Removing the Footer with Page numbers and book title?

[ShellShock]

Originally Posted by murg

If you sideload the book as an epub (after suitable conversion) the footer is not displayed.

On the Glo (and I believe the Touch), for sideloaded books it is the header that is not displayed, but the footer with the page number is still displayed, and there is no way to get rid of it. I agree, on a small 6" screen I think there should be option to switch both header and footer off for kepubs and side-loaded.

Plus which I've discovered that the Kobo ignores line-height styles in epubs. For me the lines are too high, even with the minimum line spacing setting in the Glo's font options. Setting the line-height in the epub css (e.g., to 0.8em) makes no difference...naughty Kobo!

[ewphoenix123]

Editing the line-height works fine, and the Kobo recognises it.
The problem is that if you use calibre to change the line-height it doesn't always change the lineheigt of the right fontclass.

So a lot of badly formated books you have to edit manually in Sigil.
Check which fontclass is used for the actual book text, and add or change the line-heigt for exactly this fontclass in the css.

[ShellShock]

Regarding the line-height I think the following is happening: my epubs have a line-height set only in the body class. On my Sony PRS-650 this line-height would be cascaded down properly to individual paragraphs, but on the Glo it is not, but is overriden by the line spacing option in the Glo's font options. For some reason the line spacing minimum value seems to be greater than 1.0em, more like 1.5em, so that is a problem - the minimum values needs to go lower.

But you are right, you can get the line-height you want by explicitly setting it in the paragraph class/style, which then overrides the line spacing in the Glo's font options, which is what I shall do in future. But still, the Glo's line spacing needs to allow smaller values.

In fact, I think there should be an option to turn off the Glo's styling, ideally individually, so it will only use the styles in the epub itself. Perhaps the only one I would use then would be font size, but I normally prefer to set that in the epub itself.

[scoobertron]

Originally Posted by Stuart_L

I would tend to sympathize with Omro's mother, I don't really care about the page number and title. A little more real estate for the book itself certainly wouldn't hurt. I could do without the page numbers on the right side too, as I plan on reading it from cover to cover, and the Kobo keeps good enough track of my present location in the book. If these things could be shut off, I would do so. They don't bother me very much either ....

If you mean the page numbers on the right of the text on epub files, these can be turned off on p2 of the reading settings menu iirc

[Tacty]

Originally Posted by murg

If you sideload the book as an epub (after suitable conversion) the footer is not displayed.

i sideloaded some books but footer is still there...what conversion i have to do?

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by ShellShock

Plus which I've discovered that the Kobo ignores line-height styles in epubs. For me the lines are too high, even with the minimum line spacing setting in the Glo's font options. Setting the line-height in the epub css (e.g., to 0.8em) makes no difference...naughty Kobo!

I have found some fonts seem to carry their own line height information with them. Converting with the font box ticked under look and feel>filter style information often fixes this.

Fixed font sizes in the stylesheet like font-size: 0.77419em; seem to cause a problem and are seldom actually useful as far as I can tell. Deleting them using tweak epub often gets rid of the extra line spacing and results in more text on the page.

Helen

[ShellShock]

Originally Posted by Tacty

i sideloaded some books but footer is still there...what conversion i have to do?

It is not possible to remove the footer, even for side loaded books, but at least you do not get a header...for kepubs you have to put up with a header and a footer.

[RG1]

Originally Posted by ShellShock

Regarding the line-height I think the following is happening: my epubs have a line-height set only in the body class. On my Sony PRS-650 this line-height would be cascaded down properly to individual paragraphs, but on the Glo it is not, but is overriden by the line spacing option in the Glo's font options. For some reason the line spacing minimum value seems to be greater than 1.0em, more line 1.5em, so that is a problem - the minimum values needs to go lower.

Kobos line height seems not to be related to font size like on other readers. Looks like kobo uses an absolute line height and this causes problems if small or big font sizes are used. If font size is smaller than 1em you get to much line spacing. If font size is bigger than 1.5em you get almost no line spacing. If font size is bigger than 2em lines go into each other.

[Rojofo]

But if you are reading a PDF which you cannot convert to EPUB because the PDF has a complex page layout (diagrams etc.) you are at present stuck with the waste space at the bottom PLUS waste space at both sides since the ratio on a PDF page is fixed.

I described this on another post, referring to this discussion there:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=196312

I can't believe that this is so hard to make optional.

Rojofo.

[murg]

Originally Posted by Tacty

i sideloaded some books but footer is still there...what conversion i have to do?

Oops, as ShellShock pointed out, it's the header that isn't displayed on sideloaded books, not the footer.

I don't know of any way to get rid of the footer.