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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
I use Microsoft Word to format my books and then convert it into PDF. It doesn't take very long at all. I set the Word pages and margins to match that of my Sony Reader (which I set up using settings described on Sony's website). It's then pretty simple to scroll through Word and rearrange and rescale pictures and reformat any text that needs changing (though it typically doesn't). With Acrobat Pro, you have a PDF print driver (you might be able to find one without even having to get Acrobat Pro), so you just select Adobe Acrobat as your printer and it "prints" the book into a PDF doc. Therefore all formatting remains exactly as you had it. Personally, I love it. I needn't worry at all how it will look on my Reader.
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If you do have Acrobat Pro, then there is an extension that installed itself directly into Word. You should find it in the menu bar. I used to have that when I installed the trial version. It is much simpler this way. I used to output my PDFs directly from Word.
I asked because I do all my books with Book Designer. To do a PDF, it's just a question of dragging a PDF file directly in BD and applying my favorite formating. It does beautiful PRS 500 renditions.
What I want to know is the time difference between that and an Acrobat size reformat.