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charleski · 05-08-2010, 08:37 PM

Ah, the real problem here is one of calibre's slightly annoying quirks.

Calibre places an @page rule in the header of each html file, and this overrides any @page rule in the css.

The solution is to edit all your html files and remove the style that calibre has inserted at the top. It will look like this:

Code:

<style type="text/css">
		@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style>

Once this has gone, then you can control the top and bottom margins from the @page rule in the css file.

Be aware that ADE seems to add a small top margin of its own (even with no top margin, there is still a small gap at the top) - this is on the PRS-505, other implementations may differ. I find a top margin of 9pt works well, and visually matches the 12pt right and left margins I use.

05-08-2010, 08:37 PM	#9
charleski Wizard Posts: 1,196 Karma: 1281258 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505	Ah, the real problem here is one of calibre's slightly annoying quirks. Calibre places an @page rule in the header of each html file, and this overrides any @page rule in the css. The solution is to edit all your html files and remove the style that calibre has inserted at the top. It will look like this: Code: <style type="text/css"> @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style> Once this has gone, then you can control the top and bottom margins from the @page rule in the css file. Be aware that ADE seems to add a small top margin of its own (even with no top margin, there is still a small gap at the top) - this is on the PRS-505, other implementations may differ. I find a top margin of 9pt works well, and visually matches the 12pt right and left margins I use.