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Originally Posted by Sharkus
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Quite possibly true, hence why I've asked for the URL as I can have a look at this. We have found that the publisher defined css in an epub can override / prevent our ability to change the font size and also font type / family.
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that is extremely common - I see it with most epub format library loans,. but with books sold by kobo in kobo's own format there is surely a case for telling that publishers that you will not allow that or that you will remove it when you build the kebub (assuming that it is Kobo who generate the kepub versions)
back to vanilla epub format -
telling publishers what they can't do is probably a waste of breath, but by far the worst code issue when reading epub on a Kobo device is the ubiquitous line-height: 1.2; liberally sprinkled around within the CSS.
I've lost count of how many times I've had to break into a book & delete that, just to make it readable at my preferred settings.
This seemingly innocuous line of code does not stop the kobo font size controls from working directly but what i does do is squash the lines into an unreadable mess as font size goes up but line height stays locked..
what I'd like - in all firmware & apps, is a preference that asks "do you want to empower your reader to override publisher's fixed font family/ line height/ margin settings" Y/N