Display Styles - text running off page
Sat, 10/25/2008 - 16:56 — Anonymous
Great program! It beats reading on my Windows Mobile Phone by a fair margin. I am using version 1.5 and have noticed that when "Display Styles" is on, that lines of text aren't broken between pages but display at the bottom of the screen (usually cutting the line in half so you can only see the top halves of the letters). I didn't notice this in 1.4.
Thanks!
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Use another product
I don't think this known issue is a high priority, so luckily in this case I am able to use the eReader app.
Turning off the display
Turning off the display styles is not really a solution, but a work-around. The worst part about it is that it also disables things like the display of italic and bold text, and indented sections. Hopefully this is something that will be (has been?) fixed in the renderer so that it applies the margin-top setting of a multi-page element just to the first page of the element. It might also be nice to have a way to turn off spacing styles separately from font-face/font-style settings.
It ought not turn off bold
It ought not turn off bold and italics, unless the style sheet is using some some special kind of bold and italics.
Yes, turning off Display
Yes, turning off Display Styles is the solution.
Display Styles forces all of the built-in formatting encoded in the style sheet to be interpreted as written. There are things in some cascading style sheets that aren't compatible with a paginated interface.
top-margin of wrapping div causes text to run off the page
I've seen this bug in 1.7. I have figured out that this happens when each chapter has a wrapping div that has a style with a non-zero margin-top value. When this happens, not only does the start of the chapter get the top margin displayed (without any page overflow), but all subsequent pages in the chapter get the top margin too, with stanza putting the normal amount of content on the following pages as if the bogus top-margin was not there. This causes the text to run off the bottom of the screen.
I tested my theory by twiddling the style sheet for an html book and noting the behavior with and without the margin-top style being set (e.g. margin-top: 6% vs margin-top: 0).
Your work-around of disabing Display Styles avoids the display of the margin-top setting, and thus avoids the issue.
Hopefully this will be fixed in the upcoming version 1.8. I guess we'll see.
top-margin of wrapping div causes text to run off the page
This is a known issue. The
Still an issue with V1.9.1
We are up to v1.9.1 on the iPhone, four months later - it still seems to be an issue.
On a purchased ebook from BooksonBoard, published by Pengiun Group USA, I have the same issue with every second page having the last line of text cut in half.
In my case as the book is purchased, it is currently unreadable.
Is there a timeline to fix this known issue?
This problem shouldn't be
This problem shouldn't be happening with eReader files. If you increase/decrease the font size, does it always cut off the last line, or just some of the time? If you just reset all of Stanza's settings (by tapping the button at the bottom of the screen that comes up when you tap the gears icon of the top-level 'Library' page), does it still happen?
Still occurs place under V2 app - but possible solution
I'm using the latest V2 stanza app now, and it is still occurring
I tried increasing the font size, and it still happens. (see screenshot).
I tried putting the font size to a comfortable size, and it still occurs (see screenshot).
When I make the font size really small - it doesn't occur as much, but the text is still in the "progress bar" (see screenshot). The text is too small to read at this size.
However - I have reset settings (screenshot) and with the default margins, it appears to no longer be an issue (see screenshot).
Thanks for the suggestion.