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Old 04-20-2016, 06:19 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
I use the OS viewer for PDF (native mode) so there is no on the fly conversion.
Where did you change the CSS?
What was the Viewers settings (it can be set to ignore much of a CSS)


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Originally Posted by sanon View Post
I have an all-text pdf file. It looks ok. on Sumatra and on Foxit Reader. I want to read it on Calibre's viewer but the line spacing is so increased that is not comfortable to read. Tweaking the CSS or other settings hasn't changed anything. Does anyone know the way to change how pdfs look on Calibre's viewer?
As theducks wrote, Calibre does an on-fly conversion to EPUB, it does this for all formats, except EPUB of course.

Converting PDFs is 'hard to do' because the conversion software tries to cater for the full gamut of PDF complexities and idiosyncrasies. See the following for a fuller explanation ==>> Read this before Posting PDF Questions

If you really want to read it with the calibre viewer I would recommend converting the PDF to ePUB (the thread above discusses various alternatives for doing this) and fixing any problems with an ePUB editor, or a word processor, or both.

On a text only PDF you may even be able to tweak the conversion settings to get a near perfect conversion.

BR

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