I signed up for a blog tour early this summer, and the protocol for this particular tour is that all my review copies are to be sent out in PDF format (the recipients can then use calibre to format them into mobi, epub, or whatever format, if they choose).
I'm not exactly sure how best to create the PDF that will be used in this way, though. I thought I would just use the PDF version of my print edition, but when I experimentally converted that to a MOBI file to see what would happen, a lot of the formatting got lost (ie, everything became right justified, and there are now line breaks between each of the paragraphs). I have no idea if this is something I can change or not, though. Obviously, the reviewers have the choice of just viewing the file in the raw PDF format, but I have no idea if anyone will actually do so, since there's no way to make the text bigger.
Are there tricks for formatting a PDF to be used in this way? Should I just assume that the reviewers who sign up for this blog tour will be used to this issue, since all of these tours are done this way, and ignore the funky formatting?
I'm not exactly sure how best to create the PDF that will be used in this way, though. I thought I would just use the PDF version of my print edition, but when I experimentally converted that to a MOBI file to see what would happen, a lot of the formatting got lost (ie, everything became right justified, and there are now line breaks between each of the paragraphs). I have no idea if this is something I can change or not, though. Obviously, the reviewers have the choice of just viewing the file in the raw PDF format, but I have no idea if anyone will actually do so, since there's no way to make the text bigger.
Are there tricks for formatting a PDF to be used in this way? Should I just assume that the reviewers who sign up for this blog tour will be used to this issue, since all of these tours are done this way, and ignore the funky formatting?
