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Thrasymachus · 07-04-2009, 09:18 PM

Hi elegant,

In your first post you say you can view the PDF file in Nitro PDF -- but Nitro PDF does a nice job of cropping pages on its own. I've found that by cropping the page so as eliminate almost all margins and headers and footers, the pages of most ebooks become readable in the Sony Reader. This probably won't work if the original page size is letter or A4 size, but ebooks with original pages sizes of 5" by 7" up to maybe 6.5" by 9" seem to work pretty well, especially if you're willing to read in landscape mode. Of course it depends on the original typeface and other factors, but so far I've tried it on about a half dozen books with good results.

Even if you don't want to do this, if you use Nitro to crop the headers and footers, and to remove the cover and other irrelevant pages, the editing/formatting process would be easier and quicker, I think.

07-04-2009, 09:18 PM	#14
Thrasymachus Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 222 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony Reader PRS-505, Astak EZ Reader	Nitro PDF + Sony Reader Hi elegant, In your first post you say you can view the PDF file in Nitro PDF -- but Nitro PDF does a nice job of cropping pages on its own. I've found that by cropping the page so as eliminate almost all margins and headers and footers, the pages of most ebooks become readable in the Sony Reader. This probably won't work if the original page size is letter or A4 size, but ebooks with original pages sizes of 5" by 7" up to maybe 6.5" by 9" seem to work pretty well, especially if you're willing to read in landscape mode. Of course it depends on the original typeface and other factors, but so far I've tried it on about a half dozen books with good results. Even if you don't want to do this, if you use Nitro to crop the headers and footers, and to remove the cover and other irrelevant pages, the editing/formatting process would be easier and quicker, I think.