02-13-2011, 07:41 AM | #1 |
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Pixelated font in e-book reader when opening EPUB format
A few updates ago, I noticed that the E-book reader all of a sudden started displaying pixelated fonts for news articles. Now I noticed, that also EPUB books are displayed very pixelated. Since I only have one book in EPUB format, I only noticed now.
When I first installed Calibre, I compared the look of the E-book reader with Adobe Digital Editions, and there was almost no difference, but that has changed drastically. I attached the display of the same book in E-book reader and Digital Editions. This has absolutely nothing to do with my systems settings, as they have not changed. Is it possible to get the old look in E-book viewer back via changing the settings, or is this a bug? Hope this helps. All best, M |
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Considering there are 100s of thousands of folks using calibre It would seem it is something unique to your system. My guess is another program you installed around a month back caused this interference. If I had this error I would re-image my machine. Maybe someone else has an idea. Good Luck. |
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02-13-2011, 08:06 AM | #3 |
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Thanks for your answer.
Yes, I posted this problem before as I thought it only pertained to news, and then concluded that the issue lay with the newsfeeds. I am using XP with SP 2. I have not installed anything new other than Calibre updates. This is very odd, especially as nobody else is experiencing it. All my other readers, FB Reader, Digital Editions, Stanza, etc. display EPUBs with no problems whatsoever. |
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@wallcraft - Good Catch.
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02-13-2011, 09:19 PM | #7 |
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Thank you for the suggestions. I did go through the cleartype tuning process, albeit to no avail.
I do not want to stress this issue too much, but I believe something must have changed in the E-book viewer as to how it handles font display a few versions back. This is not a problem or criticism, I only wanted to point out that it may not agree with certain systems. I will update to SP3 at some point, but am apprehensive to risk current functionality in my netbook which is excellent. E-book viewer worked so great up to recently! |
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