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Old 05-04-2021, 03:25 PM   #10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrik View Post
I bought a book today that seems to be an Indesign export. Every word has its own formatting. On my ereader there are huge margins, so it's not readable.

I have tried changing/removing stuff, but haven't been able to make anything helpful.

Ideas?
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Code:
<body id="xx" lang="en-US" style="width:396px;height:612px" xml:lang="en-US">
		<div class="Basic-Text-Frame" id="_idContainer250">
			<div style="width:5760px;height:9540px;position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;-webkit-transform-origin: 0% 0%; -webkit-transform: translate(0px,5.83px) rotate(0deg) scale(0.05);transform-origin: 0% 0%; transform: translate(0px,5.83px) rotate(0deg) scale(0.05);">
				<p class="Chapter-Title ParaOverride-1"><span class="CharOverride-6" id="_idTextSpan41405" style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:1513.44px;letter-spacing:-0.24px;">Time </span><span class="CharOverride-6" id="_idTextSpan41406" style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:2402.9px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;">to </span><span class="CharOverride-6" id="_idTextSpan41407" style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:2917.84px;letter-spacing:-1.76px;">Forgive</span></p>
				<p class="Drop-Cap ParaOverride-1"><span class="CharOverride-14" id="_idTextSpan41408" style="position:absolute;top:2537.09px;left:-34.4px;">“</span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41409" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:326.11px;">I </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41410" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:515.94px;letter-spacing:0.87px;">want </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41411" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:1107.67px;letter-spacing:-1.22px;">you </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41412" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:1567.94px;letter-spacing:-0.62px;">to </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41413" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:1877.72px;letter-spacing:1.83px;">imagine </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41414" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:2773.35px;letter-spacing:-0.23px;">your </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41415" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:3321.68px;text-rendering:optimizeLegibility;letter-spacing:0.73px;">reflection </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41416" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:4357.37px;letter-spacing:1.21px;">in </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41417" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:4666.41px;">a </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41418" style="position:absolute;top:2589.14px;left:4887.07px;letter-spacing:1.9px;">beautiful </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41419" style="position:absolute;top:2853.14px;left:326.11px;letter-spacing:1.48px;">mirror—the </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41420" style="position:absolute;top:2853.14px;left:1662.32px;letter-spacing:0.75px;">person </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41421" style="position:absolute;top:2853.14px;left:2481.02px;letter-spacing:-0.64px;">who </span><span class="CharOverride-3" id="_idTextSpan41422" style="position:absolute;top:2853.14px;left:2968.21px;letter-spacing:1.02px;">caused </span>
Looking at the code, what you have is a fixed layout epub3 file. You need an application or ereader device that will handle that format. Try renaming it from filename.epub to filename.fxl.kepub.epub and see how it looks on your Forma (the fxl.kepub.epub extension tells your Kobo ereader it's a fixed layout epub3). Check the Kobo Epub-spec at Github under the Sideloading for Testing Purposes for more information.

Last edited by DNSB; 05-04-2021 at 03:30 PM.
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