iRexDR1000s experiences and wish lists

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Originally Posted by bazmi

for instance, each issue of scientific american takes about 10-15 secs to open the first page and then any zooming, panning etc takes same amount of time. i find that practically unusable.

If anyone wants to try this, SciAm has a sample issue, which is only part of the May 2004 magazine. Perhaps this isn't a good example, but it was not slow at all rendering on my relatively old Windows laptop. I was also surprised how well this works in Sony eLibrary on a Windows PC (emulates a PRS-700). This was again not slow at all, and the reflowing seemed to work and to be fast. Note that the fact that the reflow worked implies that this isn't a PDF of images.

The DR1000S approach is to zoom, rather than reflow, which means that it has to render the entire page again. The DR1000S has a slower processor than my PC, but not slower than, say, a Nokia Internet Tablet (which also has to render the entire page to zoom). So is this PDF intrinsically hard to display or is the DR1000S PDF implementation inefficient?