Glo An ebook processing flow that can improve your experience of reading PDF on kobo glo

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by stewacide

Googling, I can find lots of tools to automatically turn Comic Archives into PDFs, but nothing for PDF to CBR/CBZ.

Because it's a strange thing to do...

[ghero]

Originally Posted by jusmee

Fine, but I suggest you DO read some other threads about this very subject so you might understand why your method doesn't solve the main problem with PDFs on the Kobo.

Can you prove that my method does not solve the main problem? Reflow solves main problem for format focused pdf?

To convert pdf to image and process it has many potential benfits, you can spilt one page into many parts (by using software) to further improve your reading it on kobo. Which is an extension effort of the method in the original thread.

BTW, I am not solving any main problem, in the title, I said to improve the reading experience. "to improve" that's all I need for writing this.

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by ghero

To convert pdf to image and process it has many potential benfits,

Not when the device you are using to read it is smaller than the target publishing size for the PDF it doesn't. This the case for the kobo and most PDFs.

I thought you were through discussing this?

[ghero]

Originally Posted by jusmee

Not when the device you are using to read it is smaller than the target publishing size for the PDF it doesn't. This the case for the kobo and most PDFs.

I thought you were through discussing this?

I said, the potential benefits includes split that image(of page) into parts (for example, sth like sony does with colomn splits), which is sth make sense if you want to read a large size pdf on a small e ink screen.

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by ghero

I said, the potential benefits includes split that image(of page) into parts (for example, sth like sony does with colomn splits), which is sth make sense if you want to read a large size pdf on a small e ink screen.

It makes more sense to keep it as text and reflow it to fit the screen - much more.

[ghero]

Originally Posted by jusmee

It makes more sense to keep it as text and reflow it to fit the screen - much more.

Hello? format? FORMAT, FORMAT (images, charts, tables, symbols...)!!!!

You are dealing with pdf, not epub!!!!!

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by ghero

Hello? format? FORMAT, FORMAT (images, charts, tables, symbols...)!!!!

You are dealing with pdf, not epub!!!!!

We said we wanted to improve the reading experience didn't we? Chopping it up into small images ruins the format too. Any attempt to read, for example, an A4 page, on a 6" screen, must compromise on formatting, or else it is just too hard to read. I just want to be able to read the text.

[ghero]

Originally Posted by jusmee

We said we wanted to improve the reading experience didn't we? Chopping it up into small images ruins the format too. Any attempt to read, for example, an A4 page, on a 6" screen, must compromise on formatting, or else it is just too hard to read. I just want to be able to read the text.

LOL, there are ways to split a page so you can read. (like each splitted parts cover some of its neighbouring parts as well, to keep continuety of reading). I am not even going into any details of cases. I dont have to split a page in a stupid way that people can't read, I can do in anyway which improves the reading that I can manage.

[ghero]

Originally Posted by jusmee

We said we wanted to improve the reading experience didn't we? Chopping it up into small images ruins the format too. Any attempt to read, for example, an A4 page, on a 6" screen, must compromise on formatting, or else it is just too hard to read. I just want to be able to read the text.

Also, chopping off the blank part on the sides of the page, to let the reader focus only on the actual content, this does not make sense to you?

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by ghero

LOL, there are ways to split a page so you can read. (like each splitted parts cover some of its neighbouring parts as well, to keep continuety of reading). I am not even going into any details of cases. I dont have to split a page in a stupid way that people can't read, I can do in anyway which improves the reading that I can manage.

OK, I am sure your motives are good, but I cannot agree that what you suggest works well, for me anyway, it really doesn't. Still, I gave you karma for being one of the people trying to solve the problem.

[ghero]

Originally Posted by jusmee

OK, I am sure your motives are good, but I cannot agree that what you suggest works well, for me anyway, it really doesn't. Still, I gave you karma for being one of the people trying to solve the problem.

Thank you, finally we got a cease fire agreement.

Reflow text I think in many situations can be very helpful too. You can adjust formats on your own with kobo, and you can use dictionaries with reflowed version too.

Shake hands.

[jusmee]

yep....

[Elfuente]

never mind!

[Beginner-reader]

I just thought I'd mention k2pdfopt. It's a program that's very simple to use and that's free. I formatted a couple of PDFs with it and I can now read them on my Kindle. It doesn't work for all PDFs though, but that's probably because I'm not familiar with all of the settings yet.
It handles small images very well, but struggles with columns and different font sizes.
It's also very slow, so I probably won't have the time to play with the settings to find the right ones.