Quote:
Originally Posted by At_Libitum
In Stanza, there is no such choice, you change one preference and only that preference is applied to the book.
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In my experience, this is only an
appearance.
In reality, as far as I could observe it, Stanza changes/disregards CSS properties
by default a lot more than Marvin -- even without the Stanza user touching any settings button. Marvin at least is upfront about any changes made -- and you can always refer to the default HTML look for a comparison (called "publisher settings" in Marvin). Stanza offers no such comparison feature, and
on the quiet it
hides the layout changes it makes, creating the
impression as if no layout changes had been applied... Yet they are there.
I uploaded a
picture gallery where you can compare how Stanza and Marvin handle the display of the same
EPUB test file. Stanza is currently more faithful in preserving the font and background colour properties specified in CSS. But in every other regard, "Marvin's formatting" is more faithful to the publisher's original CSS -- whereas Stanza modifies/disregards the publisher's CSS even without being prompted to do so by the user.
Summary: by default, Stanza changes/disregards the original CSS a lot more than "Marvin's formatting" does so, but Stanza does it "secretly", without notifying the user.