MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Classic Can someone review nook's PDF support?

Doug Pardee · 07-09-2010, 05:46 PM

No change. PDF support is limited.

Viewing at "small" font size gives you the full page shrunken down to fit the screen. Viewing at a larger font size causes all of the various text pieces to be yanked from the PDF, scaled up, and displayed in a best-guess as to the correct sequence. Line breaks, paragraph breaks, and page breaks mangle the presentation, and header and footer lines will be interspersed.

Bookmarks, highlights, notes, dictionary, and text font style are non-functional in PDF.

Small-screen e-readers are simply a poor fit for PDF. PDF is a page-layout format, and unless the page was laid out to fit the small screen (like BeBook does), the result will necessarily be different from what the page creator intended.

07-09-2010, 05:46 PM	#17
Doug Pardee Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 106318 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: B&N NOOK 3G	No change. PDF support is limited. Viewing at "small" font size gives you the full page shrunken down to fit the screen. Viewing at a larger font size causes all of the various text pieces to be yanked from the PDF, scaled up, and displayed in a best-guess as to the correct sequence. Line breaks, paragraph breaks, and page breaks mangle the presentation, and header and footer lines will be interspersed. Bookmarks, highlights, notes, dictionary, and text font style are non-functional in PDF. Small-screen e-readers are simply a poor fit for PDF. PDF is a page-layout format, and unless the page was laid out to fit the small screen (like BeBook does), the result will necessarily be different from what the page creator intended. Last edited by Doug Pardee; 07-09-2010 at 06:17 PM.