05-12-2019, 05:43 PM | #1 |
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downsides to having disable font rescaling always on?
I have an odd problem with one book producing weird font rescaling when I convert it to azw3 from mobi. I can fix it by checking the box "Disable font size rescaling" in the Look & Feel. What problems might I experience if I do that in the Preferences for all books?
( Here's the problem book: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=319996 ) |
05-12-2019, 08:57 PM | #2 |
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it means the books you read will no longer have consistent font sizes.
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05-12-2019, 10:56 PM | #3 |
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Do you mean that book A could be displayed with a different font size than book B? In the Look & Feel Styling tab I do have the Fonts box checked for information I want completely removed.
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05-12-2019, 11:26 PM | #4 |
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It means that the final product of each book will retain any specific font sizes that had been set by the book creator, such as for headings or epigraphs. Unfortunately, the book creator sometimes also sets strange sizes for body text. (Those might be set in <body> or <p> or <div> or with inline tags within the html itself.)
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Other than editing the css is there some way to override the author's font sizes so that all of my books display the same? I don't know if I'm an outlier but I feel like the reader ought to have the final say on stuff like that. E.g., all regular paragraphs should use a font-size of 1em and then I can bump it up or down in my e-reader. |
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05-13-2019, 11:10 AM | #6 |
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I 'edit' every CSS
some just take a look-see <1min other need major surgery ( Granny) OMG minutes My goal is the main body of the work (typical <p>) is my standard (implied 1em), The proportions of the rest should follow (scale change in<body>) |
05-13-2019, 11:51 AM | #7 |
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ditto.
For me, it is mostly automated. I use the extra css and filters in calibre and run each new book through an epub to epub conversion. That takes out silly fonts, over-rides widows & orphans... then I manually inspect and tweak as needed, and remove unwanted next book previews, also by, adverts, copy write pages... so I can get straight to the story and know that it will end q at 100% progress. when I tweak with sigil I also prettify, and remove unused styles, for ease of future tweaking |
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It never made sense to me that an entire multi page preface should be in smaller font then the rest of the book. maybe that works in hardback, but not on an e-reader |
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Obviously, Non-fiction will probably be a majority of exceptions, with tables, charts... |
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05-13-2019, 04:40 PM | #10 |
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Thanks everyone; I'm glad to know that the hand editing I've been doing is not abnormal.
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05-16-2019, 11:56 PM | #11 |
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When converting from an e-book source, I leave "Disable font rescalling" check on, unless the book in question has, to my opinion, poor font size choices.
Deciding on whether I'll fix those manually, or by letting Calibre scale the fonts, is on a case by case basis. If using Calibre font scalling, I find calibre shrinks smaller font sizes *way* too much, so I use this font size key instead of the default: 10.5, 11.0, 11.5, 12.0, 13.5, 17.0, 20.0, 22.0, 24.0 |
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Let the reader adjust the font size, margins, line spacing, etc. on their e-reader. Code:
html, body, body div, span, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, abbr, address, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, samp, small, strong, sub, sup, var, b, i, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, figure, footer, header, menu, nav, section, time, mark, audio, video, details, summary { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; } p { display: block; font-size: 1rem; text-indent: 1.5rem; text-align: left; } h1 + p, h2 + p, h3 + p { text-indent: 0rem; } h1, h2, h3 { font-weight: bold; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2rem; } h1 { font-size: 1.2rem; } h2 { font-size: 1.1rem; } |
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