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Old 07-14-2010, 12:37 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by abeaty View Post
First off thanks a lot of the review. I expect our reading curriculum would be similar.

When you say you "popped the file into Acrobat, trimmed the margins", what Acrobat product are you talking about and what option within it? Reader?

Can you re-save PDFs that have no DRM? How about ones that have DRM?

Thanks a lot.
The product is actually called Acrobat, made by Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/

There are several cropping programs, I just so happen to have a school license to Acrobat, so I decided to use that. When I trim the margins, I basically just trim it so that the margins span from text to text on the left and right hand sides. This means that when the Kindle zooms to fit horizontally, the text will be bigger.

If the PDFs have no DRM, you can easily resave and upload them with the cropped margins. If they do, I am not sure. You might be able to crack the DRM but thats a legal grey area. I am actually not sure if the Kindle can even read protected PDFs. I do not have any to test it with.
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