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Old Yesterday, 09:51 AM   #1
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Uneven bottom margins in Epub to PDF conversion

Hi!

I realize Calibre was never meant to produce professional PDFs. However, once I found a workaround for the fact that KDP ignores the odd/even offset feature, I've found it to work beautifully.

There's only one problem. A significant number of the bottom page margins don't match the rest of the book. They're off by a line, so they don't look right next to the adjoining page.

Is there any workaround, or a potential fix?

Thanks in advance.
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Hi!

I realize Calibre was never meant to produce professional PDFs. However, once I found a workaround for the fact that KDP ignores the odd/even offset feature, I've found it to work beautifully.

There's only one problem. A significant number of the bottom page margins don't match the rest of the book. They're off by a line, so they don't look right next to the adjoining page.

Is there any workaround, or a potential fix?

Thanks in advance.
In the ePub, you have to set widows and orphans both to 1 in the CSS.
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Thanks! It worked.

Of course now I have to decide between widows and orphans or even pages or find some sort of workaround.
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Thanks! It worked.

Of course now I have to decide between widows and orphans or even pages or find some sort of workaround.
The only workaround is to load the eBook into a word processor and edit each page so they end at the same place.
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The only workaround is to load the eBook into a word processor and edit each page so they end at the same place.
Works best anyway for professional PDFs.
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Works best anyway for professional PDFs.
No doubt, but my workflow is geared toward epubs. And I take a certain amount of pleasure from getting nice results from free software all the way down the production chain.

So far, all the genres I've published in have been ebook-dominated, though what I'm getting ready to release may have a higher likelihood of print sales.
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