[OS X TeX] Configuring LaTeX produced PDF's for a Kindle

[David Derbes]

Thank you very much, William!

David Derbes
U of Chicago Lab Schools

On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:37 AM, William Adams wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:23 PM, David Derbes wrote:
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>> My guess is that there is a sensible solution out there somewhere, using the geometry package or something. Does anyone have an appropriate preamble incantation that will output what would have been standard US pages into a nice Kindle format? I don't mind flipping pages 4x as often, but having to scroll first left and then right, or reading tiny tiny fonts, is just unacceptable. I think someone has invented this wheel already, but there's nothing obvious on the web as yet.
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> As David and Peter noted, one simply needs the proper size (well, actually proportion, since the .pdfs will scale) and appropriately sized text for the line width.
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> The design I worked up for Mike Brotherton's _StarDragon_ works pretty well (if w/ overly generous margins, see usenet:comp.text.tex).
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> Kevin Klement has done a lot of work in this space and has a source code archive up at:
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> http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html
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> There's been some discussion of this at www.mobileread.com including this page of tests:
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> http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107585&highlight=latex
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> As the last post notes, if you can, converting to a Kindle Book (or ePub for other platforms) (using latex2html or a similar tool to import into the authoring program Amazon provides) is probably a better option.
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> William
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> William Adams
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