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Old 05-14-2010, 09:26 AM   #46
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Deleting the stylesheet is like recommending a lobotomy as a cure for a headache; you'll also be removing most of the other formatting from the file!

Edit the stylesheet (it's just a text file) and remove the specific line that's causing the problem; don't delete the whole thing.
I converted and loaded four books using Calibre and I was not able to change the font size on any of them. With hundreds of ebooks in various formats, I will not be editing the css files. I will delete the file as I load them to the Kobo until the firmware fix is in. It would be too time consuming to do it any other way.
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@ninja:
take a look at this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83209

Someone created a tool that you can use to (temporarily) fix your ePubs for the Kobo. It parses the CSS and removes the font-size: lines causing problems (or you can set it to delete the css entirely).

The author released a bulk processing version, so in the very least, it should save you some time in manually deleting the CSS. I'd suggest you try it out without deleting the CSS entirely first, since you can preserve much of the formatting this way while still having font-scaling.
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Old 05-14-2010, 10:37 AM   #48
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Thanks ficbot.

If they knew about this before the release why didn't they say so.
I've already said elsewhere I ain't happy because I bought this specifically because of the pdf readability.
NO! removing the stylesheet does NADA.
The stylesheet fix has nothing to do with PDFs. It's a fix for resizing fonts in EPUB format books.
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Old 05-15-2010, 11:59 AM   #49
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I'm having the font resizing problem with a book downloaded (purchased) from KoboBooks (Brown's the Lost Symbol) and loaded on my Kobo with ADE. Someone in another thread said a sync will fix it but it didn't. I assume the book is encrypted so will the programme (link above) to edit the .css file work or is their some other way of correcting this problem?
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Since the file is wrapped in DRM, and thus encrypted like you said, you have 2 options.

1. You can just delete the stylesheet entirely, since you can't edit the encrypted form. This will most likely fix your font scaling issue, but you'll loose other formatting as well.

2. Strip the DRM from the file, then you can edit the stylesheet to remove only the offending 'font-size:' lines.
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Old 05-21-2010, 09:39 AM   #51
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@ninja:
take a look at this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83209

Someone created a tool that you can use to (temporarily) fix your ePubs for the Kobo. It parses the CSS and removes the font-size: lines causing problems (or you can set it to delete the css entirely).
Thanks Stinger. I had seen the thread but, also forgot about it.
Some have also suggested that there is an option when converting the books in Calibre and have reported some success. Most of the books that I currently have electronically are in formats other than ePub. Deleting the css file doesnt' change my original. Worst comes to worst, I'll re-convert them once Kobo has a fix - I haven't noticed any real glitches caused by deleting the css file. So far, I've read about four books on it and still love it.
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Old 06-06-2010, 09:14 AM   #52
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Deleting the stylesheet is like recommending a lobotomy as a cure for a headache; you'll also be removing most of the other formatting from the file!

Edit the stylesheet (it's just a text file) and remove the specific line that's causing the problem; don't delete the whole thing.
I have tried the "delete css" fix on several books from the library. All formatting seems to be intact. Font sizes, bold, italics, indents...everything
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Old 06-06-2010, 11:19 AM   #53
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I have tried the "delete css" fix on several books from the library. All formatting seems to be intact. Font sizes, bold, italics, indents...everything
Yep. I have deleted the css for every book on my Kobo, including newspapers and magazines, and the formatting is perfect. I have not seen a single problem with doing this and I have around 100 items on my Kobo.
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Old 06-07-2010, 11:29 AM   #54
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@ninja:
take a look at this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83209

Someone created a tool that you can use to (temporarily) fix your ePubs for the Kobo. It parses the CSS and removes the font-size: lines causing problems (or you can set it to delete the css entirely).

Break my heart, it's a Windows program.

I'm middle-of-the-road in computer-savviness, so when I get home from work tonight I'm going to attempt the css fix (likely with limited success, as I have to FIND the css file first). I was devastated last night to find that my first KoboBook (straight from the Kobo site) is stuck at a completely unreadable font size.

Would my method of uploading the ebook to my Kobo have anything to do with the font size issues? Someone said when they synced it with the Kobo platform, the issue was fixed... I think I used ADE to upload it. I'll try syncing it with the Kobo platform as well.

So, detailed updates on a noob attempting to fix this issue to come, just in case there are any other questionably tech-savvy Kobo owners struggling with the same issue, and I manage through much trial and error to pull this off. ^^ (You're all very helpful, but "Just delete the CSS file" optimistically assumes that one would know where to FIND the css file. It'll take some searching to even figure out where my ebooks are stored on my mac. Tragic, right?)
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Jelbee - an ePub is simply a zipped archive. Using a free tool such as 7zip you can open the ePub (or explode it) and see a file ending with .css. That is the file you need to edit or delete. If you delete you lose all formatting. If you decide to edit the css file, just look for any reference to font size and delete it. Any basic text editor can edit the css file. Once your css file is edited or removed, rezip the files making sure that the file extension is .epub. You will probably need to change the extension after you rezip the files.
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Jelbee - an ePub is simply a zipped archive. Using a free tool such as 7zip you can open the ePub (or explode it) and see a file ending with .css. That is the file you need to edit or delete. If you delete you lose all formatting. If you decide to edit the css file, just look for any reference to font size and delete it. Any basic text editor can edit the css file. Once your css file is edited or removed, rezip the files making sure that the file extension is .epub. You will probably need to change the extension after you rezip the files.
YOu may not even have to explode it. 7zip and windows itself can view a zip file contents and even manipulate it without actually have to explode it. You can simply rename or erase the file while viewing the contents.
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Old 06-07-2010, 10:35 PM   #57
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As I suspected, woefully unable to make it work.

What am I missing here?

Changed the .epub file to a .zip file. Exploded it. Tried editting the style sheet and removing the lines that specified font point size, AND tried deleting the CSS file entirely.... re-zipping it, changing it back to an .epub.... both ways resulted in issues through Caliber. When I upload the edited .epub to my Kobo, it doesn't appear in my library, and if I try to "convert" it to change options, it says there was an "error."

Epic fail on the noob front. God, I'm aggravated. Anyone see a blindingly obvious step that I'm missing?


On the plus side, on a couple of the books, converting them and "disabling font scaling" worked to fix the font size issue. Strangely tho, it only worked on SOME, and not others, when I got the books from the same place.
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Scratch that. I had downloaded that 7zip program as suggested above for Mac, and that was apparently the problem.

When I used the program suggested for mac users in the "Tips" thread ("MAC users: Download a program called ePub Zip"), the exact same process worked great.

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Scratch that. I had downloaded that 7zip program as suggested above for Mac, and that was apparently the problem.

When I used the program suggested for mac users in the "Tips" thread ("MAC users: Download a program called ePub Zip"), the exact same process worked great.

Cheers!
I use 7zip under windows and I don't explode or rename anything. I right click on the ePub and select "open" in the 7zip context menu. From there I can delete the .css file and close 7zip. Works perfectly.
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Scratch that. I had downloaded that 7zip program as suggested above for Mac, and that was apparently the problem.
When you were re-compressing the epub, did you explicitly specify the .ZIP compression? by default, 7zip uses its own .7z format and compression methods. Renaming these .7z files to epub could be the source of your woes.
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