes:
- Pass cMapUrl and standardFontDataUrl to view.open() in reader.ts
- Pin foliate-js fork to commit 74c317d in package.json for reproducibility
- Update build:ts script to copy cmaps/ and standard_fonts/ to
web/static/vendor/pdfjs/ during build
The reader's saveProgress() now sends a more complete payload to the
backend so ProgressService has more data for enrichment and merge:
- chapter: computed from TOC boundary index instead of missing
- reading_mode: current display mode (page, chapter, percent, time-left)
- zoom_level: for fixed-layout books (renderer.zoomPercent / 100)
- current_page: real page number for fixed-layout, location.current for
reflowable
- total_pages: section count for fixed-layout, location.total for
reflowable
Adds computeChapterPageBoundaries(doc) for reflowable EPUBs that maps
TOC anchors to rendered page numbers, recomputes after fonts load.
Adds computeFixedLayoutChapterBoundaries() for fixed-layout books that
resolves TOC hrefs to page indices via view.resolveNavigation().
Updates reader.templ to expose isFixedLayout to Alpine init.
Connect the existing progress_mode setting dropdown to the reader's
progress display. Four modes are now functional:
- pages: overall percent + page/location number (default, existing)
- chapter: chapter title + page X / Y within current section
- percentage: overall percent only
- time-left: percent + estimated time remaining via reading speed API
The progress display in the bottom bar is now clickable to cycle through
modes with immediate visual feedback. The settings dropdown is bound
with x-model for persistence. Reading speed is fetched once on init
from the backend reading-speed API for time-left estimates.
The web reader had all the infrastructure for progress persistence
(updateReadingProgress/getReadingProgress API functions, PUT/GET
endpoints, database queries) but the reader.ts never called them.
Changes:
- Add debounced (2s) saveProgress call on every relocate event that
PUTs percentage, current_page, total_pages, and epubcfi to the
existing /api/media-items/:id/progress endpoint
- Replace renderer.next() with view.init({ lastLocation }) to restore
the reader to the last saved position on load (CFI first, then
fraction fallback, then default first page)
- Pass savedPercentage and savedCfi from server-side progress data
through readerInitExpr config to the JS initReader function
- Add mediaItemId and saveTimeout to the Alpine data object
This fixes both the blank /progress page and the missing progress
section on book detail pages — both were empty because the
reading_progress table never received any data from the web reader.
- Remove Playwrite NZ Guides test font and all references (FONT_MAP,
FONT_FILES, reader-fonts.css, dropdown option, font files)
- Move settings panel from left sidebar to right sidebar (left sidebar
now only contains TOC)
- Move Restore Defaults button from top bar icon to a styled button
inside the settings panel, side by side with Done button
The paginator renders inside a sandboxed iframe that blocks @font-face
URL fetches. Fonts were never loading — all font-family rules fell back
to the generic 'serif' system font, making every reading font identical.
Fix: fetch font files on the parent page, create blob: URLs via
URL.createObjectURL(), and use those blob URLs in the @font-face rules
injected into the iframe via setStyles(). Blob URLs are always
same-origin with the creating document, so the sandboxed iframe can
access them with allow-same-origin.
Also added Playwrite NZ Guides as a test font for verifying font
switching works.
Fonts weren't loading because the paginator renders inside a sandboxed
iframe. @font-face declarations in the parent page's CSS are invisible
to the iframe's document. Even injecting @font-face rules via
setStyles() may not trigger font loading in sandboxed iframes.
Fix: inject a <link> to reader-fonts.css directly into the iframe's
document on each section load, so @font-face declarations are parsed
in the iframe's own document context where font-family rules can
reference them.
Also:
- Remove foliate-themes.css entirely (no longer needed)
- Set viewport background color directly via JS using THEME_COLORS map
- Remove reading theme CSS classes from viewport element
background: none on html/body exposed the iframe's default black
background in gaps around the content. Now uses background-color
matching the theme color, and stops forcing background on body *
which caused black bars around page margins.
The paginator renders book content inside a sandboxed iframe within a
closed shadow DOM. @font-face declarations from the parent page's
reader-fonts.css are NOT available inside the iframe's document context.
All font-family rules fell back to the generic 'serif' system font,
making every reading font look identical.
Fix: prepend all @font-face declarations (Literata, Crimson Pro,
Source Serif 4, EB Garamond, Libertinus Serif, Noto Serif, Charis SIL,
IBM Plex Serif) into the CSS string returned by getCSS(), so they're
injected into the iframe via renderer.setStyles().
Comic Sans MS is a system font not available on Linux. The cursive
fallback rendered as a script font, giving false negatives. All 8
loaded reading fonts are serif fonts loaded via @font-face, so they
intentionally look similar — font switching is confirmed working.
Studied grimmory-tools/grimmory's ebook-reader style.service.ts and adopted
their approach:
- Replace CSS custom property resolution (getComputedStyle) with a hardcoded
THEME_COLORS map containing concrete fg/bg/link values for all 18 themes
in both light and dark modes. No more variable resolution failures.
- Font family now targets body + body * with !important, overriding book CSS
on every element (matching grimmory's approach).
- Colors use grimmory's aggressive pattern:
html, body { color: ... !important; background: none !important; }
body * { color: inherit !important; background-color: ... !important; }
This forces reading theme colors on ALL book elements, overriding inline
styles and book stylesheets.
- Line height uses !important on p, li, blockquote, dd to override book CSS.
- Removed fragile getComputedStyle calls entirely. getCSS() now receives
themeName and themeMode parameters for direct color lookup.
- Add Comic Sans MS as a test font option to verify font switching works
- Add !important to background-color and color in getCSS() to prevent
book CSS from overriding user's reading theme colors
- Expand font size range from 12-24px to 10-40px, bump default to 18px
- Expand line height range from 1.0-2.5 to 0.8-3.0
- Add restoreDefaults() method that resets reading theme, font, size,
line height, and justify/hyphenate to sensible defaults
- Add ↩️ restore defaults button in top bar underneath the settings gear
Two root causes fixed:
1. Reading theme CSS variables were on document.body, leaking font/color
into chrome UI. Now scoped to #reader-viewport so chrome keeps its own
theme (system font, --text-primary colors) while the reading area uses
reading theme colors/background.
2. getCSS() never received font family, font size, or line height settings.
The settings UI (dropdowns, sliders) saved values but they were never
injected into the book's shadow DOM. Now getCSS() accepts all four
settings and generates proper CSS rules for them.
Changes:
- Wrap foliate-view in #reader-viewport div (absolute positioned between
chrome bars)
- getCSS() reads computed style from #reader-viewport, not document.body
- getCSS() params expanded: fontFamily, fontSize, lineHeight, justify,
hyphenate (removed unused 'spacing')
- Added FONT_MAP to translate setting keys to CSS font-family values
- applyTheme() targets #reader-viewport instead of document.body
- Removed dead #reader-viewport typography rules from foliate-themes.css
(shadow DOM doesn't inherit outer styles), kept only background-color
Two fixes:
1. Remove base typography block from foliate-themes.css. The html/body
rules were unlayered CSS that overrode the chrome theme's layered
body styles, causing dark reading theme text colors (--reader-text)
to apply to the outer chrome UI on dark backgrounds. These styles
are only meant for the shadow DOM, which getCSS() already handles.
2. Move missing typography rules (img, blockquote, a, p orphans/widows)
into getCSS() so the shadow DOM still gets them.
3. Add sun/moon emoji indicators to the light/dark toggle switch.
Add explicit light/dark mode toggle switch to the reading theme settings.
The reading mode defaults based on the chrome theme (dark chrome themes
like tokyo-night default to dark reading mode).
- Add readingMode property to readerShell Alpine component
- Add toggleReadingMode() method that toggles dark class on body
- Add detectChromeDarkMode() to infer default from chrome theme
- Update applyTheme() to add/remove dark class and persist reading_mode
- Add toggle switch UI in settings panel (blue pill style, next to
Reading Theme heading)
- Add reading_mode to default settings in settings-manager
Books were failing to load because foliate-js fetches the file URL
without auth headers, getting rejected by JWT middleware. Also,
reading themes were not being applied because getCSS() didn't
inject background/text colors into the book iframe.
- Fetch book file with Bearer token, pass as File (not URL) to
view.open() so foliate-js can detect format via filename extension
- Add reading theme class to body so foliate-themes.css activates
the correct --reader-bg/--reader-text CSS variables
- Update getCSS() to read theme colors from outer page and embed
them in the iframe CSS string (background-color, color, link
color, selection color)
- Fix Alpine.start() deadlock: move call outside the alpine:init
listener so Alpine actually initializes
- Remove unused tocItem from relocate handler destructuring
- Replace apiGet/apiPut with direct fetch in settings-manager to
fix /api prefix mismatch (reader routes are at /readers/*, not
/api/readers/*)
Major rewrite of the web reader to properly interface with
@bookhoard/foliate-js, replacing the abandoned panel-detection
architecture with direct pan and zoom support built into the
foliate-js FixedLayout renderer.
Template (reader.templ):
- Fix critical bug: x-init config was using literal strings
'{ readerData.X }' inside a quoted attribute, which templ
treated as raw text and never interpolated. Values were never
actually passed to JavaScript. Now uses fmt.Sprintf() with
templ's expression attribute syntax ={ }.
- Pass fileUrl from server so foliate-js can open books directly.
- Redesign bottom bar with foliate-js parity: left/right navigation
buttons, progress slider with tick marks, and zoom controls
(zoom out, percentage display, zoom in, magnifier, pan/select
mode toggle for PDFs).
- Remove panel editor button and enablePanelDetection config.
- Add SVG icon styles for consistent reader controls.
Go types (templates/types.go):
- Expand ReaderMetadata with FormatGroup, MangaType,
ReadingDirection, FileURL, and LibraryID fields needed by
the reader frontend.
Router (internal/router/reader.go):
- Populate new ReaderMetadata fields from database values.
- Construct FileURL from library ID and file path for the
/uploads/library-{id}/* file serving route.
Reader JS (reader.ts):
- Full rewrite modeled on foliate-js Reader class, adapted for
Alpine.js. Opens books via view.open(fileUrl), accesses
view.renderer for zoom/pan/navigation, and wires up keyboard
shortcuts (+/-/0 for zoom, arrows for nav, Escape for magnifier).
- Uses view.isFixedLayout instead of importing FixedLayout class,
avoiding a TypeScript module resolution issue with the Vite alias.
Settings manager (settings-manager.ts):
- Remove dependency on deleted ReaderContext event bus.
- Export loadSettings/saveSettings/syncSettings directly as
standalone async functions.
Cleanup:
- Delete reader-context.ts and reader-events.ts (over-engineered
event system replaced by direct function calls).
- Remove panel_zoom_enabled from ReaderSettings type.
- Add enablePanelDetection, libraryType, formatGroup state
- Add panelDetector instance for dynamic loading
- Update initReader to accept and process configuration
- Conditionally load panel detection only when enabled
- Use dynamic import for foliate-js/panel-detection.js
- Add error handling for panel detection loading
Create minimal Alpine.js integration for foliate-js reader. This file
serves as the entry point that imports foliate-js and provides basic
navigation controls.
Implementation:
1. Import foliate-js/view.js:
- Registers <foliate-view> custom element globally
- Makes foliate reader functional when element is added to DOM
- No explicit EPUB imports needed (foliate detects format automatically)
2. Alpine.js integration:
- Create readerShell data object for UI state management
- Provide nextPage() and previousPage() methods for button controls
- Methods access <foliate-view> custom element's API (next(), prev())
- Simple, functional approach (no OOP, follows project guidelines)
3. Init placeholder:
- initReader() method for future initialization logic
- Currently just logs for debugging
- Will be extended with theme switching, progress sync, etc.
Design Choices:
- Follow project guidelines: No classes, functional/procedural style
- Use Alpine.js for UI state (consistent with rest of application)
- Defer book loading to foliate's internal format detection
- Minimal footprint: Only what's needed to make <foliate-view> work
Next Steps (Future Commits):
- Theme switching logic (apply CSS custom properties)
- Progress sync to API (listen to foliate's relocate event)
- Book loading integration (open book path, handle CFI locations)
- Settings persistence (save theme, font, spacing preferences)
File: web/src/reader/reader.ts (31 lines)
- Clean separation: Foliate handles rendering, Alpine handles UI state
- Type-safe with @ts-ignore for foliate custom element API access
Remove 60+ files from the old reader implementation that relied on
CSS columns pagination, which was fundamentally broken. This includes:
- Comic/Manga format handlers (panel detection, reading direction)
- PDF rendering, bookmarks, annotations, outlines
- Reflowable content pagination (EPUB, FB2, TXT, HTML parsers)
- UI components (gestures, keyboard shortcuts, panel dock system)
- Core navigation and state management
The old implementation used CSS columns for EPUB pagination, but this
approach is fundamentally incompatible with horizontal book layouts
because CSS columns fill vertically first, then wrap horizontally.
This causes only 1 column to be created instead of the expected 92+.
This cleanup prepares the codebase for foliate-js integration, which
uses JavaScript-driven pagination with CFI-based positioning that
actually works for book reading.
Files removed:
- formats/: comic/, manga/, pdf/, reflowable/ (65 files)
- parsers/: EPUB, FB2, TXT, HTML (4 files)
- ui/: gestures, keyboard shortcuts, panel dock, progress tracker (8 files)
- core/: parser-manager, reader-navigation, reader-services, reader-state (4 files)
- reader-shell.ts: Main reader orchestrator (565 lines)
Total: 9,361 lines removed
Reader functionality will be restored via foliate-js integration.
TYPE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS:
1. manga/reading-direction.ts
- Create MangaMetadata interface to replace 'any' type
- Remove redundant 'as any' casts inside detectFromMetadata()
- Add proper typing for manga_type and reading_direction fields
- Function signature now properly typed
2. ui/gestures.ts
- Remove 'as any' cast for comic/manga reader
- TypeScript already knows the type after type guard checks
- Improves type safety and enables better autocomplete
3. ui/keyboard-shortcuts.ts
- Remove 'as any' cast for comic/manga reader
- Type guard on lines 22-24 narrows the type correctly
- No cast needed, TypeScript infers ComicReader | MangaReader
4. reader-shell.ts
- Remove 'as any' cast for comic/manga images array access
- Type checking after format checks ensures correct type
- Change: (state.currentReader as any).images.length
- To: state.currentReader.images.length
BENEFITS:
✅ Compiler catches property name mismatches (e.g., pageCalculationResult)
✅ Better IDE autocomplete and inline documentation
✅ Prevents runtime type errors that would slip through with 'any'
✅ Code becomes self-documenting with explicit types
✅ Easier refactoring with compiler assistance
This change improves overall type safety in the reader codebase by
removing unnecessary type casts that were bypassing TypeScript's
type checking. The 'as any' casts were hiding bugs and preventing
the compiler from catching errors at compile time.
Related to: Type system improvements, bug prevention
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