10-22-2014, 07:13 PM | #1 |
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Kindle Voyage and PDFs?
Has anyone tried PDFs on the Voyage yet? If so, how did it go?
I recently looked at a variety of PDFs on an Aura HD and was surprised at how readable the tiny printing was and how easy and convenient it was to zoom and pan. But page turning was fiddly because of no page turn buttons. I had trouble avoiding panning when I was trying to turn pages and sometimes vice versa. |
10-24-2014, 12:33 PM | #2 |
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So no Voyage users have anything to say about PDFs on the Voyage?
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10-24-2014, 12:50 PM | #3 |
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Sorry, most of us hate PDFs on eInk readers. I hate PDFs even on tablets and computers. I can say that PDFs on the PW1 and PW2 were horrible, and I doubt the rendering engine has changed at all for the Voyage, so expect a clunky interface. However the text will be better due to the higher resolution.
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10-24-2014, 04:45 PM | #4 |
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Well, I just tried a PDF that I had in my cloud--it's just a straight forward fiction book that I was sent as an advance copy by an author, but I can say that the experience on my Voyage was better than on my PW2. I could zoom by double tapping, and pinch zoom works too. There was no issue turning pages with the "buttons" when I did double-tap zoom, but if I did pinch zoom they didn't work until I zoomed back out. Panning works as well as it does on any other e-ink device, which isn't saying much.
Hope this helps. Shari |
10-24-2014, 06:18 PM | #5 | |
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That answers just about all the questions I have about PDFs on the Voyage. I'll assume the page turn buttons work when there has been no zooming since they work on zoomed pages. It will be ironic if they work on PDFs in landscape mode. |
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10-24-2014, 06:24 PM | #6 |
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PDF is poor on any eInk Reader of 6". Just treat PDF like it doesn't exist.
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10-24-2014, 06:54 PM | #7 | |
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Very few of the PDFs I am interested in reading are better than poor on a Kindle DXG, but some are OK even on a 600x800 screen. Those should be even better on a Voyage screen. My one experience with PDF on an Aura HD was much less miserable than I thought it would be. Why am I not entitled to be curious about the details of the PDF experience on a Voyage? I have much greater success treating microsoft like it doesn't exist than I would with PDF. |
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10-26-2014, 07:40 PM | #10 | |
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The PDF at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283 has a page size about 5.4"x8" (9.7" diagonal) and might look OK on a Voyage, even without margin trim or zoom and pan. Of course margin trim and zoom might also help. The PDF at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41008 was customized by the uploader for a Sony PRS-505 screen. It has a page size approximately 3.6"x4.8" and a margin possibly too small even for you. About 3 years ago I tried to add a small margin. The result is uploaded here. Last edited by j.p.s; 10-26-2014 at 08:02 PM. Reason: spelling |
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10-26-2014, 08:09 PM | #11 |
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I really like the margin trim, fit to width, and pick corners with stylus on the M92. The SD card and folder support are also very nice. But sometimes the font is still too samll for me and I find zoom and pan awkward on the M92.
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10-30-2014, 01:27 PM | #12 |
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Voyage pdf review:
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...-review-video/ |
10-31-2014, 11:02 AM | #13 |
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PDFs on an e-ink device should only have an issue if you need to zoom or scroll. If it is perfectly readable at full-page, then the only interface is page turn (like printed pages). I think if your eyesight is good, then a 6" at fullscreen may be okay for 8.5x11 PDFs, but you may need to take breaks. One thing pdf readers can improve upon is better margin detection and automatic cropping of them, which I don't know if any does well (my only experience is with a K3).
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It also seems that the page turn buttons do not work in landscape regardless of book file type. |
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