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Old 04-13-2014, 03:28 PM   #976
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so its not a "known issue" to you then ?

I have seen it with 3 out of 3 published books. meanwhile, someone else in another thread has selected a public domain book & sent 2 versions ( epub & kepup.epub) to their kobo reader device directly i.e. without calibre & without this plug in. They did not get this very small font effect. That outcome suggests that it is not just a "difference between renderers " thing. That test was done with a Kobo Glo thoguh,not the same device as my aura HD , if that's a factor

please see here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=235018

I am unsure what test to try next: I do have a non standard font size key in my calibre preferences which is why I ask if the plug in looks there. ( I set that a while ago to change how small, large x-large values are changed in conversions but most books don't have those, so mostly the font size key is ignored i think ). Anyway the books I am testing with went through a calibre epub to epub conversion before they were ever sent to my Aura, as that is a standard workflow for me. Amongst other things it adds the no hyphenation property to book CSS for me.
The only other thing I do with books before sending to Kobo is to remove all explicit line-height, and font-family declarations from CSS so that all the on-device options are enabled. I have either no explicit font size for paragraph styles or I leave a simple 1em value in place if already present.

I guess the next obvious test is to fake up a one page test "book" with minimal CSS, e.g. via sigil, & send that both directly & via the plug-in ? to see how the font is then rendered.
- unless there's some way to bring one of the kepub.epub files back from the Aura onto my PC so that I can compare it's CSS with that of the original epub? I think they are buried inside the aura's database though ?

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