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Old 05-31-2018, 08:49 PM   #994
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Sepelion View Post
Problem is with all books. Completely reloaded them from Calibre.

They're all having cut-off text at various points, whether I use the three fixes for kepubs fullscreen patch, or just stock.

If nobody else has cut off text in all of their kepubs, then it's just me somehow, but I did factory reset even and tried with stock firmware unpatched, and am still seeing cut-off text in my kepubs with and without the patch, like as in a whole half of some pages cut off, BUT when you go to the next page, you can clearly see it is "resuming where it left off," as in if the bottom of the page's last cut off sentence show's 40% of the top of that sentence, the next page will definitely show the whole bottom 60% of that cut-off sentence.
Now I am not sure what you are talking about. Your first post seemed to be talking about cut off text at the end of each line. This is a known problem with the full screen mode for kepubs and a combination of the CSS in kepubs and the patches are needed to fix this. If this is happening, then I suggest going to the patch thread and discussing it there. Reporting a problem with the patches, is not the purpose of this thread.

But, this seems to be talking about the bottom and top of pages. I occasionally see a problem where the tops of the risers of the first line on the next page will appear across the bottom of a page. Or the descenders from the last line of the previous page appear at the top of the screen. This is always a problem with the font. In all cases, the book has an embedded font, usually a version of Charis SIL, and changing to a different font will solve the problem. I have also sideloaded the font and seen the same problem when using it. I suspect this is really an issue with the font not reporting its details correctly. Someone has said here that when they see this, it is usually with a small font size and that fiddling with the linespacing and font size a bit fixes things. In any case, to the best of my knowledge, none of the patches affect this.

But, again, you seem to be losing more text at the bottom of the page. The gap at the bottom of the page does depend on the font size, line spacing and how the text falls on the page. The renderer should be moving whole lines to the next page. That can mean a larger than normal gap at the bottom if the space left was only slightly smaller than a the space needed for a line. And the larger the font or line spacing used, the larger this space can be. But, I wouldn't expect it to ever be "whole half" of a page. I can't decide whether that is an exaggeration or is what you are actually seeing. With that, I would like to see photos or screen shots to get a better idea of what is happening and the actual book to try and work out why.
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