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Best practices: Designing documents for the Kindle and Nook
You can export a document to a PDF, then transfer the PDF to a Kindle or Nook for viewing. A Kindle user can go to a specific page in the PDF, search for text phrases, and switch between landscape to portrait view (on the Kindle DX). A Nook user can use bookmarks to jump to a specific section of the PDF, go to the last read page, change the text font size, rotate PDF pages, and search for text phrases.
When designing a document that might be viewed on a Kindle or Nook, do the following to ensure that the document is displayed correctly:
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If the document contains multiple layouts, set the default export option to export all layouts. This ensures that the Kindle or Nook user can view all the data.
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If your document contains page-by fields, set the default export option to export all pages. This ensures that the Kindle or Nook user can view all the data.
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If the document will be viewed on a Nook, include bookmarks so that a user can quickly access a specific section of the document. Bookmarks are displayed in the PDF in a tree format, creating a table of contents as a navigation aid. Bookmarks are created only when a document is grouped or contains multiple layouts.
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Embed fonts in the PDF, so that bullets, thresholds, and any other objects that require special fonts are displayed correctly. A Nook user can change the text font only if the fonts are embedded. For instructions, see Embedding fonts in PDFs.
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Both the Kindle and the Nook have a gray-scale display, so be sure that the contrast in graphs and other images are high enough so that a user can easily distinguish between different areas.
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The Kindle resizes the PDF to the size of the Kindle screen, so ensure that text and graphics are sized large enough to be clearly viewable on the Kindle.