Thread: [GUI Plugin] Modify ePub
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Old 10-04-2019, 03:00 AM   #1255
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Originally Posted by otapi View Post
It is OK to this way in one book, but not in hundreds of books. I will look into this plugin's code and will add an option to strip background-color from the CSS.
Modify ePub really isn’t built for that type of manipulation. The engine isn’t designed for it, in the same way that cars aren’t built to be driven underwater. To clarify, from a post contemporary to the ones you looked at:

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Originally Posted by ldolse View Post
I think the trick would be to apply all the css modifications at once though, so it would require a bit of a re-design of the current function - basically a top level modify css, then a bunch of sub-functions - sort of like heuristics.
That’s a significant undertaking, and not one anybody has really wanted to tackle. There are a lot of ways to get that wrong, and referring someone to calibre’s ebook editor for a case-by-case solution is far easier (and safer).
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