Have my pages set at 8.5 x 11. Margins at 1, 1, 1, 1. Headers and footers set at 0.5. Everything set for single space.
When I type text will fill certain pages. But not others.
Chapter pages will have a one line space which I can live with. I believe this is due to chapter name being a larger font.
But on pages with just text I will have either no space or up to a 3 line gap at the bottom.
Any thoughts?
Gaps at bottom of pages
Could you please email your document file to support@AtlantisWordProcessor.com?
Hi,
Are there privacy reasons for this?
Or are you uncomfortable trusting us with your document?
If this is the case, we guarantee that your document will only be used for test purposes, won’t be transferred to any third-party, won’t be published in any way, and will be destroyed as soon as we have determined what is the cause of your problems.
Now there might be several reasons why a document behaves in the way you describe.
But here are a few hints.
Since this is a document meant for conversion to the EPUB format, there is no need to include headers and footers in it. They won’t be saved to EPUB. The EPUB format does not support headers and footers.
You should not worry too much about having specific margins and lines of text within your “pages” even tough you might feel it helps you design your document. The EPUB format is a “format for reflowable digital books and publications”. This means that such eBooks will display differently on different hardware and screens, depending on how many lines the eReaders can or will fit on the available screen estate, on the type and size of the font used, on the width of the margins, etc. As a consequence, there are no “pages” per se in EPUB eBooks, only screen contents. So it is utterly pointless to try to fit text within “pages” in your source document. The eReaders will simply ignore your “pages” and will reflow your eBook contents as they see fit. There is only one thing you can do to keep some amount of control over the way your eBook will display: you can associate specific paragraphs (generally heading paragraphs) with the “page break before” paragraph attribute, or even better, with a style having similar properties. Heading 1/2/3 styles usually are associated with the “page break before” paragraph attribute. This forces the eReaders to start a new chapter on a new screen “page”. You can also associate these Heading 1/2/3 paragraphs with a certain amount of “Spacing before” so that they will display at a distance from the top of the page. But there is no way you can make sure that the eReaders will display as many lines of text as you designed so carefully in your source document. Where your text is displayed will depend mostly on the way each eReader decides to display it. This is all the more true as many eReaders offer an option to display the eBook text “continuously”, without even bothering to create “pages” for people to flip through. In such cases, people simply scroll down the flow of text and read the book as if they were reading a teleprompter text.
Now your source document might display gaps at the bottom of some pages because the text following these gaps has been pushed to the next page. This might be because the paragraphs starting on that new page have the “Keep with next paragraph” or “Keep intact”, and/or “Widow/Orphan control” attribute. If these attributes are present, try removing them. The corresponding text might jump up to the previous “page”, and fill the gap.
Your source document might also display gaps at the bottom of some pages because the paragraph following these gaps is associated with the “Page break before” paragraph attribute.
You also might have more than one section in your document, with some sections having specific margins and/or headers. How many sections does your document have? You’ll see this clearly if you display the Sections panel of the Control Board.
HTH.
Cheers,
Robert
Are there privacy reasons for this?
Or are you uncomfortable trusting us with your document?
If this is the case, we guarantee that your document will only be used for test purposes, won’t be transferred to any third-party, won’t be published in any way, and will be destroyed as soon as we have determined what is the cause of your problems.
Now there might be several reasons why a document behaves in the way you describe.
But here are a few hints.
Since this is a document meant for conversion to the EPUB format, there is no need to include headers and footers in it. They won’t be saved to EPUB. The EPUB format does not support headers and footers.
You should not worry too much about having specific margins and lines of text within your “pages” even tough you might feel it helps you design your document. The EPUB format is a “format for reflowable digital books and publications”. This means that such eBooks will display differently on different hardware and screens, depending on how many lines the eReaders can or will fit on the available screen estate, on the type and size of the font used, on the width of the margins, etc. As a consequence, there are no “pages” per se in EPUB eBooks, only screen contents. So it is utterly pointless to try to fit text within “pages” in your source document. The eReaders will simply ignore your “pages” and will reflow your eBook contents as they see fit. There is only one thing you can do to keep some amount of control over the way your eBook will display: you can associate specific paragraphs (generally heading paragraphs) with the “page break before” paragraph attribute, or even better, with a style having similar properties. Heading 1/2/3 styles usually are associated with the “page break before” paragraph attribute. This forces the eReaders to start a new chapter on a new screen “page”. You can also associate these Heading 1/2/3 paragraphs with a certain amount of “Spacing before” so that they will display at a distance from the top of the page. But there is no way you can make sure that the eReaders will display as many lines of text as you designed so carefully in your source document. Where your text is displayed will depend mostly on the way each eReader decides to display it. This is all the more true as many eReaders offer an option to display the eBook text “continuously”, without even bothering to create “pages” for people to flip through. In such cases, people simply scroll down the flow of text and read the book as if they were reading a teleprompter text.
Now your source document might display gaps at the bottom of some pages because the text following these gaps has been pushed to the next page. This might be because the paragraphs starting on that new page have the “Keep with next paragraph” or “Keep intact”, and/or “Widow/Orphan control” attribute. If these attributes are present, try removing them. The corresponding text might jump up to the previous “page”, and fill the gap.
Your source document might also display gaps at the bottom of some pages because the paragraph following these gaps is associated with the “Page break before” paragraph attribute.
You also might have more than one section in your document, with some sections having specific margins and/or headers. How many sections does your document have? You’ll see this clearly if you display the Sections panel of the Control Board.
HTH.
Cheers,
Robert