Stop Calibre from adding page margins?

[Jane12]

Hi! Calibre is great! Many thanks to the developers!

I was wondering, is there a way to prevent Calibre from generating and adding page margins to epubs?

From what I can tell, Calibre automatically takes settings from Prefs > Page Setup > Margins and adds them to each epub thus:

• margin-left/right get added to .calibre in stylesheet.css
• margin-top/bottom get added with an @page command either at the top of each html file or in the new page_styles.css generated in v0.8.51 (thanks for moving this to an external stylesheet!)

What I would like is for these margin commands not to be added at all.

I've tried deleting the entries in Prefs > Page Setup > Margins, but that doesn't work, the settings can't be empty/blank. Entering zero doesn't help, as that just sets the margins to zero.

If it matters, I'm using "Default Output Profile."

Any suggestions? Thx!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Jane12

Hi! Calibre is great! Many thanks to the developers!

I was wondering, is there a way to prevent Calibre from generating and adding page margins to epubs?

From what I can tell, Calibre automatically takes settings from Prefs > Page Setup > Margins and adds them to each epub thus:

• margin-left/right get added to .calibre in stylesheet.css
• margin-top/bottom get added with an @page command either at the top of each html file or in the new page_styles.css generated in v0.8.51 (thanks for moving this to an external stylesheet!)

What I would like is for these margin commands not to be added at all.

I've tried deleting the entries in Prefs > Page Setup > Margins, but that doesn't work, the settings can't be empty/blank. Entering zero doesn't help, as that just sets the margins to zero.

If it matters, I'm using "Default Output Profile."

Any suggestions? Thx!

Set them to a very small number: 1px
Not all devices show the edge of the screen (the bezel overlaps) . A couple of pts gives most device users a chance
BTW once any profile has been used on a title, those settings will be stored unless you use the button (tick box in bulk mode) to release prior settings.

[Jane12]

Thanks for the suggestion, but setting the margins to 1px (or 1pt or 0) doesn't stop the margin commands from being added. It simply makes the margins very small. But the css is still added.

The only way I've figured out how to get what I want is to unzip the epub file, open the css stylesheet and manually delete the margin commands that Calibre has added, then re-zipping it.

I'm just wondering if there's a way to stop the margin commands from being added in the first place.

[kovidgoyal]

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c...revision/12167

[Jane12]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c...revision/12167

Whoah! Most of that page went over my head, but if I'm understanding it correctly, I'll find the option I'm looking for in the next Calibre release? If so, Kovid!

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by Jane12

Whoah! Most of that page went over my head, but if I'm understanding it correctly, I'll find the option I'm looking for in the next Calibre release? If so, Kovid!

Yes, you will, simply set the margin you dont want to a negative value.

[Jane12]

Excellent! Thanks so much!!!

[Jane12]

P.S. I'm curious as to why the @page margin-top/bottom commands were moved to a separate page_styles.css stylesheet instead of being added to the regular stylesheet.css. Is there an advantage to separating the commands and having two separate stylesheets instead of putting all the css in one sheet?

(Either way, I'm happy that the @page margin-top/bottom commands have been removed from the individual html files. Much easier to edit now! Thx!)

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes, you will, simply set the margin you dont want to a negative value.

It would be nice if it could be done away with entirely. This really screws up Cool Reader and I have no idea if @buggins will fix it or when.

Regards - John

[kovidgoyal]

Setting them to negative means there will be no margin declarations for @page and body in the epub produced by calibre.

[Jane12]

Just tried the latest update 0.8.52 and it's perfect -- does exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much, Kovid!!!

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P.S. If anyone's wondering about "negative margins" -- what happens is you go to Prefs > Page Setup > margins. The default is 5.0. As you tick the little arrow down, it will say: 5.0 > 4.0 > 3.0 > 2.0 > 0.0 > "no margin".

So the numbers don't actually become negative. Once you go below 0.0, it just says "no margin" -- and then, as Kovid says and Jabby requests, no margin declarations are added to the epub.