Thread: Sideloaded Epubs on Forma
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Old 10-25-2018, 07:31 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
Point of order ... as far as I can tell this epub/kepub font-size discrepancy doesn't exist on the Forma or the KA1. It does exist on every other Kobo model I've owned, including the ClaraHD, which is newer than the KA1.
I thought of that while writing the post, but, I didn't want to complicate things
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
I think KTE does have an extra option to store a set of these files on your PC so different versions can be copied to different Kobo models, but I don't use this option myself. I'm happy doing my own one-off copying of the file to the root directory.
Correct. The advantage/disadvantage is that if you have more than one of the same device, you have exactly the same file on both.
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
It is a long long time ago since I set my on device file up, and the idea may have come form an old post of yours. I think that all my file does is take out some of the header and footer whitespace from sideloaded books, by setting explicit top and bottom margins?
That is very likely as the code in the driver is based on code from @jackie_w.
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
Whether it is still doing anything useful is another issue It will depend on what CSS you have in there. For instance, I think the kepub renderer ignores @page and widows/orphans CSS.
It definitely ignores the widows and orphans. I think it ignores @page, but I strip them out when I edit my books, so I don't see them on the device.
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