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Originally Posted by EricQ
Any tips to get the text and images perfectly (well, almost perfectly) displayed on my PRS-505? I've noticed a lot of good philosophy classics in the e-book library on the site with images and text that formats properly when you zoom in. I just can't seem to replicate that kind of formatting.
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There's no simple & easy answers; PDFs aren't made to convert from, nor for easy reflow of the content--they're designed as ready-for-print, and all other uses have less support.
Potential workarounds include:
Convert the PDF to a Word or HTML doc (there's free software to do this online, or else send it to a gmail account, open as HTML, and save that file); use Calibre or other ebook software to convert *that* into something readable.
Use Acrobat Pro to add accessibility tags to the PDFs; this sometimes fixes the line-wrap problems when reflowing the text to a larger size. (Not always, though; a lot depends on what software was used to create the PDF in the first place.)
Sometimes, just cropping out the whitespace around the edges makes the remainder small enough to read semi-comfortably, especially by using landscape view on the PRS.
I hope you find something that works for you. Getting textbooks to view properly on ebook readers is one of the biggest issues for ebooks right now... don't you feel lucky to be involved in a cutting edge industry?
