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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Ken, could you go into more detail about the selection grids?
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OK, I have a number of the full page scan type PDFs that came off CDs
from "Backwoods Home Magazine". The current JBL firmware treats such
PDFs not as text files but like image files (no text selection, dictionary, or
search functions, no font selection just zoom). There are development
efforts underway at Ectaco to change the PDF and EPUB reading to a
different program (a version of ADE that also supports B&N), so this might
likely change with an update to the firmware at some point in the future.
(Of course you can run the firmware of your choice.)
The selection grid for PDF display is simply a numbered grid that lets you
select an area of the page to fill the screen with, by using the number keys
on the right side of the JBL. The first grid has nine elements.
Once you have selected a segment of the grid and are zoomed in to have
the segument fill the screen, you navigate to the adjacent segments with
the rocker/direction keys. This is quite a lot of zoom even for the nine
segment grid, so it is not always the best choice, but it is a quick way
around a large page.
I usually prefer to just use the 200% zoom in most cases.
Luck;
Ken