Thread: k2pdfopt: optimizes PDFs for viewing on e-readers
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Old 05-06-2020, 11:27 PM   #1788
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Originally Posted by Shohreh View Post
Sorry: It's because I started this journey with Calibre to turn PDF into EPUB. After seeing that my e-reader could actually read PDF rather well except complicated layouts such as tables, I figured I could just turn those pages into bitmaps and generate an hybrid PDF (text/bitmaps).

And then it dawned on me that k2pdfopt made all this useless since it can massage the whole file.

As for the particular PDF I sent: It looks perfect on the computer (SumatraPDF), but on my 6 inch e-reader (768x1024, 212 DPI), some pages are a bit messy although, strangely enough, those only contain only text, in one column.

I used the command above:
Code:
k2pdfopt -mode fw -ls- twilight.pdf
Why does it occur, and what could I try?

https://postimg.cc/gallery/YLbzKXP
Try turning off native mode so that you get bitmapped output. Your e-reader shouldn't be able to mess that up:

k2pdfopt -mode fw -ls- -n- twilight.pdf
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