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How to determine which CSS lines are specifying a font?
I have a book that was pretty terribly set up by the publisher, and I've had to fix some of the CSS in it. However, I'm having trouble with getting Calibre to recognize the fonts for it. It came with all of the font files it was supposed to, but two of them were referenced incorrectly in the stylesheet and also had invalid properties in the actual font files (they were bold fonts but not actually self-identifying as bold). So, I pulled the fonts out, added them to a directory where Calibre can find them, and attempted to polish the book to embed them.
The problem is, Calibre seems to be insisting that the stylesheet is specifying different properties than one of the fonts has, even though I can't find those properties anywhere in the stylesheet. Specifically, what I'm seeing is this: Quote:
Is there a way to determine what lines Calibre is using to compose the font specification? If not, how can I figure out what I'm missing here? I'm running Calibre 7.12 on macOS 14.5, if it's relevant. |
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06-26-2024, 09:52 PM | #2 |
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bold is the old way (and older readers want that as well as EPUB2 )
the numbers are the newer way of specifying font-weight (I have seen a chart. there are more number levels than the old) Each font has an internal table (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic). That is 4 font files to make up the complete FAMILY (not al faces have all 4, so substitutes are sometimes called out and the check will complain that the names do not match the Family |
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06-26-2024, 10:36 PM | #3 | |
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Did you hack the epub and manually add files to it or did you use the Calibre Editor and select Add/Import new files? You could also install a font program, like Sourceforge and check what is specified in the font file. |
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I've been using FontForge to check things with fonts in order to do things like get the font family name (because it was very wrong in the stylesheet originally for this font; it was listed as the font filename rather than the font family name). I've also been able to inspect other relevant properties with it, too (see the attachment for a screenshot). Quote:
If that's not currently an option, though, this should be able to get me the info I need. It'll just take me a while to find where every use of every relevant element is. |
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Hmmm. Doesn't seem like I can edit posts, so I guess I need to make a new reply?
But, I just used that Live CSS tool and went through every element in the book that uses one of the classes that references the font I'm having issues with, and every computed style came up with a font-weight of 700 and a font-stretch of 75%. I'm absolutely mystified as to where that mismatch is coming from. Is there anything else I can try to track this down? |
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font-stretch?
FWIW My Kobo's don't like some valid CSS being used: letter-spacing causes words to run together. eg ChapterTitle IMHO K.I.S.S. (an least for some things) ?? Isn't Live CSS a temporary (that session) operation?? I use the 'Inspector' to try and decode the CSS nesting. Right click on a / the problem paragraph (in the Preview pane): Inspect element |
06-28-2024, 05:59 AM | #9 |
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Why don't you post the book here. Maybe someone will spot the issue.
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