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Old 11-05-2010, 06:27 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by maciek_j View Post
Just to make sure: I understand that either PDF on K3 screen fills up the whole screen (which makes it tiny) or after enlarging in has to be scrolled from left to right and back, which makes it very inconvenient to read, right?
That's correct.

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Originally Posted by maciek_j View Post
Secondly: what is the difference between ‘genuine’ mobi, and mobi obtained from pdf? As I understand: they are both convenient to read on K3 (they reflow), but one converted from PDF might loose tables and figures, right? Anything else?
I am not an expert on this, I have mostly tried converting PDFs of old pulp stories from a old pulp site that has them presented in their original magazine format.

Or in other words, the PDFs are in two columns of text (along with illustrations).

At least for me, when I try to use Calibre, it sort of just pushes the two columns of text together, making it unreadable.

On the other hand, Mobipocket Creator Publisher Edition (which is free from www.mobipocket.com) will do a pretty decent job of separating the columns, but you still lose some of the formatting.

It's readable, but it's not as nice looking as a mobi made from a plain text file, for instance, where it will look just like a novel.

But with one made from a pdf, you you might
have a
dropped line like this.

O
r maybe something like that.

Really, since all the software is free, try it yourself and see the results. Download the Mobipocket Creator

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...ilsCreator.asp

And then Kindle PC (or the Kindle Emulator) from Amazon (I don't have the page for that handy)
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