Greetings everyone; clueless newbie here, so please pardon any incompletes/errors/etc…
I write newsletters with photos that I email as attachments to a group of friends (through GoogleGroups). Due to format jumping all around on .docx or .odt, I began converting them into Pdf (all within LibreOffice Document). But several friends have complained that when they open them on mobile devices (cell phones), the file appears tiny and absolutely unreadable. Is there any way to resolve this? I’m willing to save in other formats (.docx or .odt for instance) but most friends don’t have the .odt and the .docx changes the layout entirely (pix appear over text, alignmeent shifts, etc…).
Thanks for any suggestions!
I use a Samsung Flexbook 15.6 running Mint20 (dual Windows - but I’m trying to stick to Mint)
I have no problem opening PDF files generated with LibreOffice Writer (or Calc) on Android mobile phones and a tablet using AnDoc or EBookDroid. Thus, I’d suspect that your friends use bad software / phones.
Anyway, provide more detail / share a sample file.
I’m having the same issue. When I create a document in Writer, my phone reads it just fine, but others have issues with the format changing for them. When I convert to pdf, it keeps the pc document format which appears tiny on the phone.
Opening isn’t the problem. It’s the format. The document is still formatted for pc, so it appears very small on the phone.
This works as intended for pdf. In Writer or Word you define a size of the page, which is kept when converting to pdf. It is one of the reasons why pdf was created to have the document printed/rendered the same on all devices. (Once upon the time people even used “printers”…)
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But if you try to show a full A4 page on a tiny mobile screen they are small.
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3 ways out: Some PDF-Readers allow reflow of the text, but educating readers is hopeless. Epub or markdown are formats, wich would reflow and can be used as attachment. But the real question is why you don’t use html for your newsletter. Reflow is standard and no attachment needed.