diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/html_writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/html_writer.py
index 99e7ec2771..f27fc5ca9e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/html_writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/html_writer.py
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ def add_header_footer(manager, opts, pdf_doc, container, page_number_display_map
report_progress(0.8, _('Adding headers and footers'))
name = create_skeleton(container)
root = container.parsed(name)
- reset_css = 'margin: 0; padding: 0; border-width: 0; background-color: unset;'
+ reset_css = 'margin: 0; padding: 0; border-width: 0; background-color: unset; column-count: unset; column-width: unset;'
root.set('style', reset_css)
body = last_tag(root)
body.attrib.pop('id', None)