Epub Reading Software Differences

brewt · 12-27-2008, 01:30 PM

Attached is a file generated by Calibre.

It looks drastically different in different reading softwares.

I can't set margins in Calibre's, the margins are wide in DE but tolerable, can't even open it in FBReader.

The real concern I have is opening it in Sony's Ebook Library - because that's what it looks like on the sony prs700 - the text is about 1.25" wide, with 2+" margins all the way around.

I'm uploading the epub, the source html (zipped), and the cover jpg. Maybe someone can make it better than I can.

What am I doing wrong?

-bjc

brewt · 12-29-2008, 11:02 AM

Ah. Turns out Calibre was forwarding Word's @Page style rules into the css, which some reading softwares (i.e., Sony's) took to heart and did stuff with. That I didn't want to. and there was no way to get them out without hand-excising them from a text editor (yuck).

The latest version of Calibre strips out @page rules.

-bjc

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12-29-2008, 11:02 AM	#2
brewt Boo-Frickety-Hoo-Erizer Posts: 251 Karma: 686 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Kobo Glo HD!	Ah. Turns out Calibre was forwarding Word's @Page style rules into the css, which some reading softwares (i.e., Sony's) took to heart and did stuff with. That I didn't want to. and there was no way to get them out without hand-excising them from a text editor (yuck). The latest version of Calibre strips out @page rules. -bjc

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