[guineapiguser]

Hey cacapee,

I'd just like to comment that your PDF to LRF converter is the best converter I've found to convert PDFs to LRF period. The main advantage I've found is a) how your program automatically bolds the text so that stuff is more readable on the Reader's screen (regularly sending PDF files have fonts which are thin and hard to make out) b) the simple to use Windows interface where I can just drag a bunch of PDF files in a folder and leave it processing and have well formatted LRF files waiting for me to transfer.

However, I recently migrated to the Amazon Kindle (though I gave my dad the Sony PRS-505) and still use it, but I now have to reconvert several of my PDF files to be read on the Kindle. The advantage with the Kindle is that it can search through content, and so with text based PDFs it converts pretty well. However Amazon's PDF conversion for Text + Image mangles the PDF pretty badly, so what I usually do is keep a text version around for search, and a full imaged PDF around to for image references. I came up with a workflow documented below (I'll post a better detailed guide to the Kindle section soon).

PDF to Kindle Workflow:
The workflow I've come up with is this.
1) Use PDF2LRF to input the PDF and output to a .zip file filled with PNG files. (I have to use PDF2LRF in command line format to accomplish this).
2) Then use the program that jbenny posted (PNG2PDF) to generate a PDF file in commandline from the Zip files
3) Afterwards, I run Mobipocket Creator to import PDF file and output to .PRC format which is then readable with the Kindle.
Note: The advantage of this is I don't have to email the file to Amazon at all to get it converted and readable on kindle! (Since Gmail's 20 meg limit which I find quite limiting). And best of all the output is split nicely with high contrast, 2 pages/ landscape rotated which makes it as readable as on my Sony device compared to Amazon's default PDF conversion.

So in summary: PDF -> PDF2LRF -> PNG2PDF -> MobiPocket Creator -> Kindle.

One request I have is: Can you modify your PDF2LRF program for Windows with a flag so that it default outputs to a ZIP file filled with PNG files instead of defaulting to only LRF? I can do this through command line, but I prefer the simplicity of batch drag and dropping multiple PDF files and having them batch converted which can currently be done with LRF files.

Note: any ideas to speed up/ automating this PDF -> Kindle reformatting would be appreciated.