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Old 04-17-2012, 03:26 AM   #1
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Device: calibre, PRS 505
Wink creating epubs at larger font sizes

Sony PRS 505

I have vision problems and my old Sony just won't give me the size that I can view comfortably. I read a lot of books from Gutenberg and I ike to convert them from text files to epub. I tried to use OpenOffice to format a book in font size 14 hoping that would be a base font and I could scale upward from there. When I converted the odt to epub in calibre, the viewer sized the font at 14 but when I viewed it in my Sony, it didn't change at all.

I suspect I'm going to have to go into the epub by first changing the extension to zip and extracting the components. My question is: What do I change? There must be something that gives the base font size.

When I opened the converted epub I looked at "stylesheet.css" and this is what I saw:

Code:
 display: block;
    font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    padding-right: 0;
    padding-top: 0
You see, the font-size says 1.2em which is aout 14 points, but that isn't what my reader gives me.
Thanks,
Paul
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