Thread: mobi vs azw3
View Single Post
Old 06-27-2014, 07:11 PM   #8
Bigo2
Zealot
Bigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchforkBigo2 can load mercury with a pitchfork
 
Posts: 130
Karma: 48786
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Australia - Adelaide
Device: Kindle3
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Get rid of the line-height. They have no meaning in AZW3. AZW3 defaults to a large line height and there's no way in the CSS to reduce that. Amazon's firmware does not allow that. The only way to reduce the line height of KF8 is to use a font that's got the metrics adjusted for a smaller line height on the Kindle. My modified CharisSIL is just such a font since I did tweak the metrics so it has a smaller line height.
Hi JSWolf - this is interesting, the line-height has no meaning in azw3, so why the Calibre azw3 conversion puts it there?

I changed css as you recommended - no difference on my Kindle...

Could I possibly borrow the CharisSIL font you modified?

Hi theduck, I tried to change the line-height to 1.0, then when viewing it using Calibre the lines are close together (actually too close for my taste), however it does not make any difference in my Kindle 3...

In my Kindle "reader.pref" settings, the LINE_SPACING=1. I tried to change it to 0.5 but it does not work, I actually finished with LINE_SPACING=5. If this could be set to less then 1 it would probably be the solution to my problem...

Last edited by Bigo2; 06-27-2014 at 07:13 PM.
Bigo2 is offline   Reply With Quote