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Originally Posted by Faterson
That's exactly what's happening.
I don't think so. It's definitely not "all or nothing". "Marvin's formatting" re-interprets your original code, but that always only happens in response to the button presses you make in Marvin. The fidelity of rendering has been increasing in Marvin from version to version, and will continue to do so.
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No, it isn't. To use the themes I have to switch away from the "publishers" settings, this is then ignoring ALL of the styles within the ebook. All of my carefully worked out spacing for paragraphs, titles, blockquotes, etc are ignored, and that's just if I want to set the colours, before I even go near changing the font face.
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Originally Posted by Faterson
Yes, that's what Kris is saying. But it really applies to paragraph spacing only. Everything else, including font sizes, is opened in the new book exactly as it was set up in the previous book you had opened in Marvin before opening the new book.
But here is the problem: for publisher A, his default may be font size 10, while for publisher B, his default may be font size 15. They should not be specifying any rigidly fixed font sizes ( 12pt versus 1.2em), but they do it anyway. It's weird, but publishers are weird (often incompetent, in terms of coding) folks.
So, if your preference in book A was to increase the font size by 30%, so that you get to see font size 13 instead of 10, and you then open book B, then a 30% increase from font 15 is font 20, and you end up with ridiculously huge fonts everywhere in that book. That's what keeps happening with badly formatted e-books, and it seems most e-books, including professionally published ones, are badly formatted.
The good news is: all it takes is a few button presses in Marvin to fix the typesetting to your personal liking -- and that setting will remain sticky forever in that particular book in Marvin for you.  |
It's a shame there isn't an override option for those of us who have tweaked our ebooks, given Marvin is a DRM free reader I would think the percentage of users doing this is probably higher than for other software. Having to do those "few button presses" every. single. time is really starting to irritate. I'm sure this wasn't the case in an earlier version of Marvin so it feels like a step backward.
I love using Marvin so please don't think I'm bashing the whole app it's just this one thing is becoming an issue for me.