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Old 01-01-2009, 01:27 PM   #1
millerjpmd
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Device: Sony PRS-505
Conversion of Journal Article PDF

I am new to this forum and I want to thank everyone who has contributed. In the last there days I haved learned more about working with eBooks, PRS-505 and Calibre then I thought possible.

My question revolves around converting a 2 columned article downloaded as a PDF. The problem is that the articles have text, tables and images in some combination. They also include headers and footers.

The small zoom setting shows the whole page but when zoomed issues can occur.

The text only files do pretty well and I have had better results just using calibre than messing with the article using demo versions of deskUNPDF or Textlightening.

The image containing files are readable. I have learned to ignore the smaller font text and can read the article. Tables and formulas are difficult. Sometimes formulas are are one line and for others they are on separate lines.

I realize that this may be beyond what this reader is designed to do but I found the 505 so much easier to read than the 700 (with its pan and zoom abilities) that I chose the 505.

If anyone has any ideas or can recommend things I can read about to help with these issues I would appreciate it. I am attaching a sample article that demonstrates some of these issues.

Thanks, JPM
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