Hi.

I've been having trouble with converting the files I have from proper viewing on my Iliad. Since zooming is not working in the PDF viewer yet and the HTML viewer doesn't provide page numbers, I need to make them about A5 format with a still readable font size.

Consider me stupid and help me out...^^

First, Congrats, ComanderROR,

Guessing here -- can you print the HTML into PDF with the page size set to the iLiad's screen size and no margins?

As a side note, any word as to the mAh capacity of the battery?

You mentioned, that u used Adobe Acrobat Pro?
Then do the following:
File -> Create PDF -> From Webpage (or from File, or from multiple files)
Choose webpage (or files)
Edit Settings: Page Layout: choose A5
OK and Create.

Thats it.

As a side note, any word as to the mAh capacity of the battery?

Yap, 1100 mAh.

1100mAh! wow. That ought to run our USB LED lamp for something like 36 hours & 20 minutes ... if you don't turn pages, of course. :)

... say, Tribble ... where'd you get that number? Has yours arrived too, you sneaky rascal?

... say, Tribble ... where'd you get that number? Has yours arrived too, you sneaky rascal?

No, but i asked iRex and thats what they told me :)

*wishes to be a sneaky rascal*

*wishes to be a sneaky rascal*
Don't we all, don't we all.

@tribble

unfortunately i can't accesss setting...Acrobat help tells me to access those as well, but they're greyed out...strange...i'll keep trying

btw, i have another solution for you CommanderROR.

Using Firefox:
Extras -> Options -> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Settings
There you can set a minimum Fontsize, which will be used for Print aswell.

Then use Acrobat Printer to print to A5 size paper.

I'll try that..thanks

Just set up a PDF printer using PDFCreator under Windows or CUPS under Linux.

And I assume there's already a Linux tool to resize a A4 PDF to a A5 one. Anyone knows?

I need to make them about A5 format with a still readable font size.

It is a good idea to tell us if you are using Windows, Linux or MacOS when doing this kind of questions.

And I assume there's already a Linux tool to resize a A4 PDF to a A5 one. Anyone knows?

Don't know about PDF, but for Postscript (.ps). ps<->pdf is dead easy, because the "print to file" of all applications actually creates postscript files, and ps2pdf and pstopdf do ps->pdf.

Postscript scaling can be done with pstops.

works great. the margins left and right are too large, but it's ok for now.

works great. the margins left and right are too large, but it's ok for now.

which solution did work for you?

I need to make them about A5 format with a still readable font size.

Depends a a bit what supporting tools you have.

Print HTML to PostScript printer (with A5 page size), and redirect output to file, which you then run through a PS2PDF distiller. (Some experimentation will be needed to decide best scale factor for HTML typefaces).

Do the same, but to directly to PDF printer, after setting it up with correct page size..

Or be weird ... print HTML to TIFF, load TIFF into OCR software, tell OCR to output PDF file of appropriate size and typeface size. (That's really stretching it, that is ...)

I print with Adobe to a manual 12cm x 16 cm format with borders top: 0,8 left/right: 0,9 and bottom: 0,5 and i have to say its nice to read.

The standard A5 had a little bit to large borders for my taste ...

Actually you only have 12cm x 15cm as reading space, the rest is for all the iliad icons. Try that and you will have better margins left and right

http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5366&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=c8118a25b603de180d33f67e01249aba

New version of the Program TaKir recommended for resizing PDF files. I haven't tried it yet, but if somebody needs it...give us all some feedback please.

Thanks.