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JSWolf
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Originally Posted by LostHisMarbles View Post
Greetings for starters

As per title, looking for a viewer covering the following:
1) can run on MacOS (Tahoe)
2) allows for modifying character spacing
3) allows for modifying word(s) spacing
4) allows for modifying line spacing
5) has RGB/HEX configurable foreground (font) and background

If such a one exists?

This isn't really about being fussy, more about getting old!
Reading from Calibre's stock e-viewer is killing me. It allows for 1) and 5), naught on the rest; and for me mind, everything's too tight, cramped together and somehow way, way too sharp? Thick? Like.. semi-boldened fonts. I mean i use SF Pro Text everywhere, but it's never as "thick" or "pronounced" as it is on this e-viewer; nor as cramped.

Trying Apple's Books (no go, what a surprise) i realised that spacing is as important to me, by now, as fore/back ground HEX-RGB.
So, here we are. If any of you know of one, by all means help out

My thanks for your time, regardless,
LHM

* I didn't see where else i could put this thread, i know it' mainly an iOS subforum; my apologies.
The best viewer for your needs would be the one that comes with calibre. For the things you want that the viewer doesn't do, you have the editor to make the changes to get what you want.

The cramped fonts are the way the kerning is done with the fonts you are using. It's going to be the same on all eBook viewers that use Kerning.
  1. Yes
  2. No, but you can use the calibre editor to add in letter spacing to the CSS.
  3. No, but you can use the calibre editor to add in word spacing to the CSS.
  4. Yes
  5. Yes
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