Calibre 4 a step back - Page 3

DiapDealer · 10-16-2019, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

is there any way to modify Sigil so it converts % to vh when it sends the code to be rendered? vh does not work with ADE 2.0.1 and whatever version Kobo uses. And if people put in vh to get it to render correctly with Sigil, it may not render correctly for whatever software if they forget to put it back to % before being done.

Relax there, Sparky. We're way ahead of you. Hence my pleasure at discovering this thread.

JSWolf · 10-16-2019, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Brett Merkey

@JSWolf:

Wow, thanks for that but seems like lots of layers there. I had originally tried media queries in Calibre to save the one step of going back into a converted AZW with Calibre to edit the CSS to put large, negative margins on the HTML root tag.

When I put in negative margins, I put in -45px for a 300DPI Kindle. I also use the Hyphenate This! plugin to put in soft hyphens as they work very well on KF8. And I use ChareInk as the font for a Kindle that supports fonts as I've modified it so the line height for KF8 is a lot smaller. So it makes the text look better. The only thing I don't get is kerning because KF8 doesn't support it. But ChareInk would work for KFX as it has kerning and a better line height and you get more text on a page then you do with Bookerly and I think it look better.

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ALL, each and every book I read on the Kindle or tablet, I extensively recode via Calibre in order to improve the typography and add visual interest, as well as insert proper conventions such as blockquote. The Paperwhite wastes lots of space at the margins, so I want to add negative margins for the PW without destroying the look of the ePub or the Calibre viewer.

I too fix up the ePub. Some require more work then others. Sometimes the CSS can be a real mess. I put in my out body and p. I remove unused CSS in the HTML and CSS. I delete any rubbish such as the HTML ToC. I remove things like advertising for other books, any previews, any reviews, any copyright notices not part of the copyright page, and any other rubbish I don't need. I also reduce the size of the cover and title page to 1600 lines is they are larger. I also losslessly recompress using a value of 80 to save size. I don't notice the difference. Because I put in my own p, any classes are .class or p.class, and it has a center, I put in a text indent of 0. And I reduce the silly chapter headers to something that takes a lot less space. Yes this all sounds like a lot of work, but really, it's not that hard to do.

JSWolf · 10-16-2019, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Relax there, Sparky. We're way ahead of you. Hence my pleasure at discovering this thread.

Thanks. That will solve two problems at once.

Brett Merkey · 10-16-2019, 06:19 PM

@JSWolf:
Sounds like we pretty much go down the same list. It always gives me special pleasure to blow away that embedded Contents page. Usually allows getting rid of a nice swath of the CSS file too. For history books, I also get rid of the Index since readers have full text search and I also find images/maps to add. Coding for the Paperwhite and the Kindle Android app also allows the cheap (in labor!) theatrics provided by the pseudos ::first-line / ::first-letter.

Calibre was certainly not designed as an editor but, with its tools and plug-ins, added with a curated store of regexes, it can "do up" a book very quickly.

I will look up that font you mentioned.

KevinH · 10-17-2019, 08:04 PM

A few questions.

Is it safe to assume every svg tag with both width and height attributes of "100%" and with an image tag child should be converted to "100vh" and "100vw".

Or should it be further restricted to when there is only 1 svg tag and it is the only child of the body tag or maybe the first grandchild of the body assuming a single div is being used like we do when adding Covers in Sigil.

Since the cover will fill the screen, having no other elements in the body make sense as a selection criteria.

Are there any other cases when this type of swap makes sense?

Thanks,

KevinH

ps why are we talking about this in the Calibre forum. I only found it by accident. Perhaps we should move these posts to Sigil. Can any moderator cross forums like that?

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

is there any way to modify Sigil so it converts % to vh when it sends the code to be rendered? vh does not work with ADE 2.0.1 and whatever version Kobo uses. And if people put in vh to get it to render correctly with Sigil, it may not render correctly for whatever software if they forget to put it back to % before being done.

BetterRed · 10-17-2019, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

ps why are we talking about this in the Calibre forum. I only found it by accident. Perhaps we should move these posts to Sigil. Can any moderator cross forums like that?

Yes, in this case it might be best of DiapDealer did it as he would know best which posts are Sigil specific. Most of the thread seem to be about calibre.

BR

kovidgoyal · 10-17-2019, 08:57 PM

See fs_images.pyj in the calibre source code for the logic I use to detect when to convert 100% too 100vh

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

A few questions.

Is it safe to assume every svg tag with both width and height attributes of "100%" and with an image tag child should be converted to "100vh" and "100vw".

Or should it be further restricted to when there is only 1 svg tag and it is the only child of the body tag or maybe the first grandchild of the body assuming a single div is being used like we do when adding Covers in Sigil.

Since the cover will fill the screen, having no other elements in the body make sense as a selection criteria.

Are there any other cases when this type of swap makes sense?

Thanks,

KevinH

ps why are we talking about this in the Calibre forum. I only found it by accident. Perhaps we should move these posts to Sigil. Can any moderator cross forums like that?

KevinH · 10-17-2019, 10:09 PM

Will do.

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

See fs_images.pyj in the calibre source code for the logic I use to detect when to convert 100% too 100vh

JSWolf · 10-18-2019, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brett Merkey

@JSWolf:
Sounds like we pretty much go down the same list. It always gives me special pleasure to blow away that embedded Contents page. Usually allows getting rid of a nice swath of the CSS file too. For history books, I also get rid of the Index since readers have full text search and I also find images/maps to add. Coding for the Paperwhite and the Kindle Android app also allows the cheap (in labor!) theatrics provided by the pseudos ::first-line / ::first-letter.

Calibre was certainly not designed as an editor but, with its tools and plug-ins, added with a curated store of regexes, it can "do up" a book very quickly.

I will look up that font you mentioned.

You can find ChareInk at the following link.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056

JSWolf · 10-18-2019, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

See fs_images.pyj in the calibre source code for the logic I use to detect when to convert 100% too 100vh

Can this code be modified to work with the following CSS?

Code:

img {
  max-height: 100%;
  max-width: 100%;
}

KevinH · 10-18-2019, 09:24 AM

svg uses the image tag not the img tag doesn't it. Have you tried your css for "image" instead of "img" otherwise there us no rule that applies.

KevinH · 10-20-2019, 01:03 PM

@Kovid,

Okay I took a shot at doing this in gumbo directly just before the Preview is loaded. Seems to work but the code is a bit messy.

One question:

I think I followed your general logic although I am not sure after checking for a single div child of body why you would ever see ("svg", "image") and not always ("div", "svg", "image") when building the path from the body. I built my path backwards from the image tag itself back to the body tag but I think it amounts to the same thing.

Am I missing something?

https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil...2e178bb226bc5f

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

See fs_images.pyj in the calibre source code for the logic I use to detect when to convert 100% too 100vh

kovidgoyal · 10-20-2019, 01:09 PM

That was a bug I fixed earlier today, look at the updated code.

KevinH · 10-20-2019, 02:10 PM

Okay, I just fixed my version of well. Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That was a bug I fixed earlier today, look at the updated code.

deback · 10-20-2019, 02:59 PM

img {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}

The above code works fine for me for full-sized images. I never use the max-height or max-width, since just height and width work fine--and still work fine in v4.2. I never use 100vh, either.

Just make sure the margins for the body class on the image page are set to be small. I use 10pt for the side margins. This results in the image being centered when viewing the epub, as follows:

.calibre-cover {
display: block;
font-size: 1em;
padding-left: 0;
padding-right: 0;
text-align: center;
line-height: 1.2;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 10pt;
margin-right: 10pt;
margin-top: 0;
}

10-16-2019, 06:19 PM	#34
Brett Merkey Not Quite Dead Posts: 194 Karma: 654170 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: Paperwhite 4; Galaxy Tab	@JSWolf: Sounds like we pretty much go down the same list. It always gives me special pleasure to blow away that embedded Contents page. Usually allows getting rid of a nice swath of the CSS file too. For history books, I also get rid of the Index since readers have full text search and I also find images/maps to add. Coding for the Paperwhite and the Kindle Android app also allows the cheap (in labor!) theatrics provided by the pseudos ::first-line / ::first-letter. Calibre was certainly not designed as an editor but, with its tools and plug-ins, added with a curated store of regexes, it can "do up" a book very quickly. I will look up that font you mentioned. Last edited by Brett Merkey; 10-16-2019 at 06:23 PM.

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10-18-2019, 09:24 AM	#41
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,659 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	svg uses the image tag not the img tag doesn't it. Have you tried your css for "image" instead of "img" otherwise there us no rule that applies.

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,871 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That was a bug I fixed earlier today, look at the updated code.

10-20-2019, 02:59 PM	#45
deback Book E d i t o r Posts: 432 Karma: 288184 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Laptop	img { height: 100%; width: 100%; } The above code works fine for me for full-sized images. I never use the max-height or max-width, since just height and width work fine--and still work fine in v4.2. I never use 100vh, either. Just make sure the margins for the body class on the image page are set to be small. I use 10pt for the side margins. This results in the image being centered when viewing the epub, as follows: .calibre-cover { display: block; font-size: 1em; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 10pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0; }

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