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Sony PRS950BC User Manual

Sony PRS950BC User Manual

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  • Page 1 User’s Guide to Creating PDFs for the Sony Reader ®...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Adobe PDF or PDF Creator printer V. Doing more with Adobe Acrobat ® Reformat an existing PDF for use on the Sony® Reader Enhance navigation of your PDF with internal linking Create a Sony® Reader-optimized PDF preset for streamlined PDF generation Import an existing Sony®...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    Reader’s screen size and resolution. This instructional document is intended to provide all the information necessary to create PDFs that are ready to be viewed in the Sony Reader from a variety of common applications.
  • Page 4 Reader ® A range of fonts and font sizes will display clearly in PDFs on the Sony Reader. As a general starting point, we recommend using Arial and Times Roman as base fonts at sizes of 7 points. Text is legible at 6 points, though at this size it can lose some clarity. Large fonts will tend to use up screen space rather rapidly given the maximum document dimensions.

  • Page 5: Creating Pdfs From Word Processing Documents

    Following these step-by-step instructions will enable you use word processing software to produce PDFs that are optimized for display on the Sony® Reader. The first part of the overall process is to create a word processing document with the right dimensions and layout.
  • Page 6 7. In the Paper tab, set width to 3.47” and height at 4.54”. Under “Preview” section, select “Apply to” “Whole document.” Press “OK.”...
  • Page 7 Create PDF using Adobe PDF or PDF Creator printer. If you have purchased and installed Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional, or if you ® ® have installed PDF Creator, you can create PDFs using Microsoft Word’s Print menu. ® Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional 1.
  • Page 8 Name the custom paper size “Sony” (or whatever name you’d prefer to use) in the “Paper Names” field. Set Width at 3.47 and Height at 4.54. Set the “Unit” as “Inch.” Then click the “Add/Modify” button. (This will bring you back to the “Adobe PDF Settings” tab.) In the future, your new custom size will be available for you to select in the “Adobe PDF...
  • Page 9 General tab Images tab...
  • Page 10 Fonts tab Color tab...
  • Page 11 (see #3 above). 8. Press the “OK” button and provide a filename and location for your PDF file to be written to. 9. To set the filename and author that will appear in the Sony Reader menu, open your ®...
  • Page 12 From the File menu, select “Document Properties.” Type the title and author in the corresponding fields. PDF Creator 1. Optimize document size and margin settings in Microsoft Word—see p. 5, step 1. ® 2. Select File Print. 3. For Printer, select “PDFCreator.”...
  • Page 13 4. Click “Properties” in the “Print” dialog box. Select the “Paper/Quality” tab. With the “Color” option selected, click the “Advanced” tab. 5. Select “PostScript Custom Page.”...
  • Page 14 6. Set Custom Page Size Dimensions at 3.47 Width by 4.54 Height, with “Inch” as selected Unit. Press the “OK” button. 7. In the PDF Creator dialog box, type the title and author that you want to appear in the Sony Reader file menu. ®...
  • Page 15 Acrobat”) for instructions on using Adobe ® ® Standard or Professional to create links within your PDF document that can be Acrobat ® navigated on the Sony Reader. Please note, however, that bookmarks created in ® Microsoft Word will not appear in the Reader. ®...
  • Page 16 5. Click “OK,” then return to Format Page. Under “Paper Format,” set Width to 3.47” and Height to 4.54”. Under “Margins,” set all margins to 0.15”. Create PDF using Adobe PDF or PDF Creator printer. 1. Select File Print. 2. For Printer, select either “Adobe PDF” or “PDFCreator.” 3.

  • Page 17: Iii. Creating Pdfs From Presentations

    III. Creating PDFs from Presentations Following these step-by-step instructions will enable you use presentation software to produce PDFs that are optimized for display on the Sony Reader. The first part of the ® overall process is to create a presentation with the right dimensions and layout. The second part of the process is to generate a PDF with appropriate settings.
  • Page 18 5. Click “OK” and return to Format Page. Under “Paper Format,” set Width to 3.47 inches and Height to 4.54 inches. Under “Margins,” set all margins to 0.15 inches. Then click “OK.” Create PDF using Adobe PDF printer or PDF Creator. 1.

  • Page 19: Creating Pdfs From Professional Layout Applications

    Preferences, selecting “Measurements,” and selecting “Inches.” 2. Open a new document by selecting File Project. 3. In the New Project dialog box, create a layout named “Sony” and provide settings for page dimensions and margins as shown below. (Automatic text box is optional.)
  • Page 20 4. Now you are ready to format your document within the optimized layout that you have generated. As a general styling recommendation, fonts appear clearly on the Reader at a minimum size of 6 or 7 points. 5. Before opening the Print menu to output your PDF, it is important to ensure that QuarkXPress program can locate all fonts that you have used in your document on ®...
  • Page 21 This problem can be solved in two ways. (a) You can find or purchase the missing fonts and place them in the fonts folder on your computer. A common location for the fonts folder on Windows systems is ® C:\WINDOWS\Fonts. (b) You can use the Replace button in QuarkXPress to substitute other fonts that are available to the application.
  • Page 22 ® remain available for future use. To define a Print Style, go to Edit Print Styles. In the dialog, select “New” and provide a name for your Sony Reader-optimized print ® style (for example, “SonyPrintStyle”). Settings for the print style are as follows:...
  • Page 23 Setup Output Options...
  • Page 24 9. Click the “Properties” button to the right of the “Printer” menu in order to select the proper PDF settings. In the “Default settings” menu, select “Sony Settings.” (See Section V [“Doing More with Adobe Acrobat”] for instructions on creating or installing this Sony-optimized PDF ®...
  • Page 25 10. From the same “Adobe PDF Settings” tab, click the “Add” button next to the “Adobe PDF Page Size” menu. Change the Width and Height fields to the values shown below. Provide a new “Paper Name” (for example, “SonySize”), and then click the “Add/Modify” button. 11.
  • Page 26 12. Press “OK,” and you will return to the Print menu. From the Print Style menu, be sure to select the Sony Reader-optimized print style that ® you created in step #7 above (for example, “SonyPrintStyle”). This print style will generate most of the settings in the various tabs depicted below. The key exception to this is the “OPI”...
  • Page 27 Setup Output Options...
  • Page 28 Layers Bleed Ensure that “OPI Active” is unchecked and that the rest of the settings are grayed out. 13. Click the “Print” button to generate your Sony Reader-optimized PDF. ®...
  • Page 29 Adobe InDesign ® 1. Navigate to Edit Preferences Units & Increments. Set origin to page and ensure that units are in inches. 2. Open a new document by selecting File Document. Apply settings shown in the image below. Click the “More Options” button if the bleed settings are not visible.
  • Page 30 3. Click the “Save Preset” button and name your preset “Sony Preset.” 4. Now you are ready to develop and format your document. As a general styling recommendation, fonts appear clearly on the Reader at a minimum size of 6 or 7 points.
  • Page 31 6. Review the “Links” palette to check that all images used in your document are properly linked to your InDesign file. (If the “Links” palette is not visible, select “Links” in the “Window” menu.) A question mark icon beside the image filename means that the image is not properly linked.
  • Page 32 General Setup For “Paper Size,” select “Custom. Then provide settings as shown below.
  • Page 33 Marks and Bleed Output...
  • Page 34 Graphics Color Management...
  • Page 35 Advanced Click “OK.” The Print Preset that you have created will now be available as a setting in the InDesign Print menu. 9. To generate your PDF, select File Print. In the Print dialog, select “SonyPrintPreset” as the Print Preset. All fields will be populated with the settings from your Print Preset.

  • Page 36: Doing More With Adobe

    Doing More with Adobe Acrobat ® Reformatting a PDF for the Sony Reader in Microsoft Word or ® ® OpenOffice.org Writer 1. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional. Select File Save As. ® ® 2. In the “Save as type” drop-down menu, select “Rich Text Format (*.rtf).” (Please note that if security settings have been applied to the PDF, this option may not be available.)
  • Page 37 Creating a linked Table of Contents in Acrobat 1. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Standard or Adobe Acrobat Professional. ® ® 2. Open Tools Advanced Editing Link Tool. 3. Using the Link Tool, draw a rectangle around the text to be linked. 4.
  • Page 38 Reader-optimized PDF preset ® Once you create this preset, you will be able to use it to generate Sony Reader- optimized PDFs from all applications that allow printing. The preset can also be exported as a .joboptions file that can be readily installed in other Windows or Macintosh systems.
  • Page 39 3. Select the “Edit” button next to the “Default Settings” field. 4. Select the settings shown in the following figures: General tab...
  • Page 40 Images tab Fonts tab...
  • Page 41 Color tab Advanced tab 5. Click the “Save As” button and provide a name for the settings preset (for example, “SonySettings”). Next time you want to create a PDF optimized for the Sony Reader, ® just select the Adobe PDF printer, click “Properties” or “Preferences,” and select your...
  • Page 42 © 2007 Sony Electronics, Inc. Reproduction in whole or in parts without written permission is prohibited. All rights reserved. This manual and the software described herein, in whole or in part, may not be reproduced, translated, or reduced to any machine readable form without prior written approval.
  • Page 43 The software described herein is governed by the terms of a separate user license agreement. This manual references software owned by Sony and licensed by third parties.