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barium · 02-03-2011, 02:59 AM

Does anyone know what dimensions I can enter in the Adobe Acrobat page layout settings to get a document that's the same size as the PRS-350 screen?

I've been trying to get some of my PDFs to display properly on the PRS-350. They're scanned images, and my OCR attempts have produced bad results, so PDF reflow is useless.

I thought cropping the files might help. BRISS, an app posted elsewhere on this site, makes it easy to crop white spaces in PDF files. After cropping, the fonts are a bit bigger, but still not good enough.

Fit-to-width in landscape mode makes the text perfectly readable in the cropped files. Unfortunately, scrolling each page vertically with fit-to-width zoom enabled is a major pain (the zoom interface has to be up, and you have to use these slow moving arrow keys). Vertical scrolling in regular landscape mode is pretty painless, though - I can live with the overlap.

I'm thinking if I print my PDFs to new PDFs with a paper size that's the same size as the PRS-350 screen, I may end up with a document that will fit the width of the screen in landscape mode by default. In that case, I'll be able to use Sony's built-in automatic page-switcher, which works for portrait PDFs used in landscape mode.

02-03-2011, 02:59 AM	#1
barium Connoisseur Posts: 96 Karma: 20572 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: None	Dimensions of PRS-350 Screen for PDF Formatting? Does anyone know what dimensions I can enter in the Adobe Acrobat page layout settings to get a document that's the same size as the PRS-350 screen? I've been trying to get some of my PDFs to display properly on the PRS-350. They're scanned images, and my OCR attempts have produced bad results, so PDF reflow is useless. I thought cropping the files might help. BRISS, an app posted elsewhere on this site, makes it easy to crop white spaces in PDF files. After cropping, the fonts are a bit bigger, but still not good enough. Fit-to-width in landscape mode makes the text perfectly readable in the cropped files. Unfortunately, scrolling each page vertically with fit-to-width zoom enabled is a major pain (the zoom interface has to be up, and you have to use these slow moving arrow keys). Vertical scrolling in regular landscape mode is pretty painless, though - I can live with the overlap. I'm thinking if I print my PDFs to new PDFs with a paper size that's the same size as the PRS-350 screen, I may end up with a document that will fit the width of the screen in landscape mode by default. In that case, I'll be able to use Sony's built-in automatic page-switcher, which works for portrait PDFs used in landscape mode.