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Old 07-23-2006, 07:08 AM   #1
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Readble content on my iliad - nope :(

It can't just be me, can it? I've got two basic types of source file. Microsoft LIT and some PDF (all un encrypted) no problems actually getting them onto the device. My problem is the text it just too damn small. I'm converting the lits to PDF using Amber Lit Converter However the end result is always the same stuff looks to small to read comfortably.

I'm wondering do I wait for OEB support or a zoom function. Anyone having trouble also?
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Old 07-23-2006, 07:33 AM   #2
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Yes - PDFs are all unreadable in my Opinion. The HTML-Viewer offers Text-Size-Increasing, but has no "page" functionality yet. The APABI-Reader looks very good, but there is no non-chinese creation-software.

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Old 07-23-2006, 07:34 AM   #3
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Have you tried to go into the settings and change the pagesize for PDF to A5?
That should help a bit.

I get pagenumbers and page headers spreadded across the document. Any way to get rid of those?
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Old 07-23-2006, 07:36 AM   #4
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The problem is that the PDF's are to big, so it will be resized proportionaly by the iLiad. The real viewing space of a PDF viewer is 120x150 mm (the hight is because of the buttonbar). Resized Fonts looking realy ugly and small.

I got the best quality whenn I crop the white space around the text.
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Old 07-23-2006, 07:37 AM   #5
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I get pagenumbers and page headers spreadded across the document. Any way to get rid of those?
You can crop it with Acrobat.
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You can crop it with Acrobat.
No, i meant, the pagenumbers where in the middle of pages. But that was my fault. Convertet from a wrong file.
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Old 07-23-2006, 08:25 AM   #7
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As tribble said, goto the pdf options in the lit converter and set the page size to A5, the font size stays the same. As the iLiad scales up pdfs to fit the screen, the text looks bigger.
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Old 07-23-2006, 04:35 PM   #8
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If you have the AutoPagex plugin http://www.evermap.com/autopage.asp (see pdf size thread -- demo free but with DEMO watermark) you can in acrobat

1. Use AutoPagex DividePages to split a pdf page to 2 halves (upper/lower)
2. Crop to remove all margins
3. Rotate 90 degrees conter-clockwise

and the result is not too bad, although your pdf file will be quite big. You will have one half pdf page to each iRex page.

Not perfect, and a bit laborious, but better than original unreadable format.

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Old 07-23-2006, 06:55 PM   #9
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I achieved more or less the same result using acrobat, but without this autopagex plugin. (note I said acrobat and not adobe reader).
Here's what I did with an A4, 12pt font and generous margins document:
I cropped the whitespace, and then I printed to a new file using the adobe printer, setting the page size to 120x150. I configured the print setup to 'tile all pages' and reduce the zoom level to somewehere near 80%, so it doesn't split every page in four.
I also set a 5mm overlap (the amount of the bottom of the first half that gets repeated at the top of the second half), which works well for a 12pt font.
The effect is that Acrobat automatically prints to landscape and splits the pages in half, repeating the parts that overlap to the specified parameter[funny: I set the printer to landscape and the result were pages upside down... someone said something about left handed use...]. So you get a new PDF document with some margins on the sides, which you can use to insert a page number.
I played around using the adobe printer along with acrobat, you can achieve some decent results. I am yet to try this, but I plan to print to pages slightly smaller in height than 150mm, then add top and bottom margins using the crop tool. That way the split pages will look much better.
Well, I guess the results are good 'cause the damn thing just isn't here yet. I think the results I got should be quite readable on the iLiad. I can't upload the files since these are copyrighted books.

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Old 07-23-2006, 08:02 PM   #10
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Not perfect, and a bit laborious, but better than original unreadable format.
You can also do it this way, just crop horizontally not vertically.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7044
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Old 07-23-2006, 11:17 PM   #11
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The problem with PDF is that it was created not as a reading format, but as a printing format. For this reason it was never intended to have capabilities such as reflow and cropping. The Acrobat started implementing them a few versions ago, but they are sketchy features at best and many third-party PDF readers such as xpdf don't support them at all.
So if you tried to read a PDF which has been created on an A4 template on a screen that is only 12x15 cm big you don't need to be a genius to know what happens.

It is possible to create PDFs that will look absolutely gorgeous on the iLiad since the iLiad has near-print quality screen, but you need to do it right:

1 - Extract the text/images form the file you want to prepare for the iLiad. How you do it depends on the filetype. Just google for any extractor software which exports the raw (I repeat this, since it's really important: RAW) text-data. Some very good extractors conserve things like italization and stuff, but don't count on it.

2 - Import your data into a decent wordprocessor like OpenOffice Write or Microsoft Word and format the stuff like you want to have it. A tip at the sides: use A LOT of formatting templates and name them decently, so you can easily convert the stuff for future readers. Else you'll have to do the whole thing from scratch again.

3 - Create your PDF with the correct template (12x15cm page and decent quality print with 16 colours) and voilá!

I'm sorry. I know you're groaning in front of your screen right now, but this is the only way to do a decent job, and there is simply no easy way to get there, if you want a truly first-class reading experience.

I have though a bit of good news for you, or to be more precise a glitter of hope at the horizon: OpenReader.
For those barbarians of you who have now question marks floating over thier heads (just kidding), OpenReader is a newly developed file format, which has specifically been developed to cover both printing AND reading, so it comes with all the sweetness of configurable imaging, reflowability and the such. And I heard rumors that they are developing a reader software for the iLiad.

So keep your fingers crossed and pray to the gods of e-reading.
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