Thread: Glo Minimum line spacing unadjustable, fix?
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Old 07-23-2015, 02:13 AM   #27
davidfor
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Originally Posted by leftright View Post
my point is this,

I converted a book in calibre with line height settings, When I opened the book in my Glo I was confused as to why the line height slider wouldn't work, I then spent hours with calibre converting the book with different line height settings trying to establish what the issue was, to no avail. Frustrated and confused I came here and through this forum I discovered that it's a complex issue dependant on the publisher and how calibre converts the CSS properties, and that the only way to rectify the line height issue is by modifying the code and CSS properties.

I don't see why calibre can't be more specific on how each eReader handles the flattened CSS "stuff" by incorporating in Calibre's conversion thingy a message which instructs the user what to do to enable the eReader's adjusters to work, after all if you guys know that Calibre flattens the CSS stuff, whatever that means, surely the dev's could build in some type of feedback which notifies the user that some reader settings wont work.

My anger at this lack of feedback stems from the fact that I have a large collection which I've been converting in batches as I go along, I now have to return to each book and individually reconvert with remove "line-height", very very annoying and time consuming.
So, what happens in a house where people share the library but use different ereaders? Or when someone upgrades from one brand to another?

Except in one case, a Calibre conversion explicitly stays away from any device dependent options. This is to give the best experience to as many people as possible. Personally, if calibre did implement device specific settings like you want, I would be complaining at least as loudly about them as you are about the lack of them.

The only place it does is the image size. There are profiles to set the maximum image size to be used. These probably made sense for older devices, but all the currently available devices will resize the images properly.

And to handle what you want, you can set the default options for a conversion. Any new conversion will use these. But, calibre stores the selected options when you convert a book. You need to clear these, if you convert it again.

And finally, I can't think of the last time I had a book whose line height didn't adjust without me editing it. Admittedly, I always have it set to the minimum height on the device, but I haven't had a book recently that didn't respect this.
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