text contrast

dhylton · 04-02-2009, 04:26 PM

at least one of my (purchased) ebooks (epub format) shows grey text. the page contains pointers to footnotes which are solid black, and the text is quite obviously lighter than the battery/information bar at the bottom of the screen. the text is much harder to read than with other purchased epub-formatted books. so far this is my only complaint with the reader, and it does appear to be an issue with the book and not the reader.

i have been unable to find a way to make the text black instead of grey; where do i go from here?

MickeyC · 04-03-2009, 04:27 PM

Hi dhylton and welcome to MobileRead. No clue on te text question but, if there is an answer, you'll get it here.

GraceKrispy · 04-03-2009, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhylton

i have been unable to find a way to make the text black instead of grey; where do i go from here?

There are a few books I have found that the contrast is super light and it bugs me. Luckily, I can still read it, but I also wish there was a way to darken the text on certain pdf.

Welcome, hope someone can answer this for you!

gwynevans · 04-03-2009, 05:51 PM

First thing to try might be to see if you can unzip the epub and see if you can make any sense of the contents. I'm wondering if you can get at the CSS & see if there's something there... Slim chance, I'd have thought, if it's DRMmed, though...

dhylton · 04-07-2009, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gwynevans

First thing to try might be to see if you can unzip the epub and see if you can make any sense of the contents. I'm wondering if you can get at the CSS & see if there's something there... Slim chance, I'd have thought, if it's DRMmed, though...

awesome, your suggestion was right on the money! in the css, *everything* was set to maroon. the text in the *real* book is black, so i have no idea what they were thinking.

anyway, i unzipped, changed to maroon to black, re-zipped, transferred to the reader, and the result is very much easier to read.

thanks so much! (i had no idea an epub was basically a zip archive of a website ...)

the source of my particular ebooks sells drm-free products, so that wasn't an issue in this particular case.

http://www.symtio.com/symtio/control/FAQ#general05

dhylton · 04-08-2009, 11:23 AM

after passing this along to the publisher, the ebook in question has been fixed and re-distributed. apparently the big companies still listen to the little folks once in awhile.

DixieGal · 04-08-2009, 11:30 AM

Thanks, this is good information!

gwynevans · 04-08-2009, 12:41 PM

Good to hear - The day after I posted that, Azardi announced V2 of their ePub reader, which added unpack, edit & re-pack capability, making this even easier to do!

04-02-2009, 04:26 PM	#1
dhylton Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: PRS-505	text contrast at least one of my (purchased) ebooks (epub format) shows grey text. the page contains pointers to footnotes which are solid black, and the text is quite obviously lighter than the battery/information bar at the bottom of the screen. the text is much harder to read than with other purchased epub-formatted books. so far this is my only complaint with the reader, and it does appear to be an issue with the book and not the reader. i have been unable to find a way to make the text black instead of grey; where do i go from here?

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04-03-2009, 04:27 PM	#2
MickeyC Grand Sorcerer Posts: 16,732 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3	Hi dhylton and welcome to MobileRead. No clue on te text question but, if there is an answer, you'll get it here.

04-03-2009, 05:51 PM	#4
gwynevans Wizzard Posts: 1,402 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: iPad 2, iPhone 6s, Kindle Voyage & Kindle PaperWhite	First thing to try might be to see if you can unzip the epub and see if you can make any sense of the contents. I'm wondering if you can get at the CSS & see if there's something there... Slim chance, I'd have thought, if it's DRMmed, though...

04-08-2009, 11:23 AM	#6
dhylton Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: PRS-505	after passing this along to the publisher, the ebook in question has been fixed and re-distributed. apparently the big companies still listen to the little folks once in awhile.

04-08-2009, 11:30 AM	#7
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Thanks, this is good information!

04-08-2009, 12:41 PM	#8
gwynevans Wizzard Posts: 1,402 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: iPad 2, iPhone 6s, Kindle Voyage & Kindle PaperWhite	Good to hear - The day after I posted that, Azardi announced V2 of their ePub reader, which added unpack, edit & re-pack capability, making this even easier to do!

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