PDF or LRF for PRS700

[el.astrologo]

Hey guys, what's up?

I'm trying to upload some textbooks I have to my PRS700, thing is they are in pdf and I'm wondering if I should convert them to something else before dumping them on the poor little gizmo.

I know that the PRS700 handles pdfs quite well (one of the reasons I bought it, actually) but I'm not sure which would look nicer. This is a two column textbook which has been OCRed so it's text and some pictures.

What's your advise?

Thanks in advance

[frabjous]

I don't think the format itself (PDF vs LRF) matters much if it's scanned text. The more important thing would be to remove the whitespace, and divide the columns to get readable output, so I wouldn't just convert it in Calibre or similar, but actually do some processing of it.

I would feed it through PDFLRF or similar program personally (Rasterfarian, PDFread, SoPDF, PaperCrop... or if you have the time, cut and paste the exact columns of text as separate pages using Acrobat).

I've had the best kind of luck with PDFLRF for this kind of job, personally. Unfortunately, the link for it is no longer available here at Mobileread, but you can find it if you search hard enough for it.

Of course, there's no reason to try it just as is, and see how well the reflow works, but you might not like the results.