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Old 01-16-2011, 09:53 AM   #8
alanjay
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Thanks for all the feedback

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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
@alanjay,

I'm making an assumption here, which may be wrong, but if you're having difficulty reading the screenplay PDFs on your reader because of the excessive whitespace margins have you tried either of the following:

  1. Use Briss to visually crop unwanted margins from your PDF. The output is still a PDF but if the source had a TOC & metadata they should be retained in the output PDF. Briss is still under active development and the creator is very helpful.
Reading PDFs on a standard kindle is a real pain - too much white space and the fonts are too small for my eyes And if you manipulate things to be better then the whole process is less than ideal

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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
  1. Use a PDF to TXT utility which can retain multiple spaces. Then read the TXT on the reader. The usual loss of italics/bold styling which happens with PDF to TXT doesn't really apply with a screenplay in plain Courier throughout.
I'm searching for a good mac solution to this most things remove the white spaces so everything is left justified which means reading is less that obvious where dialog starts.

So if you have any good tips for Max PDF to TXT solutions please post the details - thanks.

Last edited by alanjay; 01-16-2011 at 02:45 PM.
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