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Old 01-22-2024, 03:01 AM   #1
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Exclamation The same font size appears differently in the viewer and editor's preview.
1. I set font size to 20px in the viewer:
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2. I set font size to 20px in the editor's preview (default font size):
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3. They are clearly different from each other:
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Old 01-22-2024, 03:36 AM   #2
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preview settings only apply if the book defines no styles of its own.
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Old 01-22-2024, 08:37 PM   #3
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preview settings only apply if the book defines no styles of its own.
But by changing the preview font size settings, the actual font size surely becomes larger or smaller. I don't know CSS, but at least with same font size settings, they should have same font size.
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I make a comparison using Calibre viewer, editor's preview and Sigil's preview. The font size is set to 20. The actual font size for Calibre editor's preview and Sigil is the same. Calibre viewer's actual font size is smaller compared to these two.
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But by changing the preview font size settings, the actual font size surely becomes larger or smaller. I don't know CSS, but at least with same font size settings, they should have same font size.
Have you looked at the CSS of the ebook to see how the font-size is arrived at? Also note preview in the editor only uses that font size when the ebook CSS/inline styles do not define a font size.
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The viewer imposes the users font size preferences, scaling all fonts according to those preferences. The preview does not. You will not in general get the same font size between the two.
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Have you looked at the CSS of the ebook to see how the font-size is arrived at? Also note preview in the editor only uses that font size when the ebook CSS/inline styles do not define a font size.
I extract the .epub and open the chapter using my browser. I inspect the yellow highlighting part:

So I think this part of CSS is controlling the font-size:
code {
font-family: Courier, Courier New, monospace;
font-size: small;
}

So if I set "default font size" to 20 in the Calibre editor preview's settings, the font size of the "code" part will be smaller than 20?

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"Also note preview in the editor only uses that font size when the ebook CSS/inline styles do not define a font size."

I don't quite understand. Does the above "code" CSS qualified as "ebook CSS/inline styles define a font size"?

P.S. I uploaded the CSS and HTML to ch06.zip.
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The viewer imposes the users font size preferences, scaling all fonts according to those preferences. The preview does not. You will not in general get the same font size between the two.
When you say "the users font size preferences", are you referring to the settings below?
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I am confused, why this font size setting uses absolute unit "px", while you are saying that "scaling all fonts" which implies that this is a relative unit?
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Because there can be more than one font size ina document. That setting sets the base font size, all other font sizes are scaled relatively to it.
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