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Old 02-26-2009, 08:22 AM   #185
nrapallo
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Originally Posted by CheriePie View Post
Luving ♥ my Kindle 2. Though I still haven't been able to get the particular PDF eBook I've been trying to convert into a readable format that I'm comfortable with.

I couldn't get into the landscape way of reading it... my hands all weren't in the right place for paging and all, and sometimes it split the page mid line, so that actual words were cut in half, so obviously not an option I wanted to continue to pursue.

So working in portrait mode, I tried various settings of widening the vertical size to 600 which didn't seem to make much difference. The only thing that did help somewhat is changing the cropping value from 2 to 1. Because if I can get rid of the margins all along the sides of this thing, then it might be good. But I couldn't go less than 1, so it's still got a good 1" margin all around the text, making the overall text size too small to be comfortably read.

So any suggestions on how to get it so that all the white space on the sides is kaput? Since the screen resolution of the Kindle 2 is 800 x 600 (wide), should I be plugging in these parameters for the size. (I actually didn't notice much difference from when I did that versus leaving them at their default for the prc-mobi-p profile.
It's best to use landscape mode for conversions of PDF to small screen ebook readers. Make sure you try using the 'mobi-prc' Profile, as the other profile 'mobi-prc-p' is for portrait mode. I usually set the Layout mode to 'landscape-half' which ensures at most two page flips for each pdf page. You may want to try 'landscape-third' if there remains too much white space/margins.

The problem with cropping is that it stops at the first major black text/page number/spot on the pdf page. Then the program takes that cropped image and splits it where the Layout mode indicates. The resulting images may/will have text cut in the middle, but there is a bit of overlapping to each image so you don't really loose any lines of text.

Experiement on a few pages only, like Pages 7 to 8, exactly like I showed in this post. Enter the same options and then when it works for a few pages, convert the entire pdf ebook.

If you want me to try to convert it, post it here, if you can, or email me at nrapallo [at] yahoo.ca .

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