That's a great tip!<div><br></div><div>For power, look into something like an XPAL portable charger. I have one, and though it charges itself via USB by default, the jack is a standard Nokia one, so I use my Nokia chargers to charge it back up. Very handy.</div>
<div><br>K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Peter Flynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.flynn@mars.ucc.ie">peter.flynn@mars.ucc.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
One of the problems with PDFs that are designed for printing is that the<br>
margins and the orientation are understandably suboptimal for reading on<br>
an 800x480 screen on a handheld device.<br>
<br>
While sorting out some material for a long flight and trip next month, I<br>
realised that by trimming the margins and rotating 90 degrees clockwise,<br>
the pages of a book-shaped PDF could be made to fit comfortably on the<br>
N800 screen so that I could hold it long ways up, with the control<br>
button at the bottom where my thumb would be.<br>
<br>
You can probably do this in a full copy of Acrobat, but the following<br>
LaTeX code seems to do the job:<br>
<br>
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}<br>
\usepackage[landscape,margin=0pt,nohead,nofoot,<br>
papersize={480,800},textheight=440bp]{geometry}<br>
\usepackage{pdfpages}<br>
\pagestyle{empty}<br>
\begin{document}<br>
\includepdf[angle=270,trim=72 72 72 72,pages=-]{filename}<br>
\end{document}<br>
<br>
The only things you need to measure are how much to trim off the four<br>
sides to get rid of some of the margins (the units are Adobe points).<br>
The minus argument to pages means "all"; you can also select a list or<br>
range in curly braces like pages={1,2,3-10,14-22} etc.<br>
<br>
Happy summer reading...now all I need is a battery capable of lasting an<br>
8-hr flight in cattle class where there are no charger outlets...<br>
<br>
///Peter<br>
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