Why are my page numbers cut off?

[Books987]

Hello. I searched the forums, Google and Calibre documentation and could not find anything about this. I am new to Calibre so any help troubleshooting this would be appreciated.

I am converting an EPUB to PDF. Everything comes out great, except the page numbers added by Calibre are cut off at the bottom of each page.




Aside from changing the font size in the "PDF Output" options, I didn't touch anything in Calibre.

Here is my conversion log. I can not provide the original EPUB file for copyright reasons. How can I go about troubleshooting this problem?

[Books987]

On line 181 of my conversion log it says:

Bottom margin is too small for footer, increasing it to 9.0pts

Could this be my problem? I'm not sure what this means or how to fix it.


edit:

This was the problem. I went to "Page Setup" in Calibre and changed the bottom margin to 24 pt. and it fixed the problem.

[EbokJunkie]

@Books987

Use Calibre 2.16 or later and put this as header template:

<div style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="even_page"> <p style="overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;max-width:40mm;text-overflow:ellipsis;float:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;">_AUTHOR_</p><p style="overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;max-width:40mm;text-overflow:ellipsis;float:right;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;">_TITLE_</p></div><div style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="odd_page"><p style="overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;max-width:70mm;text-overflow:ellipsis;float:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;">_SECTION_</p><p style="float:right;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;">_PAGENUM_</p></div><hr noshade width="100%" size=1>

You'll get section title and page number at odd pages, author and book title at even pages. Will save you some precious screen estate (header space is better utilized since 2.16).

[Books987]

Thank you, good to know.

Another question:
If I want to use Calibre's "add page numbers to every page" option, is there a way to except certain pages? I don't want the first ten pages of the book to have any page numbers, for example. And there are a few pages later that don't need numbering. Any ideas?

[EbokJunkie]

No way to do this in Calibre. However, you can use PDFill Editor to add customized footers
post factum.

[kovidgoyal]

Sure you can, you can insert arbitrary javascript expressions into the header/footer templates. There is an example of that in the manual http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conv...verting-to-pdf

You simply use an if expression ot have the javascript suppress the pagenumber on pages you dont want it.

[Books987]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Sure you can, you can insert arbitrary javascript expressions into the header/footer templates. There is an example of that in the manual http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conv...verting-to-pdf

You simply use an if expression ot have the javascript suppress the pagenumber on pages you dont want it.

Ok, great! Does a footer expression still work to adjust the "add page numbers" Calibre conversion option? Or do I need to turn that off and just use the footer? Thanks!

[EbokJunkie]

Wow, I forgot about javascript...
Kovid, can we use javascript to set font size of page numbers in points?

[Books987]

Originally Posted by Books987

Ok, great! Does a footer expression still work to adjust the "add page numbers" Calibre conversion option? Or do I need to turn that off and just use the footer? Thanks!

Ok, I guess that option just adds something to the footer, so I unchecked the box and used a modified version of the example you linked. I'm not too familiar with javascript so it might take me awhile to figure out how to do this.

Anyone want to tell me how to omit the page numbers until the page number reaches 11?

edit: Ok, I see now you just told me to use an if statement. Pretty easy - I just need to figure out the syntax. Thanks Kovi.

[Books987]

Oh yeah, first try, baby!

<script>if(_PAGENUM_>10){document.getElementById(" pagenum").innerHTML = "" + (_PAGENUM_);}</script>

edit: The above code inserts no page numbers until page 11. I also wanted to omit page numbers on two other pages later, so I did it like this:

<p id="pagenum" style="text-align:center;"></p><script>if(_PAGENUM_>10 && _PAGENUM_!=15 && _PAGENUM_!=81){document.getElementById("pagenum"). innerHTML = "" + (_PAGENUM_);}</script>

[EbokJunkie]

No need for javascript for font size, just font-size style works. However, empty space in footer is still too large, at least one line gets cut from the text.