PRS-900 High Bevel on Frame stinks

[Kolenka]

This is similar to the 600, and even the 505 does this on ePubs with no margins set. It seems the ADE software assumes that the ePub will have the margin, and a lot of ePubs don't actually set margins most of the time.

[phazlehurst]

So I just spent an hour chatting with two different folks in customer care and they are clueless to the problem. My guess is that this will not get fixed until a lot of people complain that the ePubs lack margin definition and/or they add a "create a margin" mode on the reader itself...

I just "pulled apart" one of the epubs, and I cannot honestly say I understand the format, since while there is CSS that indicates what to do it pretty clearly shows that there are no margins around paragraphs, there's also nothing that I can see in there that defines what to do at the top of the page of the reader...

So if someone could point me to that part of the CSS that'd be supremely helpful... i.e., how exactly do you specify a top or bottom margin for the page? If it's just the paragraph settings, then these are very clearly set to zero, as you can see below:

p.para-indent { display: block;
font-size: 10pt;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;


margin-top: 0em;
margin-bottom: 0em;
margin-left: 0em;
margin-right: 0em;
text-indent: 1.5em;
}

p.para-flush { display: block;
font-size: 10pt;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;


margin-top: 0em;
margin-bottom: 0em;
margin-left: 0em;
margin-right: 0em;
text-indent: 0em;
}

tx

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[phazlehurst]

Perhaps answered my own question i saw this in one of HarryT's ePubs...:

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

is that the trick?

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[netseeker]

Originally Posted by phazlehurst

Perhaps answered my own question i saw this in one of HarryT's ePubs...:

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

is that the trick?

Yes, exactly.

[phazlehurst]

Originally Posted by netseeker

Yes, exactly.

Well... then that stinks... since it implies I have to go through every HTML file and fix them ... bad bad bad... not going to do it across the 80 books I bought from the store.

Arrgh... there must be another way... can it be done in the CSS itself rather than in the HTMLs? Or is this an ePub limitation?

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[tompe]

Originally Posted by phazlehurst

Well... then that stinks... since it implies I have to go through every HTML file and fix them ... bad bad bad... not going to do it across the 80 books I bought from the store.

Arrgh... there must be another way... can it be done in the CSS itself rather than in the HTMLs? Or is this an ePub limitation?

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Yes, you can put it in the css file. That was how I solved the problem for some of my books.

[pvdv]

I'm struggling with the same issue since I installed the 2.0 firmware for the CyBook.

When you put the line:

@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }

in the style.css file right beneath the <p> description it works. Then you don't have to edit all the different (x)html files in the epub.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by pvdv

I'm struggling with the same issue since I installed the 2.0 firmware for the CyBook.

When you put the line:

@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }

in the style.css file right beneath the <p> description it works. Then you don't have to edit all the different (x)html files in the epub.

It works putting it first also. The page specification have nothing to to with <p>.

[pvdv]

Ah!
I´m new to this stuff, so thanks for the tip.

[phazlehurst]

Ok, thanks all... that definitely works... so now I've got more data for our friends at Sony on how to fix this... even better, if they do it, then with "no margin mode" they can ignore it, and we're all happy!

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[Gunnerp245]

@kovidgoyal

Could you convert using calibre?

Gunner...