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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I adore PDFs... as stable, print-ready or single-purpose-view formats. I'm still not used to reading them on a screen. I've been converting to PDF for my new Sony PRS, but that's because Calibre confuses me (and seems to have problems with some pictures) and line breaks for poetry and such get all wonky with the RTFs, and PDFs I can control, and am comfortable adding bookmarks to.
I can make 3.5x4.8 (roughly) pdfs for my Reader. And letter-sized PDFs for print. And landscape-letter, 2-column, 15-pt text with 1/4" margins and keep-lines-together paragraphs for reading on screen. And so on. I do think it's silly to expect everyone to be content with a single format of PDF, and what works well for print is not the best layout for the screen.
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I created a community for the ebook library and I've been trying to get some how-to guides written up and I have a Calibre guide with pictures. Not sure how much it would help but here is the link just in case.
http://community.livejournal.com/fan...tml?style=mine
I think the big problem is RTF does not convert well in Calibre, I have to convert the RTF to HTML (if the file has images add the new HTML plus Images into a zip file, load into Calibre and then hit convert)
I also have some information on how I've been creating PDFs..but lately I've kind of given up on that format in favor of LRF. I had troubles with the footer margin it was always too big and I tried everything to get the margins like I have the LRF file margins but it just wasn't working.