Thread: Different font sizes in KePubs
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Old 08-05-2018, 08:18 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Derf View Post
Following up... I right clicked on a book title in Calibre, and went to "Edit Book". In the editor, I went up to the "View" menu and made sure that "File Browser" was checked. In the File Browser, I scrolled down to the "Styles" section, and double clicked 'stylesheet.css'

Depending on the book, I sometimes see i) no stylesheet.css, ii) a stylesheet.css that references Font-size : 1em; iii) a stylesheet.css that references Font-Size : small.

Some of the books have embedded fonts, others do not. Some have lots of info in their CSS, others are fairly sparse. It seems i just have to play around with things until I get a template I like for my device and eyes.
Unfortunately, it isn't anywhere near that simple. You will find plenty of books that set a font size on the body, then a different one in the paragraph style which includes a font size and then wrap the text with a span that has a style that includes a size as well. Each one of these sets a relative font size, one makes it smaller and the next makes it larger. And somehow it comes out the size that the book creator wanted. And sometimes you get a few paragraphs where it doesn't quite work. Or an emphasised phrase that is the wrong size.

Things like this are why some people run a conversion on all their books. That usually sorts out a lot of these issues. The alternative is to edit each of them and clean up the code. I tend to do the latter, but nowadays I only do this if I see actual problems. Setting the font on the device when I open a new book is no real problem.
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