01-22-2013, 12:58 AM | #16 |
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About the dropcaps, I could not get it to work either. I changed the eighth value in the font size rescaling key to 60 and the size of the dropcap letter grew larger, but the size of the space beneath it also grew. And this with line spacing and line height set to zero. I've also fooled around with the epub and changed the value of the line height there, but still no difference. I exploded the azw3 and changed the value there but still nothing.
The thing is that the changes I made would appear okay in Calibre viewer (dropcap letter size okay and space beneath it okay) but in my Kindle and in Kindle previewer, the space beneath the letter is back. I am really totally at a loss. |
01-22-2013, 01:09 AM | #17 |
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Calibre viewer is essentially a ePub viewer and everything gets a basic conversion before it is viewed in this viewer. So it is not a great viewer to be viewing non-epub books for formatting issues.
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01-22-2013, 04:18 PM | #18 |
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Actually, I believe it's a rendering problem in the Kindle firmware not the format itself.
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01-23-2013, 06:11 AM | #20 |
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Yes, @jgaiser, I have also come to the same conclusion -- that the kindle firmware itself dictates that the new format have larger line spacing. My theory is that they wanted to make the small, medium and large line spacing options more usable. In the old format, most people just used the "large" option because the small and medium were too squashed together.
A@JSWOLF, thanks! I'll try these fonts out. In the meantime, I have opted to choose AZW3 despite the above-mentioned issues. I am going to have to learn to live with dropcaps with large spaces beneath them, and with switching to "medium" line spacing every time I open an AZW3 book. |
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Hi, I am french and my english is not perfect
My question: After converting a word document through Calibre in EPUB some lines are not horizontal but vertical from time to time Could you help me with? Thanks so long André |
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I do not understand what you mean by vertical. Maybe something wrong with the margins in your original document?
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01-25-2013, 02:16 AM | #23 |
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I finally did it! LOL.
After a lot of gnashing of teeth and other dramas, I finally solved the mystery of why my dropcaps had extra spaces underneath. It had to do with the margin at the bottom. Sheesh. Anyway, here is a screencap of the final product on Kindle Previewer, with the dropcap letter finally the right size and right in place. For other noobs like me who might be interested, this is what I did. First, I tweaked <span.dropcap> in sigil, with the following end result: span.dropcaps { float: left; font-size: 80px; line-height: 0; padding-top: 1px; margin-top:-.375em; margin-bottom: -.5em; margin-right:1.35px; font-weight: bold; } I guess that is an ugly code, or whatever, but it worked! Also, when converting from epub to azw3, I made sure the eighth value in the font size rescaling key was the same as my font-size (80). And voila! So now my only issue with azw3 is the large line spacing, but I have learned to live with that. IMHO, azw3 just looks much, much better than mobi. Call me OCD but there you go. |
01-25-2013, 04:02 AM | #24 |
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I also encountered problems with dropcaps and tested your dropcaps style. Unfortunately, it didn't work on my K3. Furthermore, it proved that the azw3 output generated by Calibre doesn't match the KF8 output generated by the latest version of KindleGen as the Kindle for PC (K4PC) and Kindle 3 (K3) screenshots show.
Can you post your test .epub? |
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Hello, everyone!
I have the same problem regarding line spacing in AZW3 visualization on my Kindle 5, after conversion from an EPUB. I have tried using different line height settings in Calibre, but this method doesn't seem to affect the final result. Even with different conversion settings, the line spacing is always the same, and I consider it too high even when set to minimum (on Kindle visualization settings). This is particularly noticeable if compared to the same book converted into Mobi format, instead of AZW3. Is this a Kindle bug? Is there a way to "solve" the problem? Any suggestions or opinions? |
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As for Kindlegen, I haven't tried using it yet. I will try it and get back to you here with my findings. |
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There are some things you might be missing. One, did you tweak the 8th (last) value in the font size key in calibre? make sure it matches the size of your dropcap font that you could see in sigil. For instance, if the dropcap size in sigil is 3em, your 8th value should be 48 because (I think) the values here are in px. Two, what about your other settings in Calibre? In Look and Feel, here are my settings (only for books with dropcaps): disable font size rescaling unchecked base font size: 16 font size key: 12.0, 12.0, 14.0, 16.0, 18.0, 20.0, 22.0, 48.0 -->>change the last value depending on your dropcap font size) minimum line height: 120% Line size, line height and everything else zero or blank Also, your ebook will look different in sigil and calibre (and maybe also kindle for pc -- I didn't even know that kindle for PC could now read AZW3.) Try using Kindle Previewer. Finally, here is another dropcap code you could try to use. This is the one I used for this particular ebook: .drop { float: left; font-size:3em; margin-top: -.3em; margin-bottom: -.5em; margin-right: .05em; } Good luck! |
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01-26-2013, 12:04 AM | #29 |
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Okay, I have solved problem number one.
Problem number two is when there are more than one dropcap styles in an epub, where dropcap2, for instance, is smaller than dropcap 1, for instance, it is 60px and dropcap 1 is 80px. I have tried changing the size but it is either as big as dropcap 1 (80px) or too small, like a regular letter. If I change the second-to-the-last (the 7th) value in the font size key in calibre, the fonts become the same size (dropcap 1 becomes smaller, assumes the size of dropcap 2). I can't figure it out so please |
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