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Old 01-02-2010, 03:18 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by MrEggsalad View Post
At least in my experience trying to convert a math book PDF with many unique characters and diagrams the conversion service did poorly. In fact, it even broke up plain text into multiple lines, which I am assuming because the characters are not standard ones. If the PDF was pretty much only text however, I would think the service would do fine.
you can try using PDFRead to convert the PDF into image files bounded by mobi

can you do me a favor and load these(PDF and PRC) on your kindle and take pictures of how they look? I want to see if converting using PDFRead and cropping the whitespace and rotating to landscape gives a readable version... I'm stuck between getting a Kindle 2 and Kindle DX

(eg sample PDF) http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/Downld.html

(eg sample prc file generated using PDFRead, pages 1-30, landscape-half)
http://www.mediafire.com/?zmmz2wynxnd
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