Thread: Acrobat Professional ==> Sony Reader
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Old 07-27-2009, 03:41 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
It's only easy for me because I've been working with Acrobat Pro for nearly ten years, since Acrobat 4.0. (There are features from Acro 4 that I still miss.)

Acrobat is not a simple program, and modifying things involves knowing what *can* be modified, and then finding out where they've hidden that option in the dropdown menus. It's a mess. They keep trying to make the basic reader options more obvious and somewhat more powerful, and the Pro options get more arcane and complicated with every version. Also, they move them around; they change what dropdowns some options are associated with.



Because that lets me set the appearance; the pages in the PDF are the same pages I see on the Reader. RTF files don't do that; they resize in unpredictable (to me) ways. (Also, the filesize tends to be much larger. And I believe RTFs don't show pictures, so I can't add a cover.) Converting to LRF involves more steps; I have to use software that I don't have handy on all of the computers I normally work on. I've got Calibre on my portable drive, but it's troublesome to run it.



"Middle of the book?" Or do you just mean the page headers from the original PDF? I crop those out, when I can; they are annoying.



The bookmarks in a PDF become the Contents listing in the Sony Reader. I believe you can also add links to the TOC page (if there is one) and use those, but links are a bit more hassle than bookmarks.



It is very complicated and can easily be confusing.

Can you describe what happens with the smaller print? I don't understand what you mean there.
I don't know how you do multiple quotes here either

Thanks for explaining why you do convert to doc. I read to convert to .rtf somewhere, probably Sony's instructions.

I believe when I setup the format size for the Sony Reader I hadn't changed any type size because I couldn't figure out how on the Adobe Acrobat Pro. So I transferred it to the Sony Reader and the print was smaller than the original book was. I really need to figure out how to change type without converting using Calibre to .lrf because that is where the headers get put in odd places because I do change to larger type.

I hope this makes sense.
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