"Forcing the font color"?

Okay - on my desktop. Phew! Easier to write.

There might be a way to fix this out of Scrivener but I've not used that for formatting yet --

The download link for Sigil: http://sigil.en.softonic.com/

Only two things that might be tricky: finding the CSS file, and knowing exactly what to delete.
The CSS file will most likely be inside a folder called "Styles", in the "Book Browser" panel on the left. It will have the file extension ".css"

You will see something like this:


Look for any rule that starts with "color:" That sets the font color. Delete the entire line, including the semi colon at the end. So delete, for example, color:black; or color:#000000;
Be careful not to delete any curly brackets. It's really not that hard.
Then save, and you should have a clean ePub.

If you don't find those CSS rules then we have a problem because I don't know what else could cause that error!

I hope somebody else has a better fix?

Oh - another thought.
If you dont find those CSS rules, there is a possibility that they could be set in the pages of the book itself, and not in the CSS file.

This is also easy to fix so don't panic  

With your book open in Sigil, press the little search icon at the top to open "Find and Replace" or hit CTRL and F.
Copy and paste the following into the "Find" field

color:#000000;

And leave the "Replace" empty.

Set the "look" drop down menu to "All HTML Files" so it will search your entire book.

Press the find button.  If the errant CSS is anywhere in your book, that page should open.  Press the "replace" button to delete the rule (replace it with nothing, because you left the replace field empty) or if you like, press "replace all" to do all of them at once.

Also try searching for

color:black;

To fix the problem Atunah spotted with the font, you have to remove some more errant CSS code, and you can do this with Sigil as well, if you want. Essentially:

There are three patterns to look for.

A "font face" declaration:

@font-face
{xxxxx:xxxxx;
xxxxx:xxxxx;}

A "font size" attribute that is set to a value of points:

font-size:xx.0pt;

A "font family" attribute set to any value at all:

font-family:"xxxxx";

you can check out Katie Elle's post

http://www.klerotica.com/?p=114

Or mine: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1E3vJOdiEq2qLiN8TBzgz70HuxpjMXP1-u4tnpLttzBQ

Well some people might not bother complaining. Many just move on and do something else. Then others don't mind a fixed sans serif font in books. I do and I couldn't read it like that. Its too bold and just not easy on my eyes. The other issue with the fire color is another thing where someone might just switch to beige to read it.
But what about those that get the sample, see the formatting and then never get your books.

You can't really go by how many sales you had and nobody complained. You have to go with, is there an issue and how do I fix it. Many of these issues popped up after the KF8 format was introduced with the Paperwhite and shortly before that with an update to the K3. I assume the Touch got a similar update at the same time.

I said in other threads, I am happy to check on my Paperwhite for that font issue if needed. Doesn't take me long to check a sample.