Background color in Calibre 4 viewer

jbacelar · 10-07-2019, 11:42 AM

The new viewer does not respond to the bgcolor attribute in body, nor to the background-color property in CSS, with the value format required by Qt #RRGGBB.

kovidgoyal · 10-07-2019, 12:40 PM

Background colors for body and html are under control of the user, not the ebook creator. Look under the colors preference in the viewer preferences.

jbacelar · 10-07-2019, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Background colors for body and html are under control of the user, not the ebook creator. Look under the colors preference in the viewer preferences.

Very good, so now the design of some pages, including the covers, will be in the hands of the reader user and not in the creator of the ebook. Great!
I'm sorry but this viewer is not for me. I will continue with the previous one, that the only thing it does is show what is specified.

kovidgoyal · 10-07-2019, 12:57 PM

In the previous viewer, the user could easily specify a custom stylesheet to override the colors as well. The only new thing in this viewer is that they are overridden by default.

kovidgoyal · 10-07-2019, 01:00 PM

Oh and if you really want to ensure your background color is seen, simply wrap the contents of body in a div and set the background on that.

jbacelar · 10-07-2019, 01:13 PM

Thanks, I will check if it works.

gourav4ever · 10-07-2019, 01:20 PM

I use the print option every now and then in the calibre viewer for conversion, its more handy than the converter tool. In the newest calibre v4 the most used print option is missing, and i am really upset

. Want it back in the next update.

jbacelar · 10-07-2019, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Oh and if you really want to ensure your background color is seen, simply wrap the contents of body in a div and set the background on that.

It works. Thanks again.

Now it would be great if that ghost cover that nobody has called disappears.

DNSB · 10-07-2019, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by gourav4ever

I use the print option every now and then in the calibre viewer for conversion, its more handy than the converter tool. In the newest calibre v4 the most used print option is missing, and i am really upset

. Want it back in the next update.

To quote Bruce Springsteen more or less, "it's gone and it ain't coming back".

BetterRed · 10-07-2019, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

To quote Bruce Springsteen more or less, "it's gone and it ain't coming back".

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...1&postcount=13

kovidgoyal · 10-07-2019, 09:21 PM

Yeah I have nothing against bringing back print, its just not a priority since the way print works its basically doing a conversion under the hood anyway, so you dont really gain anything by printing from the viewer, except for perhaps a slightly simplified interface for conversion.

10-07-2019, 11:42 AM	#1
jbacelar Interested in the matter Posts: 421 Karma: 426094 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Spain, south coast Device: Pocketbook InkPad 3	Background color in Calibre 4 viewer The new viewer does not respond to the bgcolor attribute in body, nor to the background-color property in CSS, with the value format required by Qt #RRGGBB.

10-07-2019, 01:13 PM	#6
jbacelar Interested in the matter Posts: 421 Karma: 426094 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Spain, south coast Device: Pocketbook InkPad 3	Thanks, I will check if it works. Last edited by jbacelar; 10-07-2019 at 01:16 PM.

10-07-2019, 01:20 PM	#7
gourav4ever Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2019 Device: none	Missing print option in the new calibre viewer 4 I use the print option every now and then in the calibre viewer for conversion, its more handy than the converter tool. In the newest calibre v4 the most used print option is missing, and i am really upset. Want it back in the next update.

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10-07-2019, 12:40 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,219 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Background colors for body and html are under control of the user, not the ebook creator. Look under the colors preference in the viewer preferences.

10-07-2019, 12:57 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,219 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	In the previous viewer, the user could easily specify a custom stylesheet to override the colors as well. The only new thing in this viewer is that they are overridden by default.

10-07-2019, 01:00 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,219 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Oh and if you really want to ensure your background color is seen, simply wrap the contents of body in a div and set the background on that.

10-07-2019, 09:21 PM	#11
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,219 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Yeah I have nothing against bringing back print, its just not a priority since the way print works its basically doing a conversion under the hood anyway, so you dont really gain anything by printing from the viewer, except for perhaps a slightly simplified interface for conversion.

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