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Old 12-16-2006, 08:46 PM   #35
mosh
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Ends and Means

To summarise what I am trying to accomplish:

1st approach:

Taking regular 8.5x11in PDF files and resizing the pages to 5.24x6.69in (377x482points) for the reader using multivalent tools. Then by using the PDcrop tool to trim the excess white space around the page edges. The result is nearly acceptable PDF file display on my reader.

One issue that I still encounter is the anti-aliasing font thinning as described earlier on this forum.

2nd approach:

The PDFrastafarian tool attempts to "raster" the PDF pages to PNG and then compile them to an "image" LRF (BBeB) format.

3rd approach:

PDF text extraction using, for example, multivalent tools, or some other utility and converting the results to RTF for display on the reader.

4th approach:

Performing PDF text extraction, again, and then converting the text to LRF (BBeb) format.
java -cp multi.jar tool.doc.ExtractText input.pdf >output.txt

Are there any other methods or approaches that I have neglected to mention?

Mosh

Last edited by mosh; 12-16-2006 at 09:19 PM. Reason: update
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