Thread: Conversion epub-->azw3 with negative margins
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Old 01-22-2015, 08:27 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by pssquirrel View Post
@Section8: Ah. I see what's happening now.

My source material is epub. I delete all margin-left:0 and margin-right:0 so that it uses the epub reader defaults. To get azw3, I convert epub > azw3 using Calibre and add negative margins in the Extra CSS section.

If I add negative margins to p, div, h1, h2, etc. everything works out fine.

If I use body or html, Calibre will sometimes (but not always) add margin-left:0 and margin-right:0 to the <p> elements, which overrides the negative <body> and <html> margins, rendering them useless.

I don't know how Calibre determines when to add margin-left:0 and margin-right:0 to <p>. If anyone has any clues, I'd be curious. However, I have no problem adding negative margins to <p> elements to get the desired results, and it's working fine.

@EbokJunkie: Thanks for your recipe, but I'm on a Mac!
What I have done is convert ePub > AZW3 and then in the Book editor, I replace all left and right margin of 0 to -30px and it works.
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