How to make VobSubs created by Txt2VobSub look nicer?

[ma-fia]

I've researched quite a bit, but didn't come up with a useful anwer.
I have a number of favorite DVDs that I converted to .mkv's (as usual) for ease of use on the computer, but the original VobSub has hearing impared stuff in it which is rather bothersome.
So I converted VobSubs to .srt (no trouble at all here), purged out all the "hearing" stuff. The problem is that on the computer screen .srt's look very bulky and all lines are messed up.
I couldn't find a solution how to change font size or make them smaller, so the easiest way seems to convert .srt's back to VobSub. Only any font I tried looks so much worse and raggedy, compared to the original crisp and nwell-spaced VobSub font.

Don't know if it's relevant: I run PC Tools Firewall on my comp, and when I got a message that Txt2VobSub wants to "control and modiry the system" (it's not verbatim, but along those lines), I blocked that. Didn't seem to influence the workings of the program, still puts out VobSubs as promised...

[AlanHK]

DVDsubedit has an option to remove hearing impaired text from a VOBSUB, and manually edit, without converting to SRT (though it does OCR so it knows where the letters are).
See its help manual, sect 5.4

As for how an SRT renders, there is no formatting in an SRT, just text. How it looks depends entirely on your player's settings.

[ma-fia]

Oh, great. I will give it a try, definitely.
I hope it has options to change alignment, color, etc.
It's rather late now, so I'll probably play with it tomorrow.
Thank you.

As far as player goes - it's one and only: VLC.

I have been reading about some .style files, but couldn't quite get how to deal with them and if they even apply to .srt.

G'night

[ma-fia]

Well, downloaded the application, and it wouldn't read idx/sub combination. Am I not getting something or calling something a wrong name? The track did say "VobSub".

[AlanHK]

Well, downloaded the application, and it wouldn't read idx/sub combination. Am I not getting something or calling something a wrong name? The track did say "VobSub".

Use SubtoSup to convert the idx/sub to a SUP file and open that in DVDsubedit.
I'm pretty sure you can mux SUP into MKV.

I think SubtitleCreator can convert back to SUB/IDX if you really need to. (Haven't tried that myself though.)

[ma-fia]

I think SubtitleCreator can convert back to SUB/IDX if you really need to. (Haven't tried that myself though.)

For some reason it would not read my srt's (created with SubtitleEdit). Error in 1st line and go figure.

[ma-fia]

So I kinda gave up on Subtitle Edit. How can anybody tell what's wrong, when I can't sitting right in front of it.
"Error reading subtitle number 1.|<i>(Input string was not in a correct format.)"

[AlanHK]

I think SubtitleCreator can convert back to SUB/IDX if you really need to. (Haven't tried that myself though.)

For some reason it would not read my srt's (created with SubtitleEdit). Error in 1st line and go figure.

I mentioned that to convert between the bitmap formats SUP and IDX/SUB.
When were we ever talking about SRT?

But as you are now, POST THE FIRST FEW LINES and we might indeed be able to "go figure".

[ma-fia]

I'm sorry, I got totally confused here.

I was trying to examine two possibilities (sorry if it was unclear):

1) VobSub (idx/sub) --> .srt (via SubtitleEdit)--> remove unwanted stuff, convert back to --> VobSub (idx/sub) (via Txt2VobSub) (I rather like this one, 'cause I more or less understand it.)
2) Edit VobSub (idx/sub) to remove hearing impared stuff (at this point I don't understand if this procedure requires intermediate steps)

I don't care which possibility, as long as the output looks "nice". Option No.1 actually gives fairly decent results and ease of editing, but I'd like a better font and nicer "picture" if possible.

Could you please specify which first few lines from which file in which format you need me to post?

Please bear with me, I really have nobody to talk to about all this stuff, and many a time I express myself not very clearly or call things wrong names, since I don't really understand how things work, just that they work at this point. It's a bumpy learning curve, but I'm steadily getting where I want to be, I guess.

Thank you.

[AlanHK]

DVDSubedit edits the subtitle bitmap, in SUP format (after converting from SUB/IDX). Which is your 2).
It can delete, reposition or change the colours.
So the remaining text is unchanged. But you can't add text.

SRT is a plain text file. Post the first few lines of that, just paste with CODE tags (the # icon you see above).

[ma-fia]

OK, I get it. I guess, option #2 is out then - in many places only part of the text needs to be deleted, and the rest kept.

Here's a few lines of an .srt (made with SubtitleEdit from VobSubs) that SubtitleCreator does not want to import through "open text subtitles" option:

1
00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,804
Ow!

2
00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,484
Hey, Ed?

3
00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,450
- You OK?
- There's blood.

4
00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,242
It's only a paper cut.

5
00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,846
Uh, listen, Ed. I need to talk to you.