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Old 01-19-2011, 10:50 AM   #1
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Bold font issue

In some of my epub books, the type is the Bold weight of whatever font I choose on my iPad.

Is it possible to convert the epub so that the Roman weight is substituted for the Bold?

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In some of my epub books, the type is the Bold weight of whatever font I choose on my iPad.

Is it possible to convert the epub so that the Roman weight is substituted for the Bold?

Thank you.
Bold is a font-weight
light, normal, bold, bolder

(Times New) Roman is a font-family (Font Face)
normal, italic, underline, strike-through all belong to the family

so the question? is you book (incorrectly) converting to Bold
or do you despise the choice of font face?
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Bold is a font-weight
light, normal, bold, bolder

(Times New) Roman is a font-family (Font Face)
normal, italic, underline, strike-through all belong to the family

so the question? is you book (incorrectly) converting to Bold
or do you despise the choice of font face?
It is converted to Bold.
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Interesting that no one else has jumped in
I am not a Apple (anything) user. I Use the EPUB output format exclusivly.


What format are you converting FROM and what format are you converting TO?
there are conversion settings that may affect (overide) a poorly formatted document that used Bold everywhere
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As theducks says bold this is just one of the available weights. So try the following as Extra CSS (Preferences -> Common Options) in Calibre:
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body {
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This will only work on DRM-free ePubs.
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Thanks. I'll give that a go.
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I think there is a good chance that this is an OCR conversion where the OCR software thought everything was bold - if the css solution doesn't work you could also use the following Search & Replace regex from Sigil's code view:

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Hmm. I don't understand where to put that code. Can I read up about this in the manual?
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Hmm. I don't understand where to put that code.
Preferences is the gears icon, then select Common Options under Conversion. It took me a while to see it too, but it goes in the text box at the bottom of the page.
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Hmm. I don't understand where to put that code. Can I read up about this in the manual?
Preferences is the gears icon, then select Common Options under Conversion. It took me a while to see it too, but it goes in the text box at the bottom of the page.
Again once you're on the page you may have to scroll down to see the Extra CSS text box.
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Ok. Got that. So now in the Extra CSS panel I have:

body {
font-weight: normal;
}

Then I need to add </?b> there, yes? So I will end up with:

body {
font-weight: normal;
}
</?>


Then do I convert the book again?
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Then I need to add </?b> there, yes?

Then do I convert the book again?
Don't add the </?b>. Do convert the book again.

The </?b> suggestion from ldolse was for editing the ePub in Sigil (an ePub editor). This is a last resort, if Extra CSS does not work.
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I think there is a good chance that this is an OCR conversion where the OCR software thought everything was bold - if the css solution doesn't work you could also use the following Search & Replace regex from Sigil's code view:

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</?b>
Then I need to add </?b> there, yes? So I will end up with:
No, ldolse was referring to editing things via a program called Sigil.
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OK. Thanks.

I'll give it a shot and read up on Sigil.

Thanks everybody for all the suggestions. It is greatly appreciated.
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Problem solved.
I opened the epub in Sigil. In the stylesheet document, the class = "calibre3" has font-weight: bolder. I changed this to normal and all is well.

Hope this helps someone else.

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