Create PDFs formatted for easy iPhone reading

Oct 21, '08 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: wallsbk

I wanted to upload a copy of the book collection I keep in Delicious Library 1 to my iPhone. Since Delicious Library can't sync to the iPhone like it can to iPod (via the notes feature), I decided to print the collection to a PDF. I uploaded it with the AirSharing application, but I could just as well have emailed it to myself. I ended up with a multi-page PDF the required difficult scaling and dragging to read.

To make things easier, I did the following:

  1. In Page Setup, I created a page 3.5 inches wide by 300 inches long.
  2. After printing my library to the PDF, I opened the PDF on my Mac in Preview.
  3. I chose File » Save as, and saved a copy. I left the Format pop-up menu set to PDF, and set the Quartz Filter pop-up to Reduce File Size.
This gives a very readable single-column document that doesn't take up much space. I do wish I could get rid of more margin, but it's not a bad solution as is.

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