Hi,

Recently re-installed Windows on my PC. For converting to PDF...before I used some code to get custom headers. I lost the code I had used and I'm trying to re-create it now.

In the PDF output dialog box there are two fields for custom headers and footers. Please can you help me to clean up this code I found so I can enter it correctly?

I used to have the terms to enter there exactly as they should be entered, but since the Windows reinstall the only code left I could find is below - but it seems mixed with HTML.

If I want to clean up the terms so that the unnecessary HTML is excised, what would it look like?

HEADER:
pdf_header_template: u'<header style="justify-content: flex-end; color: gray; font-size: x-small">\n <div class="even-page">_AUTHOR_</div>\n <div class="odd-page"><i>_SECTION_</i></div>\n</header>'

pdf_footer_template: u'<p style="text-align:center; color: gray; font-size: x-small"> _PAGENUM_</p>'

Going in these two fields here: ibb.co/3k40sdg

I'm working with 3.48 on 64 bit Windows machine.

Thanks!

Blaine

Got the answer! Just read the documentation.

Ah! But...something's wrong - according to the documentation:

You can even put different content on even and odd pages, for example the following header template will show the title on odd pages and the author on even pages:
<header style="justify-content: flex-end">
<div class="even-page">_AUTHOR_</div>
<div class="odd-page"><i>_TITLE_</i></div>
</header>
calibre will automatically replace _TITLE_ and _AUTHOR_ with the title and author of the document being converted. Setting justify-content to flex-end will cause the text to be right aligned.

BUT! Using that very code there put everything at the left?

So! Please if I could re-request my request. Below was a SWEET kind of header that worked once for me, and for a long time. How can I apply it again? What should the code look like?

pdf_header_template: u'<header style="justify-content: flex-end; color: gray; font-size: x-small">\n <div class="even-page">_AUTHOR_</div>\n <div class="odd-page"><i>_SECTION_</i></div>\n</header>'

pdf_footer_template: u'<p style="text-align:center; color: gray; font-size: x-small"> _PAGENUM_</p>'

Also, please how can I set the distance from the edge of the page?

For the footer - using this code - it has like a half inch of blank space below the page number. Just like a printed book.

<p style="text-align:center; color: gray; font-size: x-small"> _PAGENUM_</p>

Using this code for the header,

<header style="justify-content: flex-end; color: gray; font-size: x-small"><div class="odd-page"><i>_SECTION_</i></div></header>

The text it right at the very edge of the top of the page. And, sadly on EVERY page, not just the odd pages as described.

So, question is expanded:

How to make the headers behave as described here:
You can even put different content on even and odd pages, for example the following header template will show the title on odd pages and the author on even pages:
<header style="justify-content: flex-end">
<div class="even-page">_AUTHOR_</div>
<div class="odd-page"><i>_TITLE_</i></div>
</header>
calibre will automatically replace _TITLE_ and _AUTHOR_ with the title and author of the document being converted. Setting justify-content to flex-end will cause the text to be right aligned.

Then, how to get the header, once it is working, to sit more in the center of the top margin.

I tried to post images, but the BB code didn't work. And, direct links are stripped out.

Sincerely,

Blaine

export to RTF, docx, doc etc, something a wordprocessor understands.
Then set the page size in a Wordprocessor.
You'll want at least two or three styles of page. Front matter, body, rear matter.
Setup headers and footers etc.
Check all the styles, fonts and layout suit paper.
Export / Save As PDF.
Older versions of Word need a plugin.
LibreOffice from 5.x and later produce very good PDFs

BTW, the ONLY use for a PDF of a novel is for Print on Demand. The epub is far superior as an eBook. PDFs are not eBooks, but either preview for print or a file for someone else to print. Portable Document Format.
Note that paper prints and paper publishing need typically 300 dpi images at an actual size for the size of book. Traditionally ebooks use lower resolution and smaller images.

Hi Quoth,

I need to use PDF.

Can you see any reason for the error, or a way to fix it?

Sincerely,

Blaine

The documentation doesnt work for calibre 3.x. The PDF output engine was re-written for calibre 4. I'm afraid that calibre 3 is too old, its going to be difficult to get support for it.

Here's the docs for calibre 3 pdf output

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...verting-to-pdf

Export RTF to a Wordprocessor and adjust. Then create/export PDF direct from wordprocessor.

A PDF direct from an ebook is more limited.