Financial reports in PRS 505

[gnaray]

Dear Friends,
I am looking for a solution to read financial reports(SEC documents) in PRS 505. The documents are in HTML with some tables. I noticed a solution for Kindle 3 here http://www.rationalwalk.com/?p=10241. I tried HTML conversion in calibre but it wont fit correctly in the device. Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

[mrmikel]

You might want to either post a sample document or a pointer to one. You will need to look at the HTML and see how the tables are specified.

If they are laid out with widths in pixels that may be your problem. You might have to remove the pixel specification and change it to percentages. If memory serves the PRS 505's screen is 800 pixels tall by 600 wide. This might create new problems. If the reports you want to look at are consistent though, it might be worth it as you could do a search and replace once you figure it out. If you have never meddled with HTML before, you might look at: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

You might change the screen orientation to horizontal. That would be wide enough, but your tables will be not be displayed as a whole top to bottom.

As much as I love my 505, it might be much easier to display such reports in a tablet computer. It would also display PDFs without conversion in the size they were designed to display in.

[gnaray]

Sample source document - http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2...80744e10vk.htm

Quickly checked the width in the source, they are specified in %.

[mrmikel]

As a guess I can see in the HTML there are several instructions to nowrap. So it displays what it can.

On my 1600x900 monitor it can display the whole width only in very small type. It may just be too much to do with the Sony Reader.

[gnaray]

It seems to be possible with Kindle 3, which has the same 6 inch screen as PRS 505. An image from the article which I quoted in my first post.

http://www.rationalwalk.com/wp-conte...Comparison.jpg

It uses Amazon's HTML conversion service

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by gnaray

Sample source document - http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2...80744e10vk.htm

I think your best bet is to convert to LRF. Go to lrf output and check Render tables as images. I attached your web page converted to LRF.

Beware if you tweak the Text size multiplier for text rendered in tables you might end up with a image of a converted table too big to display on your reader. You won't just see a part of the image the image will not show at all.

Tables as images may not be ideal but it might suffice for your needs. Certain tables I had to view the doc in landscape mode to make out all the words.

[gnaray]

dwanthny,
I can now read reports on my PRS-505. As you said, it is not perfect but it sufficient for me. Thanks a ton.

Just curious, what is the reason for lrf being superior to epub in this case ?

Originally Posted by dwanthny

I think your best bet is to convert to LRF. Go to lrf output and check Render tables as images. I attached your web page converted to LRF.

Beware if you tweak the Text size multiplier for text rendered in tables you might end up with a image of a converted table too big to display on your reader. You won't just see a part of the image the image will not show at all.

Tables as images may not be ideal but it might suffice for your needs. Certain tables I had to view the doc in landscape mode to make out all the words.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by gnaray

dwanthny,
I can now read reports on my PRS-505. As you said, it is not perfect but it sufficient for me. Thanks a ton.

Just curious, what is the reason for lrf being superior to epub in this case ?

LRF has the option to convert Tables to images. The other conversions don't have this option. You could submit a enhancement request via the tracker and ask Kovid if it is possible to add this feature to epub conversions.