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Old 08-10-2011, 12:05 AM   #6
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The reason why you can't find an easy solution is because there isn't one, unfortunately.

Easy solutions (that might not work well).

1. The easiest one is to put your PDF in landscape mode on your Kindle, possibly after clipping it with the Briss program.

2. Or, you can email the document to Amazon for conversion, but results might be mixed.

3. You can use Calibre to convert it (I find the results for this to be unsatisfactory)

4. Use a program like k2pdf or PDFmasher.
(Caveat: k2pdf creates excess margins for some PDF documents, though it works fine with others. I haven't used PDFmasher yet because it's so complicated I don't understand how to use it) These will probably give you the best results, but they will require a lot of fiddling.

The more complex the PDF, the more difficult the conversion will be. Footnotes, page numbers, headers, all of these will make the conversion worse.
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