Formatting PDF for Kindle

Kindle10 · 12-26-2008, 04:01 PM

Hi, I recently got a Kindle and was looking into PDF-Read 1.8 which does work great. However, my problem is that I have scans of classic books which have 2 pages per PDF page. The software converts it to a horizontal view of both pages, which is OK, but is difficult to read. Is there a way to chop the PDF pages in half so that 1 "book page" could be viewed in portrait instead?

I was experimenting with the processing options in the software but without much success with what I'm looking for...

Thanks in advance for any help.

llasram · 12-26-2008, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Kindle10

Thanks in advance for any help.

You can convert the PDF to PostScript with 'pdftops', do the page slicing-and-dicing with 'pstops', then turn it back into a PDF with 'ps2pdf'. It's a bit of a hassle, but I've done the same sort of transform that way before.

Bookathon · 12-26-2008, 04:55 PM

Look like pdftops is linux software. No windows or mac?

llasram · 12-26-2008, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bookathon

Look like pdftops is linux software. No windows or mac?

There's almost certainly a Mac version available via fink etc., although I don't know what the package names would be -- Debian has pstopdf, pstops, and pdf2ps in 'poppler-utils', 'psutils', and 'ghostscript' respectively. Likewise for Windows under cygwin, but no idea about Windows-native.

12-26-2008, 04:01 PM	#1
Kindle10 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Kindle	Formatting PDF for Kindle Hi, I recently got a Kindle and was looking into PDF-Read 1.8 which does work great. However, my problem is that I have scans of classic books which have 2 pages per PDF page. The software converts it to a horizontal view of both pages, which is OK, but is difficult to read. Is there a way to chop the PDF pages in half so that 1 "book page" could be viewed in portrait instead? I was experimenting with the processing options in the software but without much success with what I'm looking for... Thanks in advance for any help.

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Bookathon Bookaholic Posts: 72 Karma: 142 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Kindle 1, 3, Ipad	Look like pdftops is linux software. No windows or mac?

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