PDFs and The Big Red X

[gtriever]

This may or may not be new information to some of the oldtimers here, but may help the newbies. If any of you are not members at the B&N forum, a poster there (hpg) has sent the following tip along:

After much experimenting I have discovered how to fix the pdf's that show up as red x's. most likely these are scanned pdf and downloaded to your computer.from an internet site. They are read by acrobat but not the nook.. if you do not already have cutepdf, get and install it. Then open your redx pdf on your computer and print it to the cutepdf option. if you are not familiar with cutepdf it is not really a printer (although it shows up as a printer choice)but a pdf converter. Then load the converted pdf file onto the nook. I had trouble with 3 pdf's, some massive (80mgb file, about 1000 pages), some small. All 3 worked perfectly on the nook after using cutepdf.

I assume the original files are ocr and not true pdf's. Even adobe acrobat (the real program, not the reader) does not recognize my originals as pdf's..