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curstpriest · 01-13-2011, 05:47 AM

@ OP: DTP? Don't know what that is...
I'm assuming you mean this: you made a book with japanese characters and put it in a .mobi, but the kindle can't display it properly, you probably just see a ton of squares or ? marks.

If the characters won't show up on kindle in .mobi package, just package them in a PDF and they will show up properly, don't use an image based PDF, unless you really have to. I don't know tons about PDF but I know it supports japanese text, and the kindle should be able to display that.

Also use a really small paper size or it will look like crap on a K3, use something tiny like, 3x4 inches with size 10-12 font. You can try changing stuff from there. Other people may know more about font sizes/paper sizes for K3, I don't because I don't have one.

If you MUST have a PDF as a solid IMAGE, you can easily convert your document into an image like so:

Get a program that installs a PDF printer driver such as:
Acrobat 9 Pro (costs alot, gives you print to "Adobe PDF")
PDFcreator (free, gives you print to "PDF Creator")

Open your document in Acrobat 9 - go to print - select the print to PDF driver - chose paper size by PDF size (shouldn't be letter/a4) - then go to advanced, and select "PRINT AS IMAGE"

Then go to print, and it should ask you to save a file, or pop up a configuration dialoge.. Make sure the image quality settings are acceptable (you don't want some low quality crap, but you don't need something over the top wasting space. If you are smart you can pick a reasonable compression to make the file-size small and loss-less.

@ DreamWriter: Anyways, using a scanner/working with jpegs? Also makes no sense, if you are using any photo/image editing software that is worth anything (i'm assuming you arn't using MS PAINT) - get photoshop or one of the free versions packaged with software that is more limited, if you don't have that, get GIMP (it's free). GIF images should resize fine, but you may have some trouble with filters/some operations, so just switch it from indexed color mode to RGB and you are good to do whatever you want with it.

01-13-2011, 05:47 AM	#4
curstpriest Confused Posts: 402 Karma: 5538 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: Kindle DXG	@ OP: DTP? Don't know what that is... I'm assuming you mean this: you made a book with japanese characters and put it in a .mobi, but the kindle can't display it properly, you probably just see a ton of squares or ? marks. If the characters won't show up on kindle in .mobi package, just package them in a PDF and they will show up properly, don't use an image based PDF, unless you really have to. I don't know tons about PDF but I know it supports japanese text, and the kindle should be able to display that. Also use a really small paper size or it will look like crap on a K3, use something tiny like, 3x4 inches with size 10-12 font. You can try changing stuff from there. Other people may know more about font sizes/paper sizes for K3, I don't because I don't have one. If you MUST have a PDF as a solid IMAGE, you can easily convert your document into an image like so: Get a program that installs a PDF printer driver such as: Acrobat 9 Pro (costs alot, gives you print to "Adobe PDF") PDFcreator (free, gives you print to "PDF Creator") Open your document in Acrobat 9 - go to print - select the print to PDF driver - chose paper size by PDF size (shouldn't be letter/a4) - then go to advanced, and select "PRINT AS IMAGE" Then go to print, and it should ask you to save a file, or pop up a configuration dialoge.. Make sure the image quality settings are acceptable (you don't want some low quality crap, but you don't need something over the top wasting space. If you are smart you can pick a reasonable compression to make the file-size small and loss-less. @ DreamWriter: Anyways, using a scanner/working with jpegs? Also makes no sense, if you are using any photo/image editing software that is worth anything (i'm assuming you arn't using MS PAINT) - get photoshop or one of the free versions packaged with software that is more limited, if you don't have that, get GIMP (it's free). GIF images should resize fine, but you may have some trouble with filters/some operations, so just switch it from indexed color mode to RGB and you are good to do whatever you want with it. Last edited by curstpriest; 01-13-2011 at 06:05 AM.