Ebook Viewer formatting questions

danwdoo · 03-19-2009, 10:41 AM

Hello,
I have some questions about the behavior I am seeing in Calibre's ebook viewer. It seems that no matter how I adjust the window size I end up with sentences at the top or bottom being half cut off every few pages in an ebook. One of the things I like about the MS Reader is it always seems to keep a well formatted "page". This is one of those things that seems to help me immerse myself into a book and forget about the medium.

I don't have an ebook hardware device yet so for now I'm s tuck reading on my PC. Because of this I have been downloading in the lit format instead of epub for now though I like the openness of epub. Is there some adjustment that I can make to have the reader be more "page centric" (display wise, not rigid actual page like a PDF though) even with flow and all? It would also be nice if there was a way to set the mouse scroll wheel to be a "page down" instead of scrolling individual lines of text as well

Still, Calibre is one great program!

Thanks!
Danny

kovidgoyal · 03-19-2009, 12:55 PM

calibre's viewer uses an HTML rendering engine, so this behavior comes from that. You'll notice the same thing with your browser. Still I agree that having that half line at the bottom or top can be annoying, so looking into solutions for that is on my TODO list.

danwdoo · 03-19-2009, 09:06 PM

Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for looking into this and the great program!

Danny

03-19-2009, 10:41 AM	#1
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	Ebook Viewer formatting questions Hello, I have some questions about the behavior I am seeing in Calibre's ebook viewer. It seems that no matter how I adjust the window size I end up with sentences at the top or bottom being half cut off every few pages in an ebook. One of the things I like about the MS Reader is it always seems to keep a well formatted "page". This is one of those things that seems to help me immerse myself into a book and forget about the medium. I don't have an ebook hardware device yet so for now I'm s tuck reading on my PC. Because of this I have been downloading in the lit format instead of epub for now though I like the openness of epub. Is there some adjustment that I can make to have the reader be more "page centric" (display wise, not rigid actual page like a PDF though) even with flow and all? It would also be nice if there was a way to set the mouse scroll wheel to be a "page down" instead of scrolling individual lines of text as well Still, Calibre is one great program! Thanks! Danny Last edited by danwdoo; 03-19-2009 at 10:45 AM.

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03-19-2009, 12:55 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre's viewer uses an HTML rendering engine, so this behavior comes from that. You'll notice the same thing with your browser. Still I agree that having that half line at the bottom or top can be annoying, so looking into solutions for that is on my TODO list.

03-19-2009, 09:06 PM	#3
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for looking into this and the great program! Danny

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