Thread: View/use consistent actual font size
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Old 06-20-2022, 11:25 PM   #29
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Tawn View Post
So it's equivalent to a browser's Zoom setting: i.e. 25 would be equivalent to 25% zoom. Do kePubs alter this setting or just specify something markedly different in their own css? Perhaps, like a browser, the UI should have a button to return to default zoom (100%).
Yes, it is effectively a zoom setting. Adding a default button sort of makes sense, but, what defaults do they use? The ones that come with the device are probably no good. I think it would just be wasted UI space. Personally, I find it weird that you don't know where in the slider you need to tap to get the setting to what you need. Or at least roughly what you want.
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Ahh, so it is visible somewhere. If it gets way off, is it ok to just edit that file back to the preferred zoom (obviously carefully and with no book open) ?
Yes you can edit the file. But, it isn't exactly practical. You need to connect the device to a PC and edit it. Or use telnet to get into the device. Add that once you change the settings for a book, they are stored in the database against the book. That means if you don't like the font size you selected for a book, you would need to update the database.

There is a way to do this from calibre. My Kobo Utilities plugin has a function to set, or clear, the font settings for each book, whether they have been set or not.
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The multiple screen flashes (after clicking +/- before the resized text appears) gets annoying if you need to do several readjustments before getting to the preferred size. (I suspect it got off when looking at a few previews that were displaying gigantic text.)
I don't see any flashes when adjusting the font size or other font settings on either my Sage or Clara HD. The screen is update cleanly. And I don't remember there being any on other devices. If I do a lot of fiddling, I would probably force a refresh when I finished to get rid of any ghosting, but that's about it.
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IMO displaying the bulk of text at the user's preferred size is the only sensible way. But I'm not here to debate that. We should be able to override the author's setting; that's what user stylesheets and the !important property are for.
That's a completely different argument that has been had here plenty of times. Some love the apps/devices that ignore the books stylesheet, others think they are the spawn of the devil. U think KOReader or Plato can do this. It sounds like one of those would be better for you.
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