Stand alone Android epub reader that handles formatting correctly? - Page 3

graatch · 11-17-2019, 02:35 PM

Moon+ Reader Pro respects CSS and you can also turn particular functions off, which is important. The options you can disable are: font styles (bold/italic/underline), sizes, colors, alignment, justify, indent, paragraph margin/padding, and others (table/border/float/etc). You can also add justification and indent and such in files that don't have them. I recently requested the developer add a disable line spacing option, which I think is a little harder to do from a development standpoint but he said he'd put in the wish list.

crane3 · 11-24-2019, 01:03 PM

I was getting ready to dump some printed books onto the dumpster & decided to see if I could look at the CSS of the epub version of a couple of pbooks that I have.

Both epub ebooks were by the same author & publisher; the 2nd book is one series after the 1st.

Using Calibre, I checked the original CSS style sheets by using the 'edit book' dropdown. The 1st book had a font size of 0.667em & the 2nd epub a 0.92em. Found via google that the 0.667em is about 7.5 point while 0.92em is about 11 point. The 7.5 is unreadable for me & the 11 point is not that great for extended reading.

Both pbooks were hard to read for my eyesight as it does look like the 7 or 7.5 point would be correct. On a tablet, I have set Moon Reader Pro font to either 20 or 22 or 23, depending on which tablet I use; don't think those font sizes are the print point sizes. However, the 'default' MR font size is larger than the 'publisher's' original CSS so that one can read the text, a very good point to not "honor the publisher's CSS".

Do not know if other epub original publisher's CSS are similar or more similar to the printed book CSS(?). Haven't checked any other part of the original CSS as I think it also may be need some changes for my eyesight.

Do wonder what other similarities are the original publisher's CSS to the printed copies of the same book. It does look like that the person(s) or software package just used the test of a printed copy as the epub "publisher's" CSS.

So do "honoring" the publisher's CSS mean the original publisher's CSS or the modified CSS in the epub that one made?

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
ePub Reader For Android	ivanbayross	General Discussions	2	10-26-2012 12:48 AM
.epub works in FF epub reader but not on Android device	calmansi	Sigil	5	03-02-2012 01:53 AM
Nook won't display formatting correctly. Everything else will.	uieluck	Nook Developer's Corner	3	10-14-2011 05:57 PM
Epub reading/management solution that handles Series	RoninTech	Apple Devices	3	10-24-2010 10:16 PM

11-17-2019, 02:35 PM	#31
graatch Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2018 Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, iPad 2 (Bluefire Reader); fire hd 10, Windows	Moon+ Reader Pro respects CSS and you can also turn particular functions off, which is important. The options you can disable are: font styles (bold/italic/underline), sizes, colors, alignment, justify, indent, paragraph margin/padding, and others (table/border/float/etc). You can also add justification and indent and such in files that don't have them. I recently requested the developer add a disable line spacing option, which I think is a little harder to do from a development standpoint but he said he'd put in the wish list.

11-24-2019, 01:03 PM	#32
crane3 Guru Posts: 608 Karma: 5007204 Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Calif Device: Fire hdx 8.9, Tab S2, Tab S5e, Aura ONE	I was getting ready to dump some printed books onto the dumpster & decided to see if I could look at the CSS of the epub version of a couple of pbooks that I have. Both epub ebooks were by the same author & publisher; the 2nd book is one series after the 1st. Using Calibre, I checked the original CSS style sheets by using the 'edit book' dropdown. The 1st book had a font size of 0.667em & the 2nd epub a 0.92em. Found via google that the 0.667em is about 7.5 point while 0.92em is about 11 point. The 7.5 is unreadable for me & the 11 point is not that great for extended reading. Both pbooks were hard to read for my eyesight as it does look like the 7 or 7.5 point would be correct. On a tablet, I have set Moon Reader Pro font to either 20 or 22 or 23, depending on which tablet I use; don't think those font sizes are the print point sizes. However, the 'default' MR font size is larger than the 'publisher's' original CSS so that one can read the text, a very good point to not "honor the publisher's CSS". Do not know if other epub original publisher's CSS are similar or more similar to the printed book CSS(?). Haven't checked any other part of the original CSS as I think it also may be need some changes for my eyesight. Do wonder what other similarities are the original publisher's CSS to the printed copies of the same book. It does look like that the person(s) or software package just used the test of a printed copy as the epub "publisher's" CSS. So do "honoring" the publisher's CSS mean the original publisher's CSS or the modified CSS in the epub that one made?

Advert