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Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Are Easier to Read on Your Ereader

47 pointsby monoover 14 years ago

8 comments

larsbergover 14 years ago
I know I should "just do it myself," but I keep waiting for something that can unsplit and unwrap PDFs generated in ACM double-column style with LaTeX word-breaking and turn it into an epub with graphics for the figures/tables. Trying to deal with that 9-ish pt. font is a huge pain for my old eyes. I ended up giving up on reading them on my iPad because keeping a reasonable zoom level and managing to scan down then over to the next column required the finger dexterity of a concert pianist (even on GoodReader, which is quite, well, Good).
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felixcover 14 years ago
A similar tool is my own PDFMunge, previously discussed on HN here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089068" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089068</a> and in more depth on my site here: <a href="http://www.felixcrux.com/posts/pdfmunge-improve-pdfs-ebook-readers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.felixcrux.com/posts/pdfmunge-improve-pdfs-ebook-r...</a><p>But this looks quite a bit more polished and user-friendly.
afshinover 14 years ago
Clever name ... a little crass.
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gaiusparxover 14 years ago
PDF is ill fitted to be the format for mobile devices due to its format-for-print purpose with no text-overflow. Its time epub and mobi takes over.
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fdbover 14 years ago
On the iPad, GoodReader can do margin cropping on the fly, and remembers the margins you've set up for a document so they're reapplied when you open the document again.<p><a href="http://www.goodreader.net/goodreader.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.goodreader.net/goodreader.html</a>
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kraemateover 14 years ago
I've been wanting something like this for ages - particularly to print ebooks and latex stuff with their huge side-margins. The basic aim is to trim all margins and print 2 pages side-by-side (landscape).<p>While Briss trims the margins just fine, printing the (trimmed) document as pdf(or ps) restores the margins. (Tried on okular/evince). What gives?
chopsueyarover 14 years ago
Good name.
sicularsover 14 years ago
Oy vey.