How do I rotate a mobipocket file?

[GatorDeb]

I have a PDF that I want converted to PRC. I tried Mobipocket creator and the text was too jumbled at parts. I tried Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) and exported to RTF and HTML - no dice, still bad formatting. Sent it to Amazon and it came BEAUTIFULLY. I LOVE IT. The only problem? It's sideways for some reason. And I loaded it onto the Kindle and it's sideways and only shows half a page at a time. How can I fix this?

Thanks!

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by GatorDeb

I have a PDF that I want converted to PRC. I tried Mobipocket creator and the text was too jumbled at parts. I tried Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) and exported to RTF and HTML - no dice, still bad formatting. Sent it to Amazon and it came BEAUTIFULLY. I LOVE IT. The only problem? It's sideways for some reason. And I loaded it onto the Kindle and it's sideways and only shows half a page at a time. How can I fix this?

Thanks!

Interesting. Did they convert it to Topaz (.azw)? If so, I don't think you can do much to change the layout.

BOb

[GatorDeb]

Yep, azw.

[pilotbob]

One of the books I recently read on my Kindle was Topaz. The font was not the standard font, and the lines were closer together than normal and the font was much heavier (bold) than normal. Also, the Chapter headings were graphical.

So, Topaz must allow for position based layout and graphics where mobi doesn't I assume this is why they are converting the PDF to Topaz. To preserve to original layout as much as possible.

I've gotta say I didn't like the Topaz ebook formatting. The font was hard to read at the normal font setting an there were some funky artifacts where a word was dropped between some lines in some places. Also, the page turning was very slow. I much prefer the mobi ebook format on the Kindle. The font is much nicer and the page turns about about 4x faster.

BOb

[tlrowley]

.azw != Topaz. Topaz files have the extension .azw1 or .tpz (depending on whether you downloaded them directly to the Kindle to to your computer).

.azw files, at least in the past, have been the modified (?) mobi format.

Carld has reported differences in how Amazon has converted PDFs here. Maybe that's what happened here?

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Did they convert it to Topaz (.azw)?

Topaz is .azw1, if it is an .azw then it is a MOBI.

From your description, Amazon may have converted the PDF to half page images and assembled them into a MOBI. One way to check is to see if changing the font size has any effect. If not, then it is a file of images.

Amazon does seem to convert PDFs to TOPAZ when they are producing ebooks for publishers, because of the reasons that pilotbob mentions. However, I have not seen a rotated TOPAZ ebook. I agree that TOPAZ is largely a failure as an ebook format.

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

From your description, Amazon may have converted the PDF to half page images and assembled them into a MOBI.

Confirmed by New PDF conversion software at Amazon?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

Topaz is .azw1, if it is an .azw then it is a MOBI.

Doh! I thought .azw was Topaz and .prc was mobi? I thought I saw .prc on my Kindle that were downloaded from amazon. Do they use both?

Thanks for the correction.

BOb