Question about Margins

danwdoo · 03-06-2009, 11:13 AM

Hello,
I have a question about margin settings in the built in reader. I converted a .lit file to .epub and increased the margins from 5 to 10 to give a little more space on all the sides. The first time I viewed the file it seemed to keep to the larger margins. After I played with resizing the reader window it seems that it lost the additional margin padding and now appears to display the text back at the default narrow margins. Is there a setting for this in the reader so it always pads the margins?

On another note, is there a setting to make/force scrolling the mousewheel perform a pagedown/pageup instead of individual lines?

Love this program!
Danny
0.4.142

kovidgoyal · 03-06-2009, 11:28 AM

hmm that's an odd bug. Open a ticket and attach the epub file. And no, there isn't (yet) a way to customize the shortcuts in the viewer app.

danwdoo · 03-06-2009, 09:50 PM

Ok, I did a little more investigation on this and realized my initial understanding of the symptoms was not correct. I thought it was adding margins because the particular book I was converting has several pages that already have "wide" margins. I went ahead and reconverted the book again and noticed that the actual book text was never showing the added margin size. I tested another tittle and found it worked correctly-even after resizing. It appears like it may be something with that particular title (one of the baen free ones). I've gone ahead and submitted the epub file.

BTW - I love the new sorting feature!

Thanks!
Danny

03-06-2009, 11:13 AM	#1
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	Question about Margins Hello, I have a question about margin settings in the built in reader. I converted a .lit file to .epub and increased the margins from 5 to 10 to give a little more space on all the sides. The first time I viewed the file it seemed to keep to the larger margins. After I played with resizing the reader window it seems that it lost the additional margin padding and now appears to display the text back at the default narrow margins. Is there a setting for this in the reader so it always pads the margins? On another note, is there a setting to make/force scrolling the mousewheel perform a pagedown/pageup instead of individual lines? Love this program! Danny 0.4.142

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03-06-2009, 11:28 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	hmm that's an odd bug. Open a ticket and attach the epub file. And no, there isn't (yet) a way to customize the shortcuts in the viewer app.

03-06-2009, 09:50 PM	#3
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	Ok, I did a little more investigation on this and realized my initial understanding of the symptoms was not correct. I thought it was adding margins because the particular book I was converting has several pages that already have "wide" margins. I went ahead and reconverted the book again and noticed that the actual book text was never showing the added margin size. I tested another tittle and found it worked correctly-even after resizing. It appears like it may be something with that particular title (one of the baen free ones). I've gone ahead and submitted the epub file. BTW - I love the new sorting feature! Thanks! Danny

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