K2pdfopt font size problems

[Cale Henituse]

I have a scribe, and I am using k2pdfopt for reflowing odds. I must say it’s a wonder, and a delight to work with.

However, I face problems with font size management. I see that -fs allows explicit specifications of font size and -mag magnifies it.

Both of these aren’t helping very much when I try to convert research papers pdf.

-mag isn’t uniformly magnifying, and some parts of text actually look smaller. They appear cluttered as well, which can be somewhat mitigated by using -vls

-fs is just changing section headings’ font size. Adding + causes sudden page breaks at page breaks of og pdf. The normal text font size is not changing.

Can someone please help me with some tips or tricks to increase font size?

[rkomar]

This may be a stupid question, but why don't you just set the display size of the converted pdf to be smaller, and then just read it expanded to fit the screen on your device? All of the text would be uniformly magnified then.

[Cale Henituse]

Originally Posted by rkomar

This may be a stupid question, but why don't you just set the display size of the converted pdf to be smaller, and then just read it expanded to fit the screen on your device? All of the text would be uniformly magnified then.

Wouldn't that make the display blurry?

[rkomar]

It probably would get blurry if you were outputting a PDF of images. I believe that the "-n" option with k2pdfopt will produce native PDF output, which should scale nicely when magnified.

[willus]

Originally Posted by Cale Henituse

I have a scribe, and I am using k2pdfopt for reflowing odds. I must say it’s a wonder, and a delight to work with.

However, I face problems with font size management. I see that -fs allows explicit specifications of font size and -mag magnifies it.

Both of these aren’t helping very much when I try to convert research papers pdf.

-mag isn’t uniformly magnifying, and some parts of text actually look smaller. They appear cluttered as well, which can be somewhat mitigated by using -vls

-fs is just changing section headings’ font size. Adding + causes sudden page breaks at page breaks of og pdf. The normal text font size is not changing.

Can someone please help me with some tips or tricks to increase font size?

Can you list all of the options you are using with k2pdfopt and also maybe post a few sample pages of your source document? Are you using re-flow? Is your source doc two columns? How large do you want the text to be on your scribe?