Intentionally (partially) top posting. Two (or three comments) one interspersed below:
* Thanks to all who replied! * I'm out of the woods now, I managed to read one book (mostly), and I found a .pdf of the other book with a reasonable line length (matches the dead tree version). I am surprised that I've found 3 differennt .pdfs of that book, two with much larger line lengths (number of characters) than the dead tree version -- I guess (1) somone had access to the orginal (non .pdf) file and (2) had a good reason for the longer line lengths. On Wednesday, October 29, 2025 01:00:02 PM Bigsy Bohr wrote: > On 2025-10-28, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm reading with Okular. If I enlarge the font (to be readable) the > > number of characters per line remains the same but the line gets longer, > > leading to the need to scroll horizontally (in the window or with my > > head / eyes) to read the entire line. > > I'm reading that it can *reflow* text: View → Continuous or View → Fit > Width. ("Text selection" or "Accessibility" mode). Those options don't change the number of characters per line, so really were not useful. The Continuous mode "scrolls" past page breaks, the non- continuous mode ends the text of each page and leaves blank space after it, you that have to scroll further down to see the next page. The various width options just change the size of the font as the width of the text (within the viewing window) changes. > I send the PDFs I want to read to my ereader by email with the word convert > in the subject line.
