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Old 01-04-2010, 03:53 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by EowynCarter View Post
Even if being able to change stuff would be nice, if one want some really spesific margins, it's no excuse for the publishers to do thier job that poorly. (And that's not only margins, that's ocr error, bad formating, and all these stuff you see in e-books, and very rarely in p-books.)
I'll agree on OCR/etc. I've seen far too many obvious errors in ebooks. It's particularly annoying as they are presumably starting from the same data (i.e., the text in a digital form) for both electronic and print.

But the margin thing seems to be a case of their setting the formatting assuming certain text and display sizes and I'm not sure how much that's a problem with how the publishers specify this stuff and how much is the rendering engine. This seems to be specific to ePub, too.
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