05-25-2011, 10:13 PM | #1 |
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Minimum line spacing?
I've been struggling with this for a while. Maybe someone has done it already and can help.
I'd like less space between lines of text. I've been playing with the line height, minimum line height, and "extra CSS" options in Calibre. One of the settings I tried (specifying a line height in points using CSS) worked in the Calibre viewer. On the PRS-350, though, the text was very garbled. |
05-25-2011, 10:16 PM | #2 |
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line-height depends upon the font in use.
You just have to keep testing for each font. If you have the font embedded in the ePub, then you can try it with Reader Library and see how it looks. If the font is on the reader and being called from there, you'll have to keep loading the ePub every time to test. I too like the line spacing small. |
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05-25-2011, 10:18 PM | #3 |
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I may have used the wrong word. Without changing fonts, I was able to adjust line spacing using CSS code. The line spacing changes appeared in the Calibre ebook viewer and in another ebook viewer. I'm wondering if there's a way to get the adjustments to show up on the PRS-350.
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Thanks to you both, I was finally able to get it right. What worked for me was entering "0" for minimum line height, then entering p {line-height: 1.02} in the Extra CSS section. 1.02 is the number I was looking for - seems to be the minimum spacing for the default font.
Things now look very nice on the reader, but they don't look as good on the computer, and they may not look as good on other devices in the future. Is there a way to have calibre make these changes to a temporary copy to send to the PRS-350, but to preserve the epubs in my library with the original CSS? Last edited by barium; 05-26-2011 at 12:04 AM. |
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i would use 2 libraries in calibre. copy all the books that you want to tweak for line height into a new library then bulk convert them , epub to epub with that extra css setting. call the new library something meaningful like 350 optimised
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I'm glad you got it working! I have always that thought Calibre should create a new file instead of overwriting, when converting to the same format.
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