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Old 09-14-2006, 09:08 AM   #1
design256
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Ipswich, UK
Device: Irex Iliad
Formatting my newspaper

My local newspaper allows me to by a PDF edition. However, in its native form (designed for A3) it is impossible to read on the Iliad.

I have tried Ali's perl script to split and rotate it, but, while the resultant PDF is readable, it is nearly ten times the size of the original (9MB from 900KB for two pages!!) and the Iliad takes stupid amounts of time to load the pages - nearly 20 minutes in one case...


Does anybody have any ideas how I can read my newspaper on my Iliad without having the time to make and drink a coffee between each page, and without needing a microscope?

If you'd like to play, the original pdf is on: http://cjx.com/paper1.pdf

The version formatted by Ali's script is on: http://cjx.com/paper1_iliad.pdf
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