I'm looking for a utility or such to change the number of characters in lines of a .pdf file.
Background: I'm trying to read two books that as .pdfs and both are hard for me to read because the number of characters per line is so large (90+ in one case, 130+ in another) that when I make the fonts large enough to read with my old eyes, the line length is so long that I have to scroll my head (or eyes) to read the entire line). Aside: I did try using pdftotext to convert the files to plain text but that had two problems: (1) illustrations and such were lost, and (2) a "hard" line break remained after the 90th or so or 130th or so character which meant that if the line didn't fit in my reading window, each line would become two lines of unequal length, e.g., something like this: Aside: I did try using pdftotext to convert the files to plain text but that had two problems: (1) illustrations and such were lost, and (2) a "hard" Not very readable. (In the past, sometimes I've run a set of macros to fix that, it's fairly easy when paragraphs are separated by two line feeds, but in thise files they are not, so my utilities have to be revised to make an (unreliable) attempt at maintaining separate paragraphs (instead of gigantic "run together" paragraphs.) I think the ideal solution is to shorten the line lengths in the .pdf. (I have and will look for the books in e-book format which might also be workable (I'm assuming I'd be able to adjust line lengths), but I'd like to find a reasonable means of shortening the lines in the .pdf files. Thanks!
