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PDFMunge: Improve the display of technical PDFs on eBook readers

41 点作者 felixc超过 15 年前

9 条评论

felixc超过 15 年前
Special bonus tip for HN readers! To get a set of good starting values for cropping the margins, use the existing pdfcrop utility with the --verbose flag.<p>It will display the existing BoundingBox property as it processes each page. Let it run for a few pages, kill it, and use those numbers as a starting point. They will probably not be as tight as you'd like, since they won't cut out page numbers or headers.
w00pla超过 15 年前
For someone that has a Kindle/KindleDX/Nook: How good is the Kindle/Kindle DX for technical books? I want to buy one (since I am immigrating and will lose all my textbooks).<p>Is it good for technical books - since the page turn speed is apparently very slow? Will the iPad be better for this?
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ComputerGuru超过 15 年前
Pretty much the only thing that's making me consider switching from my Sony PRS-505 (it's the one pictured in the blog post) to a Kindle DX is the ability to read PDFs without the annoying and buggy reflowing. Cutting pages doesn't do the trick for me though.. I probably *will&#38; get the DX :(
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caryme超过 15 年前
Interesting. Some practice with this could make textbooks (especially smaller ones) useable on the regular Kindle / Nook / Sony reader.
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butterfi超过 15 年前
I can't help but chuckle -- this why geeks hate the iPad, and everyone else will love it.
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agbell超过 15 年前
Great Idea. Rather than re-flow, it cuts up the pages so they fit in 'landscape' mode.<p>Reflow works well, but not with diagrams and images.
JulianMorrison超过 15 年前
It would be better to publish as epub. Pragprog does this.
ableal超过 15 年前
For technical papers in two-column format, I've thought of just chopping each page into four. (Brute force, judiciously applied. ;-)<p>If you feel like testing that, I'd appreciate to hear about it.
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sabat超过 15 年前
Sigh. Well, no joy on the mac, despite the presumed promise of platform-neutral Python.<p>Python 2.5.1:<p>line 8: !DOCTYPE: No such file or directory<p>line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'<p>line 9: ` "<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&#62" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&#62</a>;<p>Python 3.0:<p><pre><code> File "pdfmunge.py", line 8 &#60;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" ^ </code></pre> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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