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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Sorry for asking very basic questions, but I didn't experiment with PDFs yet:
Let's assume, the "original" document is DIN A4, does have 25 lines, on average 8 words per line and on average 150 letters per line.
What could I do with this document?
a.) I could stick to it, read it in landscape = basically split it in 2 portions.
That's workable, at least the original layout remains intact.
But it's not very convenient.
b.) I could zoom "fit to page" (or width). Probably you can't read the text anymore.
On iRex iLiad you could zoom into the area on interest. This would be fine to check a formula, a graph or a single sentence. But you can't read an entire document of course.
c.) You could re-format the file.
What does this mean?
Does this mean, instead of 8 words per line in DIN A4, it would be 5 words for example in DIN A5?
Wouldn't this basically be the same as reflowing the text?
What about formulas and graphs?
What about columns?
(Of course, you could DTP the whole document).
--->Does switching the PDF driver to DIN A5 output format really work?
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I just happened to notice this topic on the main page and came to check it out. (wow at the amount you spend monthly: couple of years ago, €300 was my monthly paycheck)
As far as .pdf is concerned, I recently ran into the trouble of displaying a textbook on my 6" device. As per advice of one of the members here, I created a Word 2007 template for my .pdfs: I set the size of paper at 3.47# width and 4.54 height, margins .15" all around (though if you want to have a header and footer with information on author, title and page number, it would be good to increase the top and bottom margins). Font size is 10. This gives me a clear, readable .pdf. the images mostly fit on half a page, or if they're larger, one page without losing any readability. I save it as .pdf, and Word creates bookmarks for me. I'm very happy with my .pdf documents.