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gingerninja · 01-03-2009, 06:47 AM

I've further refined the problem - most PDF metadata editors cause chaos on a good portion of my files when they are v1.6. If I have Acrobat Pro downgrade the PDF to v1.4 (simple old format whcih removes more complex compression, but can be made ebook size friendly with a simple profile to do downsampling) than any PDF metadata tool (such as this one here) can edit it and the e-Reader no longer crashes. Interestingly, having a v1.6 PDF and not editing the metadata seems fine also. So, it looks like v1.4 is a little more stable on the reader or these tools are mangling something in the file - time for some file poking...

01-03-2009, 06:47 AM	#5
gingerninja Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: PRS 505A	Further refined I've further refined the problem - most PDF metadata editors cause chaos on a good portion of my files when they are v1.6. If I have Acrobat Pro downgrade the PDF to v1.4 (simple old format whcih removes more complex compression, but can be made ebook size friendly with a simple profile to do downsampling) than any PDF metadata tool (such as this one here) can edit it and the e-Reader no longer crashes. Interestingly, having a v1.6 PDF and not editing the metadata seems fine also. So, it looks like v1.4 is a little more stable on the reader or these tools are mangling something in the file - time for some file poking...