Thread: Touch Kobo Touch Firmware 2.0
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Old 08-31-2012, 07:54 PM   #1086
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Splicer View Post
I came a long way in creating a linux script that would make the changes (thankfully re-using the python/beautifulsoup script that was provided on the forum before) yet since 2.1.1 is available the speed isn't an issue anymore. The difficulty is in creating something thats generic enough to 'understand' the variations (one could also call it 'a mess') in how epubs are structured w.r.t. chapter-naming, split-file-naming, html-directory) etc. so came to the conclusion that this probably wouldn't make it into a flawless automated process .. so I wonder if it makes sense to continue down that path ..

Now my question is about the margin-issue with epubs .. I quickly checked both Sigil and Callibre for options to change margins throughout an ebook but couldn't find it.
Not being an epub/html expert, I expect that there's probably some margin-settings in some epub's that make them 'insensitive' for Kobo's margin-changes from the menu .. but could use some advice/help to tackle this issue (as when solved, I would be happy enough with 'epubs' and dont go after 'kepubbifying' anymore.
This was discussed a lot earlier in the year. Unfortunately, my searches can't find it. It is probably somewhere in the 1.9.17 firmware thread or the firmware upgrade thread.

But, I did remember how to do it in calibre. There are two options to look at.

- On the "Look & Feel" page, click "Filter Style Information". And then select "Margins". This will remove any margins that are in the source book.
- On "Page Setup", set all the margins to "No margin" (that is one less than zero). This will prevent page margins being set in the output.

I haven't done this for a while, and I think the latter is the more important.

If you don't want to convert the books, or convert them again, the Modify ePub plugin has an option to "Modify @page and body margin styles". That should also do it.
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