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"Ideal" Kindle 2 PDF page size
I've been experimenting a bit with an 'ideal' page size for self-created PDFs.
I've attached the sample that seemed to work best: 8.5 cm wide x 11.4 cm tall and 0 margin. Kindle adds a bit of margin - and it appears that the content is zoomed to fit width, and centred both horisontally and vertically. Horisontal centering looks odd if you only have a short paragraph left on the 'page' (last page of my sample). The zoom-to-fit also affects the size of the fonts - but I think I've come pretty close to a PDF page size that displays the fonts in a size that matches actual print size (in vertical view). Since there's little margin top and bottom, I made another sample 1 cm shorter (8.5x10.4 cm). This also seems to work okay if you like a bit more margin top and bottom. On the first page I drew a box along the edges of the 'paper', so they're 'visible' - and if you shift back and forth between page 1 and 2 on the Kindle, you can compare font sizes and 'margins' The font is calibri and font size is 12 pt. On a final note; if this is the way PDFs work on the Kindle DX, I fully understand why the PDF implementation on this device is considered 'basic' ![]() |
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Thanks Ea, 85x114 mm works great.
I used these dimenasions to create a PDF of a section of a webpage I wanted to read on the Kindle. For those interested, printing directly from Firefox was making a mess of things so I found the easiest way was to copy to Word, change the dimensions and use Acrobat Pro's "Create PDF" plugin. |
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PDFs are good, but I preffer to convert they
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Added: Sometimes PDFs are the best option. For things like recipes, I might want to keep the ingredient list on a single 'page' - the easiest way to do that is creating a PDF. Likewise with a travel intinary or bus plan. PDFs are the 'quick-and'dirty' way for me to easily create documents where I need some control over how it's displayed on the page, or where the source material is messy and needs editing. With some source material, creating a PDF from Word or some such, is by far the quickest and easiest way to make something that looks well. For things like fan fiction, which is short, it's rarely worth it saving as .doc, opening Windows in VMWare, starting up Mobipocket Creator and creating a .mobi book. And I've had poor results with using rtf->mobi in calibre. Last edited by Ea; 01-01-2010 at 03:55 AM. |
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HI. I'm a newbie and the mobipocket creator will not load on any of my two laptops, the computer gets so far and refuses to carry on... is it best to do that through safe mode?
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![]() Since your question seems completely unrelated to the (rather old) thread you posted it in, I think you would have a much higher chance of getting help if you start a new thread and post your question there. Also, it would be better to post it in the Mobi sub forum as your question is related to Mobipocket Creator. |
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I have been searching for a simple explanation to what I knew had to be a simple task: moving a Word document from my laptop to my Kindle for my own personal use. All I found were 'simple' ways to self publish—and they weren't so simple! Your explanation was exactly what I needed. And it worked fabulously.
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