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Old 11-27-2013, 04:16 PM   #18
Josieb1
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
@josieb1

Just for my interest, I wonder why you feel the need to hard-code embedded fonts and line-height in calibre. Do the Kobo on-device settings for font and line-height not work for you?
I didn't expect to have to when I first got my Kobo. I added normal epubs via Calibre (most of my reading is side loaded epubs, bought direct from publishers and AllRomance) but I couldn't change the line height using the Kobo settings so I ended up with squashed text which for me was barely readable. Plus I ended up with great big blank spaces at the bottom of each page, sometimes as much as a third of the page.

It was only investigating the line height issue that led me to the blog I linked. Since then by changing the minimum line height to 180 from 120 and inserting the words line-height I can now change the line height (although I think just changing the 120 to 180 has achieved what I needed) plus adding the code for widows an orphans eliminated the footer issue.

Adding my own font is just another thing I did as I use the same font on my paperwhite.

It was the line-height issue that was my biggest problem and apparently that's just a side loaded ePub problem.

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