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understanding pdf formatting for kindle paperwhite
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I have a Kindle PaperWhite 3 2015 Wifi (PW3). I have k2pdfopt installed on my OS X machine. I tried it and played around options of column, justification, wrapping etc but am not super happy with the results. I have uploaded a few of my PDFs here. They all have a common pattern to them: page numbers on the left, a large block of text that is either right or left, a small text (unit name or citation) to either right or left depending on the position of the large chunk of text and so on. I was wondering what is the first step for me in understanding PDF internals? this is because I want to remove certain parts of text that occur in the PDFs ...for example the name of the unit occurs either to right or left and this affects the way I format the PDF should I make it all align to a single column. Let me know if I should be clearer in describing my problem, I will draw a visual markup and ask again. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 09-21-2016 at 10:30 AM. |
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@sindus - A PDF file implements a "Fixed Layout" model, in essence it emulates sheets of paper, your Kindle is designed to display "Flowable Layout" - like a web page. Converting PDF files to something more suited to your Kindle can be done.
But rather than converting the PDF direct to a Kindle format I would convert to EPUB, and get that 'right' using various tools and one of the EPUB editors. And then I would convert the EPUB into whichever Amazon format best suits your particular Kindle. Have you read this ==>> Read this before Posting PDF Questions Looking at your sample pages I would think your PDFs will be relatively easy to convert to EPUB. I convert up to a dozen PDF's a day, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to seek an optimal solution for each PDF. I've found the following process suits me best... I drop PDF's into MobiCreator, if the resultant PRC is in good shape I convert it to EPUB and fix with an EPUB editor (Sigil or calibre's book editor), if the PRC is in poor shape I convert it to RTF and bash that into shape in Word, using the eBook Tools Add-in for Word (thread in Workshop forum) and my 20+ years-worth of macros. I save as DOCX and convert that to EPUB. Either way I end up with an adequate EPUB. An adequate EPUB is, amongst other things, one that can be readily converted into Kindle formats - MOBI, AZW3 etc. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-22-2016 at 05:52 AM. |
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