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mvoosten · 11-30-2007, 04:12 AM

Hi,

After struggling with various formats on my Hanlin V3 and especially with PDF files, I decided to give PDFRead a try.
While there is no profile for the Hanlin V3 I used the Sony 500-l profile and used the resulting png images in the temp folder to see how the result would be....
WOW.. How usefull!!! this makes PDF files previously impossible to read on a small screen a bless.
However... since the output of PDF read is limited to some closed formats not supported by the Hanlin V3 I took a look at some alternatives.
using the loose PNG files only is not an option as a lot of reference PDF's I use output too much files, and I like having a good overview of my folders

So I decided to take a look at some PNG to PDF converters. I found one working quite well, but for bigger files with hundreds of PNG images the resulting PDF gets corrupt. However, the smaller ones I did manage to creates give me good hope.

Now, my question is.. since PDFRead converts from PDF and DJVU to PNG (and does a very good job in this!), will it be possible to get the option in to recreate the PNG files to PDF and/or DJVU? This way we have a true PDFRead program that converts PDF's to a format readible by Ebook readers with the advantage that PDF en DJVU files are read by a lot more readers then just the ones in the profile making the PDFRead program truely generic and usefull (at least for me

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11-30-2007, 04:12 AM	#84
mvoosten Zealot Posts: 128 Karma: 41 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Hanlin V3	Hi, After struggling with various formats on my Hanlin V3 and especially with PDF files, I decided to give PDFRead a try. While there is no profile for the Hanlin V3 I used the Sony 500-l profile and used the resulting png images in the temp folder to see how the result would be.... WOW.. How usefull!!! this makes PDF files previously impossible to read on a small screen a bless. However... since the output of PDF read is limited to some closed formats not supported by the Hanlin V3 I took a look at some alternatives. using the loose PNG files only is not an option as a lot of reference PDF's I use output too much files, and I like having a good overview of my folders So I decided to take a look at some PNG to PDF converters. I found one working quite well, but for bigger files with hundreds of PNG images the resulting PDF gets corrupt. However, the smaller ones I did manage to creates give me good hope. Now, my question is.. since PDFRead converts from PDF and DJVU to PNG (and does a very good job in this!), will it be possible to get the option in to recreate the PNG files to PDF and/or DJVU? This way we have a true PDFRead program that converts PDF's to a format readible by Ebook readers with the advantage that PDF en DJVU files are read by a lot more readers then just the ones in the profile making the PDFRead program truely generic and usefull (at least for me )