When converting docx file to EPUB using calibre, Header/ Footer section washed out.

[skasish]

When converting docx file to EPUB using calibre, Header/ Footer section washed out. Can any one help me to resolve the problem??

[Quoth]

A real ebook doesn't have headers and footers or page numbers from a document like a PDF has. There is no sensible way know what size the page is (and absolutely not in advance), so headers and footers inherently don't work.

In theory ebooks could have been designed to support this, but mobi/ azw/KF7, azw3/KF8, KFX, LRF, PDB, OEBPS, epub2 etc don't support it.

PDF does, but it's electronic, not an ebook.
The epub3 fixed layout might, as would Kindle Print Replica, but those also are not true ebook schemes as fixed size page thus a large tablet or laptop or monitor is needed. They are schemes to replicate PDF. One of the Kindle Print replica formats is actually PDF in an Amazon DRM wrapper

[theducks]

Plus, This becomes the purview of the READING APP, as only it knows the current place in the document and screen size.

Calibre's Viewer has Preference settings for this, but many others DO NOT
Still, something in the book would need to be identifiable (Calibre uses TOC chapter headings, calculates page of based upon current sizes)

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by skasish

When converting docx file to EPUB using calibre, Header/ Footer section washed out. Can any one help me to resolve the problem??

There's nowhere to put headers and footers in a flowable ebook format files such as EPUB, AZW, KF8 etc

Originally Posted by Quoth

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In theory ebooks could have been designed to support this, but mobi/ azw/KF7, azw3/KF8, KFX, LRF, PDB, OEBPS, epub2 etc don't support it.

Would have been if TBL had used the Akkadian cuneiform tablet as a model for his web pages rather than the Egyptian papyrus scroll

And then we mightn't have 5 billion doom-scrollers roaming the streets.

BR

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

There's nowhere to put headers and footers in a flowable ebook format files such as EPUB, AZW, KF8 etc


Would have been if TBL had used the Akkadian cuneiform tablet as a model for his web pages rather than the Egyptian papyrus scroll

And then we mightn't have 5 billion doom-scrollers roaming the streets.

BR

Even so OEBPS in 1998 could have added headers & footers. Make a 5″ by 3.75″ paper size on your OS for printer. Select as default.
In Firefox etc, go Print Preview. You now have a paginated website with headers, footers and page numbers.

Why has no-one done a Codex Plugin that does this using current window size as "virtual printer page", and for extra points make it interactive? Oddly the Kindle DXG web browser does this, which is nice, but the problem is that otherwise it was junk, partly because eink, partly because it was poor. Now totally useless.

Yet you have sites like BBC news, that should know better, that auto chain all the previous articles on topic into one forever scroll. I can't see a way to disable it. Disabling scripts totally breaks 1st article content.

How did we get here?