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Originally Posted by barium
Here's what seems to have worked: printing to a PDF file from Acrobat Pro to a PDF file on a smaller page size, and using the tile print feature to get Acrobat to split each page into smaller pieces. This has the same effect, essentially, as Sony's fit to width zoom option. Instead of using the zoom interface to scroll down, though, you can use the page advance feature, because the pages are in smaller pieces. May require Acrobat Pro:
1.) Crop using Briss (try to make every crop rectangle the same size);
2.) Create a new "Adobe PDF Page Size" in Acrobat; I used dimensions of 81mm by 105mm, based on a hand measurement of the device's screen (there are probably better choices you can make here)
3.) Print the PDF to a PDF file in Acrobat, choosing the following page handling options:
Page scaling: tile all pages
Tile scale: ?? you may need to play around with this (I think especially if you use different crop rectangle sizes in step 1); this setting determines how many pieces each page gets cut into. Bigger pages may get cut into 4 tiles instead of two, which screws everything up. I ended up using 73% for my file.
Drawbacks: text quality declines a fair bit; takes FOREVER (I've already logged a few hours and don't have it down yet); not sure what numbers to use for tile scale and page size.
Please note that I have very little experience with Acrobat and probably mixed up several concepts and terms. If you try to follow these instructions, expect to be very frustrated along the way.
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One program you can try is OpenOffice.org. Its a free open-source office suite, and it is able to save its documents as PDFs. I've been using it for quite a while and I've been very pleased with the results. Unlike other formats, I have complete formatting control over my documents when formatting them, and this carries over to the PDFs I create.
As far as making PDFs for your ereader, all you have to do is make the page size the same as your ereader's screen. From that point, you format the document as if you were going to print it. When you do a page preview, or you edit the document in the Print Layout view, you can see exactly what the PDF ebook will look like on your ereader. If you set the page size the same as the ereader's screen, the size of all items should be real size (as an example, a 12-point font will appear as that size) on your ereader.
When you have the ebook formatted the way you want, save it as an OpenDocument Writer file (OpenOffice.org's default format) and then export it to PDF. It will make an ebook perfectly formatted for your ereader. If you see something that needs to be changed, just open the OpenDocument Writer file, edit it, and re-export it to PDF.
As I said above, I've been very pleased with the results when generating PDFs this way. The main disadvantage I've found is that the ebook is designed for my ereader's default (small) size, it doesn't look as good at the larger sizes. Due to this, I set the size of everything at my preferred size when I format the ebook, rather than trying to increase it on my ereader.