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Originally Posted by bpugliese
- croping the margins of the .pdf to fit Kindle screen better = looked promissor in the beginning but ended up as a failure 'cause I wasn't able to turn the pdf pages into a resolution kindle wouldn't have to 'scale' them. Without that, it takes a lot of time to turn pages beacuse of the poor rendering speed in image heavy .pdfs
So far, the 3rd option was the one I think that can be tweaked in a way that will work (i.e. maybe literally 'cutting' each page into separate and sequencial images so i can easily read in portrait mode) I tried with PDFRead (found here in the forums) but it leaves too much blank spaces.
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Try
PDF Scissors, described
here.
Click Start, wait for the pages to load, one on top of the other so you can see what to crop. Select and crop about 1/2 a page of text. Duplicate that rectangle (copy-paste), and drag the second rectangle down to the lower half. Save.
You can do thirds as well, I assume (the rectangles are numbered, but so far I've only tried halves). If you don't get half on your first try, just delete the second rectangle, select the pointer tool, and drag the lower edge of the first rectangle up or down as needed, and repeat.
The Kindle World blog article also mentions BRISS, but I haven't tried that. Maybe I'll try it for even/odd page margin differences if I really need to squeeze every last margin out of a PDF, or if two-column results aren't good (I haven't tested two-column yet). But I've been very pleased so far using PDF Scissors.