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blueowl
05-07-2007, 06:04 AM
Hello,

I am curious, how to create pdfs, so that thay have page turn as quick as lrfs have.
I have download some pdfs from mobileread (e.g. TreasureIsland - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8303&highlight=treasure) or Little Cinerella from manybooks.net and they are as quick (or slow ;-)) as lrf from sony.
Hovewer when I tried to create pdfs from OpenOffice (using export to pdf), they have approximately twice as long page turning interval.
I tried several fonts, but that didn't help.

So could somebody advice a better way to create pdf?
I would prefer open source tools as I am using linux.

Jirka

Alexander Turcic
05-09-2007, 03:57 AM
Jirka, I tried a couple of Linux command line tools, and I found that while htmldoc creates rather "inefficient" PDF files (causing slow page turns on the Reader), html2ps and pdftex work pretty well.