Thread: Scaling down PDF to work on BeBook
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Old 08-07-2009, 12:01 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by spaze View Post
I'm not sure I understand all of this, but I read that A4 sized PDF files look terrible on BeBook because the PDF must me scaled so much by BeBook software. When you open this PDF i provided with the computer, sure it looks the same, but if you investigate the dimensions you will see the document itself is now 90x120mm in size instead of A4.
So if you print it out the new version will be much smaller, and this small size is how both the original and the new version will look on the BeBook in standard portrait view.

One way to see a similar effect on your PC is to make the PDF reader window very small (about 90mmx120mm) and then select "shrink to fit". Both the original and the new version will then look the same in the small window. This is what the BeBook PDF software will do for you. There is also be a landscape mode and "reflow" modes which won't help for images. I'll make some screenshots of your PDF on my EZ Reader (Hanlin V3) this evening. I am using the latest mobile Adobe Digital Editions firmware.
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