Register Guidelines E-Books Today's Posts Search

Go Back   MobileRead Forums > E-Book Software > Calibre > Conversion

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 02-28-2011, 09:27 AM   #1
PodPeople
Connoisseur
PodPeople doesn't litterPodPeople doesn't litter
 
PodPeople's Avatar
 
Posts: 94
Karma: 134
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Houston, TX
Device: Nook Simple Touch, iPad 3, Kindle 4B
Setting optimum font size for Aluratek Libre

I have been bothered by the huge jump in font sizes between zoom levels 1 and 2 on the Aluratek Libre. On ePubs zoom 1 displays 31 lines of text and zoom level 2 displays 23 lines (using the serif font). I would like a font size in between these two. Here are the number of text lines for each zoom level:

Zoom 1 - 31
Zoom 2 - 23
Zoom 3 - 20
Zoom 4 - 18
Zoom 5 - 15
Zoom 6 - 11
Zoom 7 - 9

I played around with changing the base font size in Calibre. I found that if I set it to either 8 or 10 the number of lines of text per zoom level is as follows:

Zoom 1 - 42
Zoom 2 - 31
Zoom 3 - 26
Zoom 4 - 24
Zoom 5 - 20
Zoom 6 - 15
Zoom 7 - 12

Whereas before there was only one step between 31 lines per page and 20 lines per page (zoom levels 1 - 3), by setting the base font size to either 8 or 10 you get two steps (zoom levels 2 through 5). I think this gives a more optimal range for choosing font sizes.

I don't know whether this would work the same way on the Jetbook or Jetbook Lite -- they have different font size options.

Last edited by PodPeople; 05-09-2011 at 10:37 AM.
PodPeople is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Solved - setting font size for optimum reading PodPeople Ectaco jetBook 3 05-05-2011 03:01 PM
Max Optimum File Size Fabe ePub 7 10-10-2010 03:57 AM
How many font sizes on Jetbook Lite and Aluratek Libre? PodPeople Ectaco jetBook 9 04-16-2010 11:34 PM
LIT->LRF Conversion - Quirky Base Font Size Setting orion2001 Calibre 6 09-27-2009 12:10 AM
Optimum Image Size and format for PRS-505 aru Sony Reader Dev Corner 9 03-07-2008 07:22 PM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:38 PM.


MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.