[quebeckerin]

Hello, Ken,
When I first used OpenOffice to copy a file, I was just pasting Chinese stories I had got off the Internet using Mozilla Firefox--i.e. select text with mouse, click copy, open OpenOffice 3.2 to the "text document" page and paste. Then click "export to PDF". When asked, I chose 'lossless compression' from the menu. Later, just to check, I tried copying a Chinese file from Word 2003 into OpenOffice and saved it as a PDF file and that also worked well. I opened the document on my e-reader and it was fine. Since I only downloaded OpenOffice yesterday, I'm assuming I have the very latest version. Just to make clear, I was never importing PDF files into Open Office, I was exporting them. That's what my lucky, totally by chance, discovery was--that OpenOffice converts my Chinese files from Firefox or Word into a version of PDF that does not require you to change the margins or the page size. The Open Office version of PDF, for some strange reason, works just like an ePub file, with zoom function, reflow, etc. That's what I'm so pleased about. Actually, it will help me with English files as well--earlier I was trying to download some articles from technical journals in PDF format, and I had the same problem--either a page with tiny letters or words disappearing off the side of the page. Later, I'll test it out to see whether I can improve the look of those files, too. Maybe someone in this group knows more about PDF files and can clear up the mystery of why some PDF files work really well and some have problems. There must be more than one type.