Pdf to sony reader

The result was still kind of a mess, but at least I think it was something workable. I could read it and follow it, if not easily. There were places where sentences would end midway through the page, page listings that were quite off embedded throughout in the document, and a bunch more issues. Not too good, but I think it could be improved quite a bit once I learn how to use openoffice.

There has got to be a better way though. The opportunity is ripe for an application that I can drag pdf files onto and get back perfectly sized reader format ebooks - one or in batch.

My wallet would snap open quickly for something like that. Maybe I'll have to create it myself. I would nix the touch screen idea for sure, nice as it could be to have: touch screens require a lot more and constant power! The device has to keep polling etc. I really enjoy the very low power consumption of the Sony Reader - continues to amaze me.

Not True for me. Originally Posted by Bob Russell. I've displayed RTF before. I've set the base font size to 16 so it is large enough at small to read comfortably. You could try rtf2lrf if you wanted as well. All times are GMT The time now is AM. Mark Forums Read. User Name. Remember Me? Tip Got Facebook? Thread Tools. Find More Posts by sfernald.

Find More Posts by Bob Russell. Find More Posts by airlik. Quote: Originally Posted by airlik It's remarkable to me how many people suggest that text search is a sorely lacking feature including, recently, the Boston Globe reviewer , and yet each time it comes up Sony always says it wasn't something that made their priority list???

I am, however, a bit disappointed about the way it handles some pdf files. I have a ton a technical ebooks in pdf format math, chemistry, biology and most of them just don't display right on the Reader. I suspect that the Reader, in an attempt to downsample and shrink the original pages, adds considerable degradation to the pdf. Now my question is: how should I manipulate my original pdfs in order to improve legibility on the reader?

Could anyone help? I am still learning the technicalities of image editing and manipulations! Thanks Syldaril. If so you could regenerate PDFs with more suitable formatting I'm about to experiment with htmldoc and will report my results. No, all I have is plain old pdf's. I have noticed that converting individual pdf pages to jpeg and then viewing them on the reader do occasionally considerably improve their appearance I agree with you ath: all the regular typeset pdfs I have tried so far have looked horrible - even in landscape mode - to my great disappointment.

When I think that I wanted to use the Reader with all the pdf ebooks I have Have you noticed that you've got 3 levels of zoom available on the pic viewer? PDF Document File extension. A PDF file can be any length, contain any number of fonts and images and is designed to enable the creation and transfer of printer-ready output. Actions PDF Converter View other document file formats Technical Details Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2D document and, with the advent of Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents that includes the text, fonts, images and 2D vector graphics that compose the document.

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