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Old 05-08-2013, 10:34 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by taming View Post
Sharkus, if it is not a style sheet issue, but rather the coding of the book itself, then that is not a Kobo fix, but a Publisher issue though. Right? I have seen things that a style sheet fix will take care of, but other things that require some tweaking of the book's html.
The publishers also use stylesheet(s) to control the appearance of the book as well. Mix in some very strange (in my opinion) in-line styles and the whole ebook becomes a pyramid balanced on it's tip. Quite often, I've found it easier to simply dump the publisher style and replace it with my own styles. At least, I don't do things like specifying the body style scattered over two stylesheets and an inline piece.

Sometimes, even trivial items such as renaming embedded font files which I did today while looking at one of Roger64's books. Changed the font file names, changed the @font-face entries. Everything looked fine except the drop caps. See the images below for what they looked like in ADE on a Windows PC. Ended up changing the drop cap css to some code used before and looked okay again.

image 1 = original
image 2 = font files renamed
image 3 = drop cap css modified (let1)

Regards,
David
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