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)