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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
alpman,
Actually, more important than your screen size are 2 factors: - Can the PDA/phone you own or want run Adobe's PDF reader for PDAs? and
- Are the PDFs you want to read tagged to reflow?
PDF readers for PDAs are not all equal. Many of them, made by vendors other than Adobe, will take a PDA and turn it into an image to read, which means you will find yourself scrolling your PDF page left to right to read a single line, then down and back to the left for the next line. Muy mal, Cisco.
Adobe's PDF reader for PDAs is designed to reflow text, so you don't have to scroll left to right to read. However, the PDF has to be "tagged", that is, it needs additional coding embedded in it to allow it to reflow. That must be done by the people who created the PDF... it can't be done by you after the fact. (Anyone else know of another reader that reflows tagged PDFs, speak up here!)
So, if your PDA/phone has Adobe's PDF reader on it, AND the PDF is tagged to reflow, you can read it on your device, resize the text to your liking, and only have to scroll downward to read.
That said: I use a 320x240 QVGA screen for PDF reading, and I think it works fine, and has a great resolution for text. You can also read e-books in other formats besides PDF, of course (the readers are all free... download 'em all!). |
Are Google and Internet Archive pdfs viewable on a pda, hand held pc etc? What about DJVU? All the e-ink readers suck on both and I don't like reading on a Tablet PC.