On 22 March 2011 11:24, Simon Redmond <si...@sibass.co.uk> wrote: > I used calibre to convert a series of pdf's (funnily enough for an ou > course) into the more native format for my kindle as I found reading the pdf > to much of a strain on the eyes. It seems to work well, however its not a > perfect conversion formatting can sometimes go a bit funny and images don't > seem to come though, but works for my purposes.
I've found Amazon's free conversion process gives a better result, keeping more formatting and fonts; email the pdf with the subject "convert" to yourusern...@free.kindle.com (no body text needed). It's even delivered to your device via WiFi. For native PDFs Briss (http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/) works well to crop margins so it's a better fit. As an aside, if you're into comics or manga the Kindle will read images straight from a zip (.zip, .cbz) and keep track of the last page viewed. I've found that processing the images using Mangle before zipping gives a good quality output on the Kindle. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
