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Old 01-15-2017, 10:13 PM   #1
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How to increase the size of the margins?
Hi,

I want to print out and bind about 20 chapters of an exercise book so I can reference them more quickly when training. The problem is, the margins are so small that when I try to bind the pages I lose the first word or two of every line.

Is there a way I can increase the size of the margins using Sigil so I can get around this problem?
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Old 01-16-2017, 01:46 AM   #2
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The only method that might work is to go to the document stylesheet in Sigil's Styles directory and add this code to the very bottom of the stylesheet:

body {
margin-left: 1.5in;
margin-right: 1.5in;
}

Including the above code into the epub CSS should increase left and right margins to 1.5 inches. You can adjust this to your own preference.
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Old 01-16-2017, 02:51 AM   #3
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or convert the epub to docx using calibre then you have all the MS word pagination, page numbering, header, footers, and margin control tools available. docx is arguably a better format for generating hard copy pages
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Old 01-16-2017, 02:54 AM   #4
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Thanks for the suggestions. I should have thought of using Calibre to change the format!
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Old 01-16-2017, 04:40 AM   #5
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@PKFFW: Also check out Jellby's Prince Calibre plugin, which allows you to generate great-looking PDF files with the external Prince library.
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It's quite likely the EPUB already has two stylesheets, a short one containing the basic page margins and a longer one containing document-specific stuff. But an EPUB knows little of pagination, so specifing an efficient gutter isn't going to be possible.

I assume you received this document in EPUB format? Creating a document intended for print in this format would be bizzare.
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Old 01-17-2017, 09:07 PM   #7
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Will do, thanks for the suggestion.
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I assume you received this document in EPUB format? Creating a document intended for print in this format would be bizzare.
Yes, I purchased it in epub and at the time I didn't really think I might want to quickly and easily reference various pages on a regular basis.
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Or just print the ePub to PDF from calibre's epub viewer - click Printer icon and you'll get

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