How to format a PDF for iPhone

Question

Hopefully someone can help, Adobe support withdrew my question saying 'they don't support that platform', ummm, maybe PDF should be renamed to NPDF (non-portable format)!!
Joking aside, what is the best way to format a PDF for the iPhone.  Problem is, trying to read any PDF on the iPhone you have to keep scolling RIGHT then scroll LEFT for EACH line of text in the PDF - this is obviously unacceptable to users.
Is it possible to save the reflow setting in the actual PDF or is there anyother way, maybe set the margins in the PDF for iPhone screen size.  I only need the PDF to be read on the iPhone if that makes a solution any easier.
Any suggestions much appreciated.  Thanks.

Answer 1

When looping is involved it's almost always easier to use applescript to call a workflow than to try to loop in automator. Make a workflow that looks like this:
Then call it in an applescript loop like this:
-- get main folder that contains other folders
set mainF to choose folder
tell application "System Events"
  -- gather the subfolders
          set subFs to {folderNames:name, folderPaths:POSIX path} of (folders of mainF)
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to count of folderNames of subFs
          set fPath to item i of folderPaths of subFs
          set fName to item i of folderNames of subFs
  -- call automator to create the pdf
          set workflowOutput to do shell script "automator -i " & quoted form of fPath & " '/path/to/worklow.workflow'"
  -- rename the file (stripping of the extra bits that the automator utility adds to the file path
          tell application "System Events"
                    set newPDFPath to text 6 thru -4 of workflowOutput
                    set name of file newPDFPath to fName & ".pdf"
          end tell
end repeat