Re: Oracle Doc on A kindle.
From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_roughsea.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:26:38 +0200
Message-ID: <4EA7A81E.5090500_at_roughsea.com>
On 10/25/2011 05:01 PM, Robert Hanuschke wrote:
> 3rd generation Kindle (so, Keyboard) user here.
> I found that reading PDFs on it is not very enjoyable. Due to the zoom
> settings and page ratio, I always had to use landscape orientation which was
> quite odd.
>
> Would be nice to have the documentation as .mobi or .epub (installed Duokan
> on mine). There is software to convert pdf into those formats but the
> outcome is not that good, headlines are not detected or normal lines are
> detected as headlines, totally screwing the formatting..
>
Robert,
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:26:38 +0200
Message-ID: <4EA7A81E.5090500_at_roughsea.com>
On 10/25/2011 05:01 PM, Robert Hanuschke wrote:
> 3rd generation Kindle (so, Keyboard) user here.
> I found that reading PDFs on it is not very enjoyable. Due to the zoom
> settings and page ratio, I always had to use landscape orientation which was
> quite odd.
>
> Would be nice to have the documentation as .mobi or .epub (installed Duokan
> on mine). There is software to convert pdf into those formats but the
> outcome is not that good, headlines are not detected or normal lines are
> detected as headlines, totally screwing the formatting..
>
Robert,
I have never used it yet but the free calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) say they can also convert from HTML, preferably to PDF (which they also support). Starting from HTML, rather than PDF, to generate .mobi or .epub files, might be the thing to do. Just an idea.
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