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Old 02-19-2010, 07:08 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Tobago View Post
This is for text-only PDFs, if there are images, overlarge fonts in it, they are replaced with a lower size/resolution version, according to the chosen colour-depth and size in Adobe Reader for PalmOS-Converter.
Are these changed in the PDF itself that is in the PDB container?

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It's easy to get a PDF back, all it takes is finding first hex-values sequence 25 50 44 46 2D ('%PDF-') in the file, stripping everything before it and finding the PDF-End-marker: hex: 25 25 45 4F 46 ('%%EOF') and remove everything after it.
Sounds easy enough to deal with.

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But please do not hardcode opening it with Adobe Reader, but with the system's default PDF-Reader. (I uninstalled Adobe/Acrobat PDF because of frequent security problems and use Foxit PDF Reader instead.)
calibre would open it with the internal viewer unless you set it to use the reader set as the system default.

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I can send you some PDFs if you want, but most are multi-Mebibite large. Should I open a new ticket for Calibre?
Opening a ticket and attaching a few files would be great. If the size prevents them from being attached or if they are under copyright you can email them to me directly at john at nachtimwald.com. I would like a few so I can test the python solution I'll add to calibre before releasing it. I want to play with things like setting the metadata as PDF's and PDB's support different info.
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