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Originally Posted by kidblue
It would look funny, but it would retain formatting, which I would prefer. I'm trying to read screenplays, in which dialogue is center-justified but description and scene-headings are normal, left-justified. I'd like to "squeeze" the page to the width of my Kindle, even if it stretches, because the dialogue really wouldn't affected. This making any sense?
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I know how to do that with the
pdfpages package for pdflatex; some samples are attached. This might be kind of involved for someone who doesn't already know LaTeX, and quite a lot of software to install for so simple a task if this is all you were using it for. If you know what you're doing, it could be scripted, though.
So, see the samples. Basically, I created stretch.pdf by creating a TeX document with the following code:
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-,width=3in,height=6in,fitpaper]{normal.pdf}
\end{document}
Put it in the same folder as normal.pdf and ran pdflatex on the code.
Obviously you would need to change the width and height to the dimensions of the Kindle screen, which I don't know offhand.
A lot of tweaking would have to be done to ensure that things like metadata were preserved.
It might also be possible to do something like this with Inkscape or Ghostscript, but again, probably not in a user-friendly, straightforward way. If you really wanted to discuss it further, however, let's create a new thread on the idea, and not hijack the BRISS thread. (I wouldn't recommend adding this feature to BRISS...)