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ardeegee · 02-18-2010, 01:15 PM

Thanks for the tips, but I still haven't found a satisfactory solution. I redid the individual pages that were a problem in that one document, but it looks like all the PDFs I've been created have been being reported as being what looks to be 72dpi (the typical figure used for "screen resolution") when they were scanned at 300dpi. Which explains why I was having a problem viewing the final PDFs on my Sony Reader-- it would look great (but small) on the full-page view but the text would be massively oversized when I reflow to medium font, and too big to show up at all at large font.

I don't want to redo all the PDFs, I don't want to throw away resolution-- all I want is to modify the PDF file so that it knows that those "72dpi" images are really 300dpi, therefore from pages around 6 inches across and not pages around 25 inches across like the PDF thinks that it is. I don't see any reason why that is something that could not be easily fixed-- change a couple of bits in the settings of the PDF (or at worst tell it to change a couple of bits on every page.) But it doesn't seem like Acrobat (or anything else?) is willing to do that simple fix.

02-18-2010, 01:15 PM	#3
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	Thanks for the tips, but I still haven't found a satisfactory solution. I redid the individual pages that were a problem in that one document, but it looks like all the PDFs I've been created have been being reported as being what looks to be 72dpi (the typical figure used for "screen resolution") when they were scanned at 300dpi. Which explains why I was having a problem viewing the final PDFs on my Sony Reader-- it would look great (but small) on the full-page view but the text would be massively oversized when I reflow to medium font, and too big to show up at all at large font. I don't want to redo all the PDFs, I don't want to throw away resolution-- all I want is to modify the PDF file so that it knows that those "72dpi" images are really 300dpi, therefore from pages around 6 inches across and not pages around 25 inches across like the PDF thinks that it is. I don't see any reason why that is something that could not be easily fixed-- change a couple of bits in the settings of the PDF (or at worst tell it to change a couple of bits on every page.) But it doesn't seem like Acrobat (or anything else?) is willing to do that simple fix.