OT: Vegas Manual in E-book Reader

Lou van Wijhe wrote on 5/30/2013, 1:54 PM

I bought myself a Sony E-book reader and copied the VP12 PDF-manual into it, in the hope that I would finally come to reading it in its entirety during an upcoming holiday. PDF has a fixed format and in the e-reader the print is so small that I can hardly read it. I can choose a larger charfacter size but then the reader's response is too slow. Changing the character size on the fly in such a large document apparently is too much for the small processor.

Any ideas?

TIA,
Lou

Comments

Zelkien69 wrote on 5/30/2013, 2:51 PM

http://calibre-ebook.com/

It works great reformatting to readers.

Lou van Wijhe wrote on 5/30/2013, 3:18 PM

Thanks, I'll check it out!

Lou

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/30/2013, 8:35 PM

I use a lot of PDF's on my Kindle. I have it sideways and zoom in a little bit.

PDF's display like images in most readers so you can't change the settings like with an e-book.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 5/31/2013, 6:32 PM

Buy an iPad. I read all of my PDF's on my iPad via DropBox and have no problems with font size.

~jr

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/31/2013, 9:16 PM

For that much I could print them out and laminate them to have the iStuff glare. 8)

DeadRadioStar wrote on 6/1/2013, 3:22 PM

For those who, for whatever reason, need a printed version, have a look here. I bought the VP 12 manual, and yes, like the critical review says, it's black & white, but it's not a huge problem because you can always check the PDF.

As for the iPAD argument, great, if you can afford one, are happy to be locked into the most proprietary system in the world, and have cheap, unlimited wireless internet. Lukily these are still DRM-free PDF's, so a large enough Android tablet will also work.

Lou van Wijhe wrote on 6/2/2013, 11:28 AM

I tested Calibre and it not only works, it works unbelievably fast. The result, however, depends on the complexity of the PDF-file. Calibre f.i. has trouble converting text and images combined on one line. Nevertheless, the text is now readable on my e-reader (Sony PRS-T2) and I can maybe improve the result as I didn't care to study all Calibre settings yet.

I also have a Canon PDF-manual on this Sony e-reader and it can be read just fine because it is not A4 but the smaller A5 size.

I prefer e-readers over iPads because the e-ink screens are more comfortable to read for a long time than back-lit screens (at least to my old eyes) and e-readers are a lot cheaper. I suppose it's not too much of a problem for publishers of manuals to also make an e-pub version available and I'll ask SCS to consider this.

Lou