Bad text color,

[AxAx]

I have this bunch of mobi files, created from chm files using calibre for linux. Their texts(not headlines) don't look really black, I think they are colored and kindle represents that color with a greyish black. Is there anyway I can fix this? I cannot seem to find a contrast option

[Tiersten]

You'd probably have to edit the source for that as the Kindle is just displaying what it is being told to. I don't know of any setting anywhere which will let you individually alter portions of a book or the default display settings.

Can you convert the CHMs to something else that you can edit first?

[mrsquash]

I ran into a file like that several months ago. I used calibre to convert the mobi to epub, looked at the stylesheet.css file, and found that one (or more) of the styles had a line that ended in ":blue". I think there was something about "text" earlier in the line but it's been a while. I deleted all such lines from the css and converted back to mobi and the problem was fixed; all the "blue" text, which had been grey on the kindle, was then dark.

edit: It occurred to me that this would be a lot easier now with calibre's "inspect" feature for epubs. If you're not familiar with it, you just open the epub in calibre's viewer, put your cursor on one of the grey areas, right-click and choose inspect. A window on the right will show you the applicable style for that section and what its parameters are. Should eliminate the guess-work like I had to do back in the old days.

[kakkalla]

Thanks so much mrsquash for explaining how to use the 'inspect' feature. It had me stumped.

Just one question. When I right-click and then select Inspect in the viewer, the Web browser window opens but is is quite small. I have to drag the window out to enlarge it. This happens every time. Is there any way to ensure that the 'web inspector' panel always opens up to the previous size?

Thanks again.

[Barty]

Originally Posted by kakkalla

Thanks so much mrsquash for explaining how to use the 'inspect' feature. It had me stumped.

Just one question. When I right-click and then select Inspect in the viewer, the Web browser window opens but is is quite small. I have to drag the window out to enlarge it. This happens every time. Is there any way to ensure that the 'web inspector' panel always opens up to the previous size?

Thanks again.

Trying quitting the program; maybe it saves window sizes on exit.

Btw, calibre has a "tweak ePub" command (shortcut t) It unzips the file and opens the folder. Then you can edit stylesheet.CSS. In this case, just search for all lines with color: and change it to black or just delete the line. Then go back to calibre and use the rebuild ePub command.

[mrsquash]

Originally Posted by kakkalla

Is there any way to ensure that the 'web inspector' panel always opens up to the previous size?

I don't know of a way; I always just grab a corner and drag.

And I'll second Barty's recommendation of calibre's "tweak epub" feature. That's my usual workflow for making formatting fixes: inspect, tweak epub, and rebuild, then convert to mobi if needed.