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Originally Posted by wesker

Hello all,

I own a PRS-505. I've been searching on google and this forum looking for a simple process and/or software that easily formats PDF (or coverts them to another file format prior to cleaning up the layout) so I can easily read them on the PRS-505.

I know there's something called Savory that does this on the Kindle (or so I've read online). I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction or share what they've been doing. FYI, I am on a Mac running Snow Leopard.

I'm sick of PDF files with half pages and overall bad formatting.

Thank you for your time.

I can't help you with converting PDFs to another format. However, as far as formatting documents for your Sony Reader, OpenOffice.org (a free-open source office suite) will save documents as PDFs and it's very easy to format them for the Sony Reader.

To format a document for the Sony Reader, I open the document in OpenOffice.org, set the page size to 3.5" by 4.75" / 8.9 cm by 12.1 cm (the same size as my reader's screen), format my ebook, save it, and then export it to PDF.

One advantage the OpenOffice.org offers when formatting ebooks is that when I do a page preview the document looks on my screen exactly as it will look on my reader. This includes fonts, line spacing, line breaks and page breaks. This allows me to identify and correct any formatting problems in my ebooks.

I hope that helps.