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Old 08-13-2009, 02:11 AM   #8
JamesFlames
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A Different Method

I have been tinkering with this problem and have a solution which seems quite effective.

What I have done is to break the PDF into separate JPGs then compress them back into a CBZ comic file. The resulting file can be viewed with Evince or Comix and flips pages almost immediately.

To do this on my linux pc I used the command "convert NAME.pdf NAME.jpg".
Then I selected all the resulting JPGs and compressed them into a CBZ file.

The result is not as sharp as the original PDF but is slightly smaller and works much faster. There are some functions of the "convert" app that may be useful but I haven't had much time to experiment.

I'm sure that there are comparable tools for Mac and Windows if you look. Remember that CBZ files are just ZIP files with the extension renamed.

I'd be interested to know if anyone can finesse this method a bit.

@ Heron - This would almost certainly work for your N810 as well.

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