Technical PDf's on Kindle2

Zorz · 01-08-2010, 03:07 AM

Now I wanted a ereader and told my lovely mother about it. She decided to get me a Kindle and so far it has been good. I find it to only be lacking in technical PDF's. In portrait mode I simply cannot read the documents unless the kindle is near my eyes. In landscape mode I can see the text a bit better but its not perfect. By not perfect I mean sometimes a line of text gets cut in half and it is impossible to see, the only work around I have found is to go down two pages and then back up, and the kindle will reformat the page.

Here is a Pic of the Kindle in Portrait Mode

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Now in Landscape, you can see the huge difference

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Now in landscape mode, notice the bottom of the text you can see the top of the line

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Now the next page, notice the rest of the cut of line at the top.

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What can I do to stop this?

Jonas777 · 01-08-2010, 04:36 AM

Not much but tell Amazon about your experience and ask for a better pdf-viewer to be included in the Kindle.
You could also try pdfcropper to reformat the pdf to better fit the kindle.

frabjous · 01-08-2010, 12:51 PM

You could try processing with sopdf first.

yashi · 08-05-2010, 06:43 PM

is that an A4 pdf file O.O

i thought the display wouldnt even be able to render the characters completely (because of the display size/dpi)

but that looks pretty good.

willus · 10-10-2011, 09:14 AM

Particularly for technical PDFs, try processing the PDF with k2pdfopt or PaperCrop before viewing on the kindle.

01-08-2010, 03:07 AM	#1
Zorz Zealot Posts: 134 Karma: 36 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Kindle 2i	Technical PDf's on Kindle2 Now I wanted a ereader and told my lovely mother about it. She decided to get me a Kindle and so far it has been good. I find it to only be lacking in technical PDF's. In portrait mode I simply cannot read the documents unless the kindle is near my eyes. In landscape mode I can see the text a bit better but its not perfect. By not perfect I mean sometimes a line of text gets cut in half and it is impossible to see, the only work around I have found is to go down two pages and then back up, and the kindle will reformat the page. Here is a Pic of the Kindle in Portrait Mode [Image violates Posting Guidelines for size - MODERATOR] Now in Landscape, you can see the huge difference [Image violates Posting Guidelines for size - MODERATOR] Now in landscape mode, notice the bottom of the text you can see the top of the line [Image violates Posting Guidelines for size - MODERATOR] Now the next page, notice the rest of the cut of line at the top. [Image violates Posting Guidelines for size - MODERATOR] What can I do to stop this? Last edited by Dr. Drib; 10-19-2016 at 03:53 PM.

10-10-2011, 09:14 AM	#5
willus Fuzzball, the purple cat Posts: 1,296 Karma: 11087488 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: California Device: iPad	Particularly for technical PDFs, try processing the PDF with k2pdfopt or PaperCrop before viewing on the kindle. Last edited by willus; 12-03-2011 at 09:20 AM.

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01-08-2010, 04:36 AM	#2
Jonas777 Groupie Posts: 153 Karma: 364 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sweden Device: Amazon Kindle 2 Intl	Not much but tell Amazon about your experience and ask for a better pdf-viewer to be included in the Kindle. You could also try pdfcropper to reformat the pdf to better fit the kindle.

01-08-2010, 12:51 PM	#3
frabjous Wizard Posts: 1,213 Karma: 12890 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Device: Sony PRS-505	You could try processing with sopdf first.

08-05-2010, 06:43 PM	#4
yashi Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: none	is that an A4 pdf file O.O i thought the display wouldnt even be able to render the characters completely (because of the display size/dpi) but that looks pretty good.

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