Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladekk
Because
1)Reader is very slow at the end of book when pdf have more than 200-400 pages.
2)Pdftolrf makes letters look better.
|
Neither of which statements are true.
I am working on a Bible project that will result in a file that has presently 5,353 pages and the page change at 5,000 page level is not different than that at the 30 page level, nor are either of the page changes observably different than the page changes on a test file containing only 30 pages. Nor is the jump from page 4954 to page 22 different from the jump from page 22 to page 65.
The appearance of the font is largely dependent on carefully choosing a font that displays well on the Sony reader. A suitable font would be one which has somewhat thicker than normal strokes, try using semibold fonts or bold fonts which appear to be lighter than the typical bold font. Also try to avoid fonts which have a huge disparity between the weight of the various strokes. A good place to begin experimenting is to use a semibold sans serif font, you will get a good idea of what is possible.
Finally you need to carefully select your page size - as this will be the final control on your absolute font size. And always compose your document with a view to the fact that it is going to be displayed on a device whose screen has a display ratio of 3::4 Portrait orientation.
I have included a file of 6 pages extracted from my Bible Project. The Header font (the one that appears in the Book Titles only) Copperplate Gothic BT Bold at 26.0pt. All of the remaining text is set from a subset of the Optane Compact family consisting of Optane Compact Bold and Optane Compact Bold Italic. on the first page of the sample file the Title and Chapter are set at 26.0 pt. The verse # are set at 4.0.pt and the body text is set at 7.0 pt italic. On page 2 the verse # are again 4.0pt and the body text is 7.0pt normal. On pages3 & 4 the verse # are 3.0pt and the body text is in 6.0pt. Finally on page 6 the Book name is again in 26.0pt Copperplate Gothic BT bold, the Chapter # is 26 pt Optane compact normal bold, the verse # are set in 4.0 Optane compact bold normal and the body text is set in 7.0pt Optane comact normal bold.
The pages were set on a page which is 4.05in X 6.20in with margins Top 0.1in; bottom 6.2in; left 0.1in right 0.1in. I used Adobe Acrobat Professional. And it suspect that may be a critcal choice. If you used the Microsoft PDF creator and is as slovenly in producing PDF files as the Microsoft HTML generator is in generating HTML then I can easily believe that the page swap times become and issue in large files but I never would have thought files of only 200 page would be a problem.
Again I repeat if choose your font carefully, you appropriately size your fonts and the virtual page size you use, and you generate pristine pdf files the result can be quite acceptable in every respect.