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Old 03-11-2020, 05:30 AM   #3
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BTW, I think 12 pt or 1 em is a normal default body text size. But I could be wrong.
0 may not do what you think it does. Make sure the line spacing setting on the Kindle is working, if not try 115% for spacing. A real zero is ascenders touching descenders and with many fonts about 120% seems correct, but 115% in Calibre means any weird stuff from imported docx is overridden and user can change linespacing on all kindles and all epub based ereaders.

Select Tablet rather than Kindle to avoid resizing images. Otherwise if the images are correct, they may be too small. The Output profile only seems to affect image size.

I set left & right for mobi, dual mobi and AZW to 0. You need to edit the ebook css if you want less than the minimum Kindle margins, which are normal, big or huge.

Edit & save Libre Office Writer as ODT, not DOC or DOCX as using those results in conversion on every open. Do an extra Save As in DOCX for Calibre as the best input formats for conversion are epub2 and docx. Also make an epub2 from docx in Calibre FIRST, then in Calibre convert that epub to azw3 (or Dual Mobi if you don't know if a Kindle does AZW3/KF8). Curiously the conversion Docx -> epub -> azw3 (or dual mobi) works better than docx -> azw3 direct.
Azw/KF8 is really a sort of Amazon wrapper on epub2 to optionally allow Amazon DRM instead of Adobe ADE DRM.
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