Overlapping Text in Epub

[VideoPac]

Hello,

Some epubs are unreadable when I try to increase the font size.
Here is an example:


If I decrease the font size the words are not overlapping anymore but the characters are now very small and too hard to read on my screen:


This is not the first time I encounter this problem, I had to give up reading many books because of that.

Is there a way to fix it? Thanks

[jhowell]

That would be a fixed layout EPUB. Those are not supported in calibre and are problematic in general because they do not reflow to reflect the font, screen size, etc.

[VideoPac]

Originally Posted by jhowell

That would be a fixed layout EPUB. Those are not supported in calibre and are problematic in general because they do not reflow to reflect the font, screen size, etc.

OK I understand, thanks for the answer...

Is there ANY workaround I could use? CSS or something else?

I also have the AZW3 and MOBI formats but for some reason they are even more unreadable, especially the graphics, one example:


The EPUB format is still the best I have, everything is displayed perfectly when I keep the font very small...

[DNSB]

If what you are viewing is a reflowable epub, one other possible issue is that the line height is not set using unitless values. I.e. set line height using line-height: 1.1em instead of line-height: 1.1 as an example.

Check line-height on the Mozilla developer site for some examples.

[tym]

Originally Posted by jhowell

That would be a fixed layout EPUB. Those are not supported in calibre and are problematic in general because they do not reflow to reflect the font, screen size, etc.

With all due respect. I have read a TON of ebooks calibre viewer. All my ebooks are epub. Always have been.

My guess on the issue, need to change the settings to "flow" in the viewer, as well check page layout.

With all due respect, I think its just a simple setting issue or two.

Prefrences....Page Layout......Put on "Flow" for scrolling.

That will give you a single screen, and you can scroll the text. If your wanting double screen, like a book view. Then I may be wrong, and epup is a issue with that setting.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by tym

With all due respect. I have read a TON of ebooks calibre viewer. All my ebooks are epub. Always have been.

My guess on the issue, need to change the settings to "flow" in the viewer, as well check page layout.

With all due respect, I think its just a simple setting issue or two.

Prefrences....Page Layout......Put on "Flow" for scrolling.

That will give you a single screen, and you can scroll the text. If your wanting double screen, like a book view. Then I may be wrong, and epup is a issue with that setting.

Flow (scroll) vs Paged is NOT the issue. That affect the way REFLOWABLE (typ EPUB2) is presented (only)
Fixed layout is closer to PDF and is also NOT reflowable.