Thread: I'm an Old Geek
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Old 04-21-2008, 05:18 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Cathbad View Post
I am 65 years old. I was a couch potato before the term was invented, a nerd/geek before those terms were invented and have been in IT for 40 years.

The Kindle is the first ebook reader I have bought and I like it so far.
I do have a problem and I hope someone here has solved it.
If I send a small PDF to my Kindle via Amazon the conversion is decent.
If I send any PDF larger than 20 megs it fails because gmail has that limit.
I have used Mobipocket creator to convert it to PRC. I then copied it to the Kindle. But the font size is hopeless, and the Font sizing doesn't work for .prc files.
Does anyone know the secret?
I have a lot of big fat programming books for which I also have the PDF. I have an 8GB card in the Kindle. I could carry a small programming library with me if I could convert the PDFs correctly.

I tried converting a pdf with the mobipocket creator and editing the font size with html and css. When I built the pdf file, the font size was normal - so it didn't work.

What if you change the file extension of your prc file to azw? I've read that azw is just mobi with a different file extension. If it works, then the kindle's font size options should work.
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