![]() Since the cleanup on the stylesheets and the saved searches takes just a few minutes, I'm happy as well. My spouse is much happier with the formatting in those epubs after the cleanup. Remove the unused stylesheet entries, clean up the undefined classes in the html files and run my saved search/replaces and I'm are pretty much done. I spend about 30 minutes one day checking the media.css from 5 of my spouse's books and generated a combined file with any Kindle specific media queries/code removed and the media queries removed from the rest so only the CSS was left.īasically, I now replace the body, p and p.subsq code in the styles.css stylesheet and copy/paste the modified dequeried code over the media.css stylesheet. One stylesheet for standard CSS and one for media queries. To me, Vellum is actually quite sensible. With Vellum, it's madness to the madness with no method. At least with InDesign, you can sort of see some method to the madness. Vellum makes more of a mess of the code then InDesign. I do remember seeing one Kindle eBook (I think self-published) where the CSS was nothing but media queries. For the cleanup, I have a collection of saved searches for Sigil that make it fast and easy to clean up most epubs. My preferred editor is Sigil though I also use calibre's editor since there are tasks that are easier on one than the other. That way I can control the margins and avoid the $%^&* idiots who set the margins to ~2.5cm on every side-the paperback emulation view. Most often, the changes I make are settings the margins from the body tag to 0 and widows and orphans to 1. Then you have the CSS and text files that look like entries in the obfuscated C contest. Did they have a high school student as an intern who is learning InDesign on the job. ![]() ![]() About half the books need minor tweaks but there are some where you wonder about the person who created the ebook. Would a standard Calbre default do anything for me?īefore sending to my ereader, I take a quick look at an epub in ADE and/orThorium and/or calibre's ebook viewer-it takes about 3 pages for an edit/don't edit decision. I can use Modify Epub to actually use my Calibre defaults, but I'm wondering if I actually NEED to? Things seem to look fine with the publisher defaults on my Forma. I was running some Quality Check tests on my epubs in Calibre and noted that even though I was using Calibre's default margins (under Preferences > Common Options > Page Setup), none of my epubs were actually using them (they're using the publisher set values).
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