This is day 1 with my reader 505, so if this is a stupid question, I promise to learn quickly.

But... I just logged onto wowio and downloaded Stephen Hawking's Theory of Everything. It was somewhat a test of life outside Sony Connect and also, well... I like big scary non-fiction books.

So it works and its over on my Reader but holy cow the font size is small. Zoom doesn't seem to do anything. Is there something I am missing to make the font size bigger? Unravelling the universe at font size 6 might be even more painful. :eek:

thanks all.

This is day 1 with my reader 505, so if this is a stupid question, I promise to learn quickly.

But... I just logged onto wowio and downloaded Stephen Hawking's Theory of Everything. It was somewhat a test of life outside Sony Connect and also, well... I like big scary non-fiction books.

So it works and its over on my Reader but holy cow the font size is small. Zoom doesn't seem to do anything. Is there something I am missing to make the font size bigger? Unravelling the universe at font size 6 might be even more painful. :eek:

thanks all.

Wowio only use A4 PDF files. The 505 is much smaller than A4. You need to convert this file into something else: LRF would be the best choice in this case.

thanks hadrien. glad its not just me and there is a reason for it.
any hints on how to convert it? i've been reading through here for a bit but still haven't worked out the starter steps, i think.

Ok, ignore me. I just found HarryT's guide and am going through it. hopefully i can get this going. thanks for the help, Hadrien.

Where did you find HarryT's guide? Does it give you an answer? I, too, found Wowio's font size much too small even after converting it from PDF to LRF format.

voila

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10313

thanks to HarryT for spelling it all out... most appreciated.

I've converted a Wowio PDF using PDFLRF and it came out pretty good. Quite readable.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13135

Maybe its me. And maybe its day 1 of Sony PRS-505, but this isn't working either.
I have the ghostscript thing installed. I run the pdflrfwin-0.99 tool thing and i get an output that is empty... as in 0 kilobytes. nada. what am i doing wrong?

i just wanted to read books. shame on sony for making it so dang challenging.

So it works and its over on my Reader but holy cow the font size is small. Zoom doesn't seem to do anything. Is there something I am missing to make the font size bigger? Unravelling the universe at font size 6 might be even more painful. :eek:


Have you tried reading it in landscape viewing mode? The text is noticeably larger in this orientation. On the PRS-500, holding down the size/zoom button for a couple of seconds makes it toggle between portrait and landscape orientation. I assume this is also true for the 505.

yeah, it sort of works. problem is that because it is still so zoomed out the font itself is really light in comparison to all the other ebooks. its certainly more readable, but not ideal.:bookworm:

Maybe its me. And maybe its day 1 of Sony PRS-505, but this isn't working either.
I have the ghostscript thing installed. I run the pdflrfwin-0.99 tool thing and i get an output that is empty... as in 0 kilobytes. nada. what am i doing wrong?

i just wanted to read books. shame on sony for making it so dang challenging.
Don't use Ghostscript and pdflrf will work fine. Also don't forget to use the trim option to get rid of excess borders and you'll need to preview to check your options.

Doesn't work still. I think there may be copyright protection on the file (?) which is making it come back as empty each time. What a bummer. I was actually hoping to finally understand "everything"... at least in "theory." :)

Doesn't work still. I think there may be copyright protection on the file (?) which is making it come back as empty each time. What a bummer. I was actually hoping to finally understand "everything"... at least in "theory." :)
I have use pdflrf on Wowio PDF and it's worked fine. I did not use Ghostscript. pdflrf does not actually need it.

Wow, this whole process is humbling.
Ok, it worked. Kind of. I did what you told me and previewed and then pulled in the left and right margins 12 points, which seemed to make it look like it fit well. converted ok. pushed it over onto the reader and now its readable, which is good, but it has done weird page breaks sort of. So now its showing me extra space at the top of the page and then cutting the page off so when i hit the forward button its broken into 2 half pages next. I am presuming this means I need to trim the top and bottom too to get it to show right, but the preview looked totally normal, so now I am not sure how to tell when I have it right for the display.

am i just dumber than the average user or what?!

Actually, i will answer that myself.
Yep. dumber than the average bear. I just saw the "scale" option and it was set to fit by width. changed it to fit to page and now it worked.
Jon, thank you. I had given up, honestly. You just made my day. And my Sony Reader a lot more populated. Thank you.

You are very welcome. What I was going to do was ask you which book it was and then go get that book and covert it and give you the settings. But since you figured it out, no need. Glad you got it figured out.

It seems like each book you have to sort of futz with to get it to fit, huh? There isn't just a standard you can use and reuse. Each one is its own little project.

I love Roslindale, btw... lived for years over in JP. :)

I am also interested in that same book. (I have a wowio account; haven't used it much.) Jenna, can you post the exact settings you used? (I recall playing with pdflrf a while back and never being satisfied with results.)

My grandparents used to live in Roslindale, corner of Cummins Highway, across from the fire house.

It seems like each book you have to sort of futz with to get it to fit, huh? There isn't just a standard you can use and reuse. Each one is its own little project.

I love Roslindale, btw... lived for years over in JP. :)
I'm not 100% positive, but you'd only have to play with the settings to cut off the margins at worst case I think.

I really do like Roslindale. Very nice place. Easy T access too. Where are you now?

See, now I am playing. I shouldn't do that. By going back to no specific cropping and whatever it breaks the pages and recombines them in a weird way. I had them separate for a while but it was only using 3/4s of the page, so I played more. Either way its better, but I need to nail down the combination of things that optimizes it best. Leave it to Stephen Hawking to make it challenging.

I live in NYC now. I am, no joke, the reverse Babe Ruth. Got "traded" to NY back in August of 2004 and when the ALCS came up, here I was in enemy territory in my Red Sox hat. People laughed. Until game 4. I wound up travelling, purely by coincidence, back to Boston, in October and wound up being in the same town as each of the 7 games of the 2004 ALCS. It was weird.

in 2007 I worked back in Boston for a client and was there for yet one more penant. I was in town for each of the home games.

Coincidence... I think not.

The Sony Reader... just a hobby. Being the reverse Babe Ruth... my calling. If you are truly born and bred Beantown, you'll appreciate how superstitious that has made me about my boys at Fenway. :thumbsup:

I am also interested in that same book. (I have a wowio account; haven't used it much.) Jenna, can you post the exact settings you used? (I recall playing with pdflrf a while back and never being satisfied with results.)

My grandparents used to live in Roslindale, corner of Cummins Highway, across from the fire house.

Once I figure it out in a way that makes me happy, I will post the info. It's not 100% for me just yet. :smack:

I was in NYC in August. I have a cousin who lives in NYC. And now we have the Patriots for the WIN!

I live in NYC now. I am, no joke, the reverse Babe Ruth. Got "traded" to NY back in August of 2004 and when the ALCS came up, here I was in enemy territory in my Red Sox hat. People laughed. Until game 4. I wound up travelling, purely by coincidence, back to Boston, in October and wound up being in the same town as each of the 7 games of the 2004 ALCS. It was weird.

in 2007 I worked back in Boston for a client and was there for yet one more penant. I was in town for each of the home games.

Coincidence... I think not.

The Sony Reader... just a hobby. Being the reverse Babe Ruth... my calling. If you are truly born and bred Beantown, you'll appreciate how superstitious that has made me about my boys at Fenway. :thumbsup:

I too live in NYC now, and feel kinda the same wrt the Pats. I used to have a big SB party every year.Moved to NY in late 2001 to a temporary apt. And, for the first time in many years, had no place to have a party and the big screen was in storage, and the Pats won the Superbowl! (Never thought I'd see that!)

But I do like going to Yankee Stadium wearing my Dwight Evans jersey. :D

Last time we went to NYC for the weekend, I wore my Red Sox hat. if I go again, I'll wear my official Red Sox World Series hat.

Has anyone sucessfully converted on of these books. I mean I can convert them with pdf2lrf but I would rather not due to having to rotate the screen and the size. The problem I am running into is the headers and footers. The full Adobe does not reconize headers and footers so I can not remove them.

I was able to bring it into BD and remove some of the headers and footers but removing the page numbers I could not do. Some of it was that there are numbers and Roman numerals other times.

I would be better if you can specify a physical portion of the top and bottom of the screen to cut off. If I could say cut off a inch from the top and bottom it would cut out the headers and footers. Anyone ever seen something to do that in PDF? Maybe that function in BD would be great.

Thanks!