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Originally Posted by Snuffi
The crashes when reading PDFs happen pretty regularly for me. Generally, I can say that the larger the file and the more graphics it includes the more likely it is to crash. There have been exceptions, though, I also had crashes with rather small files.
I have had some moderate success when converting PDFs to prc with Mobipocket creator but that solution has two big shortcomings:
1) Some PDFs I couldnt convert -> Creator would create an empty file even though no error occurred (reproducible)
2) All Graphics which contain text (like screenshots) are way too small after the conversion but as it is no longer a PDF there is no zooming or panning. This is not the fault of the software, of course, and the result was to be expected. Nonetheless it makes converted of PDFs in those cases practically unusable.
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Mobipocket Creator does seem to have an issue with some PDFs; I get 'Import failed!' when I try to import them. I haven't as yet figured out what they have in common.
As far as the small pictures are concerned, you might want to try the 'Embed JPG' (or something like that; I'm not at my PC right now) option in Creator, or the '--jpeg' option of Mobigen. When you do that, it will use JPEG images in the built book, and not convert them to GIF first. As JPEG is (most of the time anyway) more compact than GIF, for a given picture file size the resolution can be higher.
Regards,
Marco.