Paragraphs between Pages and Calibre

[benjaminsolah]

I changed that. It still looks huge.

sup{
font-size: 67%;
vertical-align: 33%;
}
sub{
font-size: 67%;
vertical-align: -10%;
}
.s1{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 0.0000%;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
text-transform: none;
}
.s2{
margin-bottom: 1.9505%;
}
.s3{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 0.0000%;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
text-transform: none;
}
.s4{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
text-transform: none;
}
.s5{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: italic;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 0.0000%;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
text-transform: none;
}
.s6{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: italic;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
text-transform: none;
}
.s7{
margin-bottom: 1em;
text-align: center;
}
.s8{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-top: 1em;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
text-transform: none;
}
.s9{
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
}
.s10{
font-size: 62.5000%;
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
}
.s11{
background: #FFFFFF;
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
text-align: center;
}
.s12{
background: #FFFFFF;
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
}
.s13{
text-align: center;
}
.s14{
padding-left: 9.2149%;
padding-right: 1.0565%;
}
.s15{
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
margin-top: 1.6254em;
text-align: center;
}
.s16{
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
text-align: center;
}
.s17{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 0.0000%;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 11.7030%;
text-transform: none;
}
.s18{
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
}
.s19{
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
text-align: center;
text-indent: 0.0000%;
}
.s20{
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
padding-right: 11.7680%;
text-align: center;
}
.s21{
margin-bottom: 1.9505em;
padding-right: 11.7030%;
}
.c1{
font-size: 100.0000%;
}
.c2{
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-style: italic;
}
.c3{
color: #000000;
font-size: 100.0000%;
}
.c4{
font-size: 75.0000%;
}
.c5{
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-weight: bold;
}
.c6{
color: #000000;
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-weight: bold;
}
.c7{
font-size: 91.6667%;
}
.c8{
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-style: italic;
}
.c9{
color: #000000;
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-style: italic;
}
.c10{
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-style: italic;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.c11{
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-weight: bold;
}
.c12{
color: #000000;
font-size: 62.5000%;
}
.c13{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-weight: bold;
}
.c14{
color: #000000;
font-size: 83.3333%;
}
.c15{
background: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 100.0000%;
}
.c16{
background: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-style: italic;
}
.c17{
color: #000000;
font-size: 75.0000%;
}
.c18{
font-size: 100.0000%;
}
.c19{
color: #262626;
font-size: 75.0000%;
font-weight: bold;
}
.c20{
color: #262626;
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-style: italic;
}
.c21{
color: #262626;
font-size: 100.0000%;
}
.c22{
color: #262626;
font-size: 75.0000%;
}
.c23{
color: #000000;
font-size: 83.3333%;
font-style: italic;
}
.c24{
color: #660000;
font-size: 100.0000%;
}
.c25{
font-size: 100.0000%;
font-style: normal;
}
.c26{
font-size: 100.0000%;
text-decoration: underline;
}

[benjaminsolah]

Got the cover working btw... was a dumb error, had my cover image called 'Cover.jpg. and the code said 'cover.jpg' which Calibre seemed to ignore but not my reader.

[benjaminsolah]

Also I noticed some things aren't wrapping properly and a sentence goes on past the page for a bit.

[benjaminsolah]

Ok, so Pages is shit. This is my scientific conclusion. I did the whole thing with Open Office and converted it. Which all looks great except for TOC and some images, but may edit that in Sigil once I work out how that works.

[theducks]

Things to remember:
CaSe sensitivity in file name (the wold is not all M$)
a missing colon or semi-colon or improper value, can cause that selector to be ignored completely.
The stylesheet, without knowing the selectors that apply to the problem, is mostly useless. I don't see something that screams "I am the overall Body style", that should have set the "base" for all those 'relative' sizes.


Glad you got it mostly working

[La Nuestra]

Originally Posted by theducks

If you are starting with ePub and just want to add a Cover or other images, Look at Sigil (next MR group down). (Be sure to try on a Copy.) If you need to convert, the Calibre might be your tool. Learning a new tool under a Need it Now, Gun is no fun.

Some of us are designers, not programmers... The Epub file format is becoming a standard, thousands of e-readers being sold and designers still having to do "Magic" like Mcgyver with three different apps and searching for CSS problems... in 2010?

Sigil and editing CSS is a pain: The workaround for creating a simple 300 pages Epub is not easy when the original text comes in .doc without styling, containing images and cells, but having to edit CSS in another software in a third step is far far far away from an optimized tool/system.

Hope Apple guys arrange their software soon (haven't said anything to my post in their support forum in a month's time), or hope Calibre becomes the final software for this, but it's not yet ready.

Ok, so we'll have to pay a programmer to try to solve the problem soon... If we solve it I'll let you know!

Thanks a lot mates.

[MrPLD]

Originally Posted by La Nuestra

The workaround for creating a simple 300 pages Epub is not easy when the original text comes in .doc without styling

Hopefully as time goes on people will realise that it will save them a lot of time if they step away from Word as their primary manuscript editor. It's a useful program for many things but it seems that so many people have having a hell of an unfortunate time generating eBooks from it, lots of fiddling.

We use LyX here. Export to HTML -> Import to Calibre -> Generate ePub/Mobi.

If the world is fortunate, Microsoft might bring out an eBook export facility to Office. Though I'm guessing even then that'll have to be tweaked a lot.

Sincerely, best of luck,
Paul.