06-29-2006, 05:04 PM | #1 |
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New specs of Sony Reader published
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...me=specs&var2=
Media Formats Supported Unsecured Text - BBeB Book, Adobe® PDF, TXT, RFT, & Microsoft® Word (Conversion to the Reader-requires Word installed on your PC) Secured Text - BBeB Book Unsecured Audio - MP3192 and ACC Image - JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP Here is nothing new... http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/reader_specs.html |
06-29-2006, 05:38 PM | #2 | |
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If MS Word is required to convert everything, then this product is useless to me. |
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06-30-2006, 03:59 AM | #3 | |
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The Reader PDF is also described as close to PDF/A, which is based on PDF 1.4. That means that some later features probably won't be supported ... for example jpeg2000 compression and object streams (for improved compression). OpenType font embedding was, I believe, also to some extent an 1.6 feature. If the document you want to read uses those features, some kind of conversion appears to be necessary. And there is also the statement that there will be no support for reflowing: you will have to pan to read documents intended for page sizes large enough to make the text illegible at 'fit width' zoom. And of course there is always the implementation limits for any particular PDF reader version. But that would be nothing special to the Sony Reader: you'd have similar problems if you use Acrobat Reader 1.4. |
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06-30-2006, 04:24 AM | #4 | |
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If you want to translate Excel or Powerpoint files, you will need MS Office, and I think the CAT software converts them into XML before extracting the text. I guess this is what Sony eReader software will do: do the conversion for you (maybe into RTF, maybe into XML). BTW, Gameboy70, that's what I thought when I saw the new specs. I miss HTML heavily, tho. |
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word is only needed to convert doc files to sony reader format which is completely reasonable. Im not sure why everyone is reading into this that you have to have word to convert anything.
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07-06-2006, 06:54 PM | #10 |
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It occurs to me that if you don't have Word, then you're unlikely to have Word files to convert in the first place, so it seems the better question might be: what's necessary to read the files types you use.
Just a thought.... Or should I be reading this that Word is required to convert PDF's, TXT's and RTF's as well? That seems unlikely. Last edited by NatCh; 07-06-2006 at 06:57 PM. |
07-14-2006, 11:32 AM | #11 |
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Clarification on support of non-BBeB formats
I've come across some more details on support for non-BBeB file types:
It appears that you can just load your RTF, TXT and or PDF files onto an SD card (or Memory Stick), stick it in the reader slot, and go to town. PDFs really need to be sized to the screen, of course, and it's not yet clear what sort of zooming will apply to them (TXT & RTF can use the three available font sizes), but there you go. Apparently you do not have to convert to BBeB at all. In fact, the only files in BBeB format are supposed to be the ones from the Connect store. And anything you go out of your own way to convert, of course, if you enjoy that sort of pain. Theoretically, there may be some speed (and I'm guessing maybe battery life) benifit from running it through Sony's import routine, as it seems that it is supposed to kind of "pre-render" the file in some sort of cache (in either onboard or card memory) for display, but it doesn't convert it to BBeB format, the file remains in its previous format on the device (plus the cache). I find this encouraging, as I've long thought Sony has really got its hardware act together, so I'd actually feel a bit more of a comfort margin with their hardware. I'm still wondering about the DRM situation, but given the ability to completely avoid using the Connect store and BBeB format if I so choose is encouraging indeed. Especially when I'm still choking on the iLiad's price tag. (hem-hem) |
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Ok so for me it's clear, I will go for the Sony Reader. Only hope I can find a store that will ship to The Netherlands.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Sony would ship it to you there -- the shipping might be a bear, but, there you go.
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