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Setting default ePub font in iBooks

I acquired a sample epub file from a client to use as a template for new epub files. When I open this file in iBooks (v 1.0.1), the paragraph text by default has the font Iowan, and the style ...
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Change eBook font doesn't change font for ordered/unordered lists

I've created an ePUB with fonts exported so that when viewed on "Original" (eg in iBooks), you see the same font as the paperback edition of the book. But if you change the font in iBooks (...
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Adding a background image in Calibre

To get a background image in Calibre, I gather that I need to open a book and right click. This will expose a menu. Choosing "Preferences" >> "Styles" opens a GUI to change ...
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how to read code part of technical book on kobo

I have many technical ebooks with coding examples but it's unreadable because there's no scrollbar and many lines are longer than my ebook screen. I have tried to change it in an open ebook by adding ...
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How well does Google Play Books support page-oriented css? (i.e., page breaks)

While testing ebooks, I have been finding deficiencies in css support in Google Play Books. Namely, this doesn't work: h2 { page-break-before: always; } GPB's support for embedded ...
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Removing white background from linked images

My first epub looks fine when viewed in iBooks, but it has a problem in Kindle. Hyperlinked home page icons have a white background. So a triangular image just looks like a big white square. I added ...
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Need a Workaround for CSS Overrides

I'm working on an epub in Sigil. Things are going pretty good, but I'm puzzled by some kind of CSS bug. For example, I want all the fonts in the table of contents section to be sans-serif. So I put ...
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landscape orientation in ereaders: css for both 1 and 2 page layout?

I'm trying to write css media queries for landscape and portrait orientations. With widths of 1024 pix and wider, you think that 1024 pixels is enough to have 2 columns instead of 1. But does any ...
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Is there an equivalent of TeX's \hfill in CSS?

Subject says it all. I know that I can use float:left and float:right, but this does not work if the combined lenght of texts is more than a line. I would like to have some text anchored to the left ...
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EPUB 3 CSS stylesheet ignored in some cases?

I created a MOBI file using Kindlegen. I fed the MOBI file to Calibre and converted it to an EPUB. If I view the HTML files I used to create the MOBI file, they look great. All formatting is picked ...