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Originally Posted by Shohreh
Thanks for the tip.
As expected, the filesize is much bigger (6x).
FWIW, my e-reader offers a few settings when reading PDFs, one of them being a "Reflow text" option: The issue I had (some pages, with basic text, being a bit messy) occurs when I enable this option.
OTOH, with the "bitmapped file" (-mode fw -ls- -n-):
"Reflow text" enabled: The layout has even more issues than the native PDF (without -n-)
"Reflow text" disabled: Better, although I'll need to add a bit more margins because they're too close from the edge.
I'm surprised bitmaps can be reflowed at all, since they're just pictures, unlike native PDFs.
Out of curiosity, why does this layout issue occurs with some pages in native PDF, with pages that only contain text? I would have expected this issue with more complicated layout (tables, insets, etc.)
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You’d have to ask tech support for your e-reader why those issues come up, but like you said, it has to do with enabling the reflow text option. As you said, Sumatra shows the file okay, so it’s an issue with the PDF display software in your reader. I’m surprised if your reader is trying to modify a bitmapped page, but it’s possible—especially if it uses some fork of KOReader or Duokan. KOReader reflow actually uses code from k2pdfopt (ha ha).
You can increase the output margins with the -om command-line option, e.g. -om 0.2 will add 0.2 inches of padding around the output pages.