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Originally Posted by arnuschky
Hey,
I convert my epubs to pdf and read them on my Kindle 3. Quite happy with the result; proper hyphenation etc makes it a much more pleasant read than the reflowed stuff.
I have one problem though: the kindle is auto-cropping and centering pages. If pages have different length (i.e., chapter ends), the text shows up in the middle of the screen and not at the top. Additionally to this, font-size slightly changes across pages, and on some pages the last pixels of the last word of each line is not displayed.
Can I somehow prevent the kindle from cropping my pdfs?
Cheers,
Arnuschky
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Sure. If you add annotations to the page, you can establish your own cropping boundaries and prevent that behavior. On Mac OS X, the Preview app can handle both tasks. Adobe Acrobat obviously will too if you happen to have that.
What I have done (but am too lazy to keep doing) is draw horizontal lines at the top and bottom to establish the minimum height (approximating the cropped height the other pages which are filled with text). If there's Kindle is cropping too much whitespace from the sides as well, you can draw a box to establish cropping limits on all four sides. For extra credit, reduce the Opacity to 5% or even less (if the tool allows that) - that way they won't be visible on Kindle.
There are several free cropping tools (e.g. Briss is one I've used). It might be a nice enhancement if these could optionally add a box annotation at the cropping boundaries that you establish (with minimal opacity) to eliminate this problem with automatic cropping and give a more uniform appearance to the PDF when viewed on Kindle.