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Timber · 08-18-2010, 04:33 AM

Hi Kovid,

Running into something strange that I'm hoping you can help with.

Most of the time, running the calibre Convert E-Books format makes files a LOT smaller when I go from most any other format to .LRF for my Sony Reader.

Recently I've been adding some graphics intensive PDFs (the Osprey military history books) to my library, and they've had a huge growth in file size when converted for load. eg one PDF file The Gulf War 1991 by Alistair Finlan went from a 3.3 MB PDF to a 22.7 MB LRF when I hit the convert button.

Any insights that you might be able to offer as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks a bunch for the great tool and for the help.

08-18-2010, 04:33 AM	#1
Timber Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: iPad, Macbook Pro, Kindle	small PDFs becoming huge LRFs when converted Hi Kovid, Running into something strange that I'm hoping you can help with. Most of the time, running the calibre Convert E-Books format makes files a LOT smaller when I go from most any other format to .LRF for my Sony Reader. Recently I've been adding some graphics intensive PDFs (the Osprey military history books) to my library, and they've had a huge growth in file size when converted for load. eg one PDF file The Gulf War 1991 by Alistair Finlan went from a 3.3 MB PDF to a 22.7 MB LRF when I hit the convert button. Any insights that you might be able to offer as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? Thanks a bunch for the great tool and for the help.