[haguilar]

yep, tried that.

But perhaps I wasn't using the right settings. I did at one point attempt to use ghostscript (did you use this? I'm not even really sure what it does to be honest) but after installation I kept getting a bunch of error dialog boxes relating to ghostscript being displayed after every page that was processed.

Can you tell me which boxes you check/uncheck when using this tool for your papers? portrait or landscape? (EDIT - after a little more playing with it, I can see landscape could be promising but optimally I'd like to see it in portrait mode for easier reading).

The one thing I could not figure out is how to remove some intervening pages that are generated when converting PDFs that have both 2 column formatting and one column formatting on the same page (so for example, the top half of a page could be the title/author/university/abstract information and it spans the entire page horizontally, while the bottom of the page begins in the 'usual' two column format with the introduction to the paper. - I found in this situation what the PDFLRF tool does is it begins chopping up the PDF into 'quarters' but it doesn't quite get the order of things right, so there are some intervening pages which make no sense - a white page or a page containing part of the title/author info inserted between pages containing the first/second columns of the actual text of the paper.)

I guess I'm just looking for the optimal settings so I can convert a large number of PDFs, load them onto my 505 and read them when I get a chance without having to individually convert/optimze settings (maybe that's asking for too much, I don't know, this is my first reader).

H