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GeeksterInSF · 07-27-2009, 10:37 AM

After some trial and error, I finally got Calibre 0.5.14 working exactly the way I wanted: I cut/paste an article from the web into Word, clean it up a bit, save it as HTML, then add it as a book into Calibre. I convert the book to EPUB. The custom override CSS takes care of my preference for the Times New Roman font and 1.5 line spacing. Perfect.

I auto-upgraded to 0.6.1 last night. And my sweet system is broken. Some books cannot be converted to EPUB, never an issue earlier. Those that can be converted to EPUB do not have the Times New Roman font or 1.5 line spacing - even though I've added the "extra CSS" in the new location. Every new book on my Sony PRS-505 now has two near-empty pages at the beginning (cover and Calibre credit) followed by a very narrow body of text in the system font. Long story short, they're unreadable.

I'll explore what's going wrong with 0.6.x at a later time, when I have the bandwidth, but a request for right now: If any of you has experienced similar issues, can you tell me how you fixed them? Failing that, can somebody e-mail me Calibre 0.5.14? I'd appreciate that very much. Thanks.

07-27-2009, 10:37 AM	#57
GeeksterInSF Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	First Take: Disappointed. Sorry. After some trial and error, I finally got Calibre 0.5.14 working exactly the way I wanted: I cut/paste an article from the web into Word, clean it up a bit, save it as HTML, then add it as a book into Calibre. I convert the book to EPUB. The custom override CSS takes care of my preference for the Times New Roman font and 1.5 line spacing. Perfect. I auto-upgraded to 0.6.1 last night. And my sweet system is broken. Some books cannot be converted to EPUB, never an issue earlier. Those that can be converted to EPUB do not have the Times New Roman font or 1.5 line spacing - even though I've added the "extra CSS" in the new location. Every new book on my Sony PRS-505 now has two near-empty pages at the beginning (cover and Calibre credit) followed by a very narrow body of text in the system font. Long story short, they're unreadable. I'll explore what's going wrong with 0.6.x at a later time, when I have the bandwidth, but a request for right now: If any of you has experienced similar issues, can you tell me how you fixed them? Failing that, can somebody e-mail me Calibre 0.5.14? I'd appreciate that very much. Thanks.