Just Bought A Sony PRS-505 - PDF Question

weisdaclick · 04-14-2009, 08:06 PM

I am quite impressed with the reader but I have some pdf files which are quite large (around 45mb), these have some pictures.

I have loaded these on the reader but the file size makes it very slow and cannot zoom into the text - therefore illegible.

I would prefer to simplify the document, especially the images which could be converted from photo quality to quite low-res.

I have seen the Sony document to optimize files for the reader but I have not purchased Acrobat or QuarkXpress. I have tried OpenOffice but it cannot open the files and crashes each time.

Is there a tool out there to simplify a pdf document?

weisdaclick · 04-16-2009, 03:49 PM

Guess I'll have to find another forum.

netseeker · 04-16-2009, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by weisdaclick

I am quite impressed with the reader but I have some pdf files which are quite large (around 45mb), these have some pictures.

I have loaded these on the reader but the file size makes it very slow and cannot zoom into the text - therefore illegible.

Your PDF-files are around 45MB? Then the PDFs seem to be Image-PDFs. Such PDF's are not reflowable.

Quote:

Originally Posted by weisdaclick

Is there a tool out there to simplify a pdf document?

PDFRead or soPDF may help to make the PDFs better readable - but keep in mind that Image-PDFs are generally a very bad choice for an eBook-Reader...

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Originally Posted by weisdaclick

Guess I'll have to find another forum.

Guess you should also try the search function or the WIKI first.

ax42 · 04-16-2009, 04:16 PM

Depending on your computing platform of choice, search for soPdf (win) or skim (os x) in the forums and you'll find some good hints. The Sony document also talks in detail about pdfCreator which is, as far as I know, open source.

Good luck
ax42

edit: heh, just one minute too slow.....

BlackVoid · 04-29-2009, 10:13 AM

Use BookDesigner to convert the PDF to LRF.

netseeker · 04-29-2009, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackVoid

Use BookDesigner to convert the PDF to LRF.

Would it make a difference for image PDF's? I don't think so.

RSaunders · 05-11-2009, 12:02 PM

Image PDFs are bitmaps, not words. You'd need an OCR program to turn them into words before you could do anything interesting with them. That's why PDF is always last on a list of recommended formats.

04-14-2009, 08:06 PM	#1
weisdaclick Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: PRS-505	Just Bought A Sony PRS-505 - PDF Question I am quite impressed with the reader but I have some pdf files which are quite large (around 45mb), these have some pictures. I have loaded these on the reader but the file size makes it very slow and cannot zoom into the text - therefore illegible. I would prefer to simplify the document, especially the images which could be converted from photo quality to quite low-res. I have seen the Sony document to optimize files for the reader but I have not purchased Acrobat or QuarkXpress. I have tried OpenOffice but it cannot open the files and crashes each time. Is there a tool out there to simplify a pdf document?

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04-16-2009, 03:49 PM	#2
weisdaclick Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: PRS-505	Guess I'll have to find another forum.

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ax42 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Switzerland Device: PRS505	Depending on your computing platform of choice, search for soPdf (win) or skim (os x) in the forums and you'll find some good hints. The Sony document also talks in detail about pdfCreator which is, as far as I know, open source. Good luck ax42 edit: heh, just one minute too slow.....

04-29-2009, 10:13 AM	#5
BlackVoid Evangelist Posts: 415 Karma: 510423 Join Date: Nov 2006 Device: Sony PRS-505	Use BookDesigner to convert the PDF to LRF.

05-11-2009, 12:02 PM	#7
RSaunders Groupie Posts: 162 Karma: 2054 Join Date: Jan 2007 Device: Sony PRS-500	Image PDFs are bitmaps, not words. You'd need an OCR program to turn them into words before you could do anything interesting with them. That's why PDF is always last on a list of recommended formats.

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