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Old 10-19-2010, 04:38 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by patilsaurabhr View Post
Yes, Windows 7.

The manual of PRS 950SC is of the aspect ratio to fit for the screen. Here is the manual.
They have added the links Contents and Index at bottom 1/5. It's nice to have these links tapped by hand and surfing like web.
Don't you think that when asking a stranger for help online, rather than giving them a PDF and asking them to search for information inside of it, you could just search for the information yourself? Anyway, it looks like the dimensions are 600x1024 pixels, which is a rather strange ratio of 75:128. (This is very close to 3:5, but not quite!) Anyway, it would be trivia to change the script to aim for that instead.

The problem is, the script won't run on Windows. There might be someone who knows how to change a bash script into a Windows/DOS or powershell batch file, but this one is too complicated for me, and I'm not going to install Windows to test on just for this purpose.

If this were really important to you, however, you could install a linux distribution and use that. (If you wanted to keep Windows untouched, you could install linux inside a virtual machine like VirtualBox or something.) But that's pretty extreme, unless you were curious about linux anyway. (Which I do encourage. I'll never go back to the dark days of using Windows.)

Another alternative would be to go back to my original advice and install pdfLaTeX; if you want to try it that way, I can try to help. I have a lot more experience with LaTeX than I do with ghostscript anyway.

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So , I thought it would be great for 950SC if we could add index of items we like at bottom part of page. Take a textbook as an example. In a chapter, the links below will be for topics in the chapter. And probably we could come up with a program/script that will convert normally bookmarked documents to such types by attachign extended page cut with links as bottom 5th of the page? That would be nice for those users. (Users with long 7" screen)
If you want to discuss something like that, open a different thread. It has nothing to do with squeezing/stretching a PDF.
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