#CONVERT PDF TO KINDLE FOR MAC MANUALS#

Unfortunately this process is very hard to do well with complex PDF files. There are dozens of PDF conversion programs available to convert PDFs to a format more suited to a Kindle (or smartphone) but most work in a similar way – they basically ‘scan’ the PDF file into an editable format (like OCR, Optical Character Recognition) then shrink the page size, layout, text size etc and output back to PDF or another file format e.g. However, this fixed layout makes a complex, multiple column PDF file designed with large text/fonts (for easy viewing on a PC or laptop) extremely difficult to ‘shrink’ to fit a 6 inch Kindle display – and even harder for a smartphone’s tiny screen.

#CONVERT PDF TO KINDLE FOR MAC MANUALS#

This makes PDFs ideal for printing (as one page will always be printed on a single sheet of paper) which is why so many user manuals and brochures are in PDF format.

with a fixed layout, page size and text placement. The PDF standard was designed to always display documents in the same manner i.e. Those methods may work fine for simple files, but more complex PDFs may look terrible on a Kindle… Yesterday I reviewed 2 easy methods to transfer a PDF file to a Kindle, using integrated USB transfer and Kindle conversion. K2pdfopt is an easy to use PDF conversion program and produces PDF output files optimized for Kindle or smartphones.

Convert pdf to kindle for mac