Thursday, April 21, 2011

ePub Text Too Big or Too Small [Fix]

Problem: font is either to big or too small.

Solution: make the font size around 21.

Pages on the Mac is, in my experience, THE way to create ePub files from text documents. If Pages can open the file, it can make an ePub out of it in one step. It can even export documents in PDF format. For the price ($23?) it’s invaluable for the author with a Mac.

One problem with ePub files created with Pages, however, is that it produces with text that is either too small or gigantic. A simple solution to this problem is to make the font size of the document around 21 before exporting it to ePub.

I suppose, in hindsight, I’m an idiot. I assumed that the font size of the initial document would be independent from the finished ePub. If that was the case, it would mean the file ignore’s larger fonts for chapters and stuff. As I said, idiot.

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