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The sad part about this is that it shows how much Kindle's current PDF conversion service needs to improve. I have tried sending PDFs to the email conversion se
by roxtar 15y ago
The sad part about this is that it shows how much Kindle's current PDF conversion service needs to improve. I have tried sending PDFs to the email conversion service and more often than not it screws up diagrams, figures and equations. Even text documents, which you don't need to pass through the conversion, don't always render well (try transferring any RFC to your Kindle and see how it comes out).
- obiterdictum 15y agoPDF conversion is a difficult problem. To my rudimentary understanding of the format, PDF documents aren't really plain text, they have no semantic information, they are just individual glyphs and figures mapped to absolute coordinates on a fixed-size page. This format is really meant to be as a portable printer-friendly document format, not ereader-friendly dynamically resizable format. I can't comment on the RFC part of your comment.
- Someone 15y agoPDF started as a pure (100% ASCII!) page description language, but it later was transformed to a binary format, and even later, accessibility support made it easier to retrieve the text from a PDF document (before that, all you would have were the glyphs. For English text, these often mapped 1:1 to characters, but they did not need to) and some support for reflowing documents was bolted on (http://www.adobe.com/uk/epaper/tips/acr5reflow/ http://www.adobe.com/uk/epaper/tips/acr5reflow/). Both accessibility and this reflowing do require participation by the creator of the file, though.
- safeaim 15y agoYou should try this program out: http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/ http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/ Ingenious for multi-column pdf's :)