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Originally Posted by Muttly
Well, they are formatted well enough for Kindles to display correctly!
I'd be interested in the logic behind your statement.
The .epub file clearly cannot know where any reader using it will display page breaks, so it's hard to see how it can be formatted in such a way that would cause the Kobo to get it wrong.
Remember that the heading concerned is NOT embedded in the file text. The Kobo should render a page and then insert it between the header and footer that IT generates.
It seems to have correctly calculated the vertical page size, but then rendered it at the top of the screen, rather than underneath the heading, which explains the overlarge gap before the footer.
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Try checking into such items as widows and orphans (control how paragraphs are split between pages) -- these should have been left behind in hard copy but were carried forward into epubs, check into the top/left/right/bottom margin settings. Ebooks that specify over-large page margins (one horrible example on my Kobo Glo had .87" left/right margins on a devices with a 3.6" screen width) are not that uncommon.
Also, remember that Kobo follows the embedded styles rather than replacing them with a builtin generic stylesheet. If the publisher takes care to produce a decent product, the ebook can look great. If the publisher does not seem to know or care about what the ebook actually looks on screen -- such things as defining image size in pixels that look ridiculously small on a higher definition screen instead of using percentages or other relative measurements so the displayed image size is very close to the same whether you have a 600x800 or a 1404×1872 display, fonts that are defined in pixels or other absolute measurement, specifying line spacing that looks close to double spacing, etc., the ebook looks like crap.