12-27-2007, 05:56 AM | #1 |
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Hi guys....I'm pretty new around here so sorry if I haven't followed protocol or I'm starting a thread thats been repeated elsewhere. Can anybody advise me how to get pdf documents on to the 505 that are readable. Anytime I've loaded a pdf, the font is so small even in the top magnification setting, that I'm unable to read.
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12-27-2007, 08:56 AM | #2 |
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Do a search for pdflrf and use that to modify the PDF so it's readable.
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12-28-2007, 10:19 AM | #3 |
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I will go a step further and tell you the settings that will actually make PDFs that are a collection of scanner images look good and work well on the Reader. Get the pdflrf program mentioned above and use these settings:
The ones to take note of here, moving downward are: 1. Setting "Rotation" to 0. 2. Having "Join pages" turned off 3. Changing "Colors" from 4 to 8. 4. "Scale" can be changed depending on how you want the PDF to look, but to display a whole page the PDF on one page of the Reader, set it to "Fit to page" or "Fit to height." I just noticed that I have "Stretch" turned on here, which fills out the screen with the PDF if you have "Fit to height" or "Fit to width" set. I think you'd get the same effect from just using the "Fit to page" setting, and it might even give a sharper image if it is actually stretching it out to fit the page after shrinking it down (I doubt it). Anyway, like I said, these are the settings to use for a PDF that is a collection of images, such as a scanned book. For manuals/technical stuff with a lot of text, there are certainly some better settings to use, but you'll just have to mess around and find what works best. I am pretty sure that there are some command line versions of this program, and I'd actually appreciate it if somebody could post a quick explanation of how to use the settings I just described using the command line options. I mean, I could probably figure it out myself, but I'd bet that somebody else has already gone down that long road. -Crustachio, Leader of the 35th Smoke of Montague Last edited by spooky69; 12-28-2007 at 12:54 PM. |
12-28-2007, 10:45 AM | #4 |
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And don't forget that f need be, play around with the trim settings to get rid of any extra margin.
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