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Originally Posted by Jellby
Doesn't your reader have a zoom function that enlarge the PDF as you view it?
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I don't think the 300 has zoom; like the 505, it has reflow, which only works if the original is text-and-images instead of scans, and even then is prone to doing whacked things with the formatting.
I have lots of PDFs of gaming books; they're not great on the ebook reader. I have a 505, which can read letter-sized pages if I squint, and read them a little better (less squinting) if I switch the orientation, but it's still a pain.
Answer to OP: No, there's no nice simple "make this PDF bigger/chop into smaller pieces for ebook reader viewing" answer. There's a handful of programs that can help--one that crops out the whitespace on the edges, one that separates the columns into their own pages (and possibly cuts them in half as well). They're limited, but better than trying to read letter-sized PDFs as-is on a 5" screen.
I don't know the details because I'm fluent in PDF conversion and if I want it formatted for my Reader, I'll OCR if necessary, convert to Word, reformat entirely, and pick an ebook type that works for it.
I hope someone will be along soon to provide links to the PDF-fixing programs.