Calibre formatted epub books

Thu, 12/18/2008 - 09:42 — phunkysai

I have some html books that I have converted with Calibre since Calibre retains pictures, bold, and italics text. However, when I open them in Stanza on the ipod Touch, these books almost display perfectly except for the fact that the last line of text on each page is slightly off the screen at the bottom, so therefore you can't read the last line. When you turn the page, you don't see the last line from the previous page either.

Do you think this is a conversion problem from Calibre, or a problem with stanza in the way that it is displaying epub files created by Calibre?

Thanks for the suggestions...

Stanza Support

Mon, 04/06/2009 - 06:44 — phunkysai

calibre and 1.8

I converted an HTML book with Calibre and tried it out on the new Stanza 1.8 and it appears to work perfectly now! Thanks Lexcycle!!

Sat, 04/04/2009 - 18:35 — Dude (not verified)

I have the same problem :s

Sat, 04/04/2009 - 18:43 — Anonymous (not verified)

Turn off Display Styles. This

Turn off Display Styles. This won't turn off italics or boldface.

Wed, 02/18/2009 - 20:52 — bayz (not verified)

I had the same problem for

I had the same problem for awhile. I tried to make the epubs from both calibre and from InDesign and they both had the same problem.
I think I got it working though...
I'm making them from txts instead of html, but hopefully this will help you too. In Calibre, when you do the convert, go to 'Look & Feel' and check 'Remove spacing between paragraphs' & 'No text justification'. After that it seems to work fine for me.

Thu, 12/18/2008 - 18:48 — someone1guy

This was a problem with the

This was a problem with the old Books.app from the AppTapp installer, too. I believe it is because the HTML file(s) inside the .epub don't have proper ending tags. After having looked at the Calibre generated books, this appears to be the same issue. SIGH... if only Calibre and Stanza could have a baby. Then we could have the strenghts of both (Stanza: Open Book standards conformity/Integration; Calibre: Formatted Text/Meta-data editing).

Honestly, I love the Stanza app for the Iphone and would pay money for it. However, with the current limitations of Stanza Desktop, I wouldn't pay for it. Especially with a superior open-source product with quicker version/bug-fix turn around.

I understand that Lexcycle currently has Formatted text in the plans for a future release of Stanza Desktop, and the support team here has been good about acknowleding the requests on these threads. However, formatted text is crucial to enjoying a good book. Understand that currently the programs are free, but if Stanza were to decide to charge money for the Desktop program (as I believe I read in a FAQ??) then hopefully that is planned in the distant future.

Sorry for the side-bar rant, but the train of thought sort of went that way.