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Old 11-03-2011, 03:46 PM   #1
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help with sigil page bkgd.
I somehow have a page background that is showing up when I bring an e-pub from Sigil into Calibre so I can generate a mobi file. Any ideas? I don't see anything that refers to bkgd color in the css head, or the rest of the code. I admit I'm code-challenged, but please help!
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Old 11-03-2011, 06:56 PM   #2
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I somehow have a page background that is showing up when I bring an e-pub from Sigil into Calibre so I can generate a mobi file. Any ideas? I don't see anything that refers to bkgd color in the css head, or the rest of the code. I admit I'm code-challenged, but please help!
is there a xpgt file in the stylesheet section?
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:07 PM   #3
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I couldn't find that. Here is the code for the cover page:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/css" http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" />

<title>You're Hired</title>
<meta content="Lorne Epstein" name="Author" />
<meta content="Cocoa HTML Writer" name="Generator" />
<meta content="1038.36" name="CocoaVersion" />
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px}
p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Helvetica}
p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica}
p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px}
span.s1 {text-decoration: underline}
span.s2 {letter-spacing: -0.2px}
span.s3 {letter-spacing: -0.3px}
span.Apple-tab-span {white-spacere}

span.sgc-4 {font-weight: bold}
b.sgc-3 {font-style: italic}
p.sgc-2 {font-style: italic}
p.sgc-1 {font-weight: bold}

span.sgc-5 {font-weight: normal;}

body.sgc-6 {word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;}
/*]]>*/
</style>
</head>
<body class="sgc-6">
<p class="p1"><img alt="" src="../Images/63212_YoureHired_Cvr_front_sm.jpg" /><br /></p>

<p class="p2 sgc-1"><span class="sgc-5"><br /></span></p>
</body>
</html>
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:14 PM   #4
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I couldn't find an xpgt file that showed in the code. Here is the code for the cover page:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/css" http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" />

<title>You're Hired</title>
<meta content="Lorne Epstein" name="Author" />
<meta content="Cocoa HTML Writer" name="Generator" />
<meta content="1038.36" name="CocoaVersion" />
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px}
p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Helvetica}
p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica}
p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px}
span.s1 {text-decoration: underline}
span.s2 {letter-spacing: -0.2px}
span.s3 {letter-spacing: -0.3px}
span.Apple-tab-span {white-spacere}

span.sgc-4 {font-weight: bold}
b.sgc-3 {font-style: italic}
p.sgc-2 {font-style: italic}
p.sgc-1 {font-weight: bold}

span.sgc-5 {font-weight: normal;}

body.sgc-6 {word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;}
/*]]>*/
</style>
</head>
<body class="sgc-6">
<p class="p1"><img alt="" src="../Images/63212_YoureHired_Cvr_front_sm.jpg" /><br /></p>

<p class="p2 sgc-1"><span class="sgc-5"><br /></span></p>
</body>
</html>
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:16 PM   #5
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Sorry I posted that code twice. What is the smiley face doing in the line: span.Apple-tab-span {white-spacere}? I copied the code from the html file and pasted it into the quick reply, and the smiley appeared. I'm confused!
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Sorry I posted that code twice. What is the smiley face doing in the line: span.Apple-tab-span {white-spacere}? I copied the code from the html file and pasted it into the quick reply, and the smiley appeared. I'm confused!
Because there is a colon) that gets interpreted as an emoticon.

You have no external stylesheet that applies to this page.

Does this page have the problem? The image may have the border/background?
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:53 PM   #7
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What do you mean 'background' :
  • do you mean that there is an image tiled behind your text?
  • do you mean that your text has a background color? (i.e black on white - rather than black on transparent).
  • are you talking about the front cover which you don't want?

Can you provide a screenshot? Can you provide the epub? (you can replace all the text with something else if you wish)
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I found the CSS editor in Calibre and changed the background color to white from the grey it was. This is a pretty steep learning curve for a WYSIWYG print guy like me!

Thanks to all who jumped in to help!
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I found the CSS editor in Calibre and changed the background color to white from the grey it was. This is a pretty steep learning curve for a WYSIWYG print guy like me!
Glad to see you cleared it up. Next time when you have the book opened in Sigil open the .css file (usually found in the style folder) to look for and remove the background color. This .css is file is a separate file from the html files that have the book text.
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