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kindlematic · 07-26-2010, 10:27 AM

I'm glad I'm not the only one concerned about this.
I've just bought the DX Graphite, and while I am quite happy about the screen contrast, I can't help noticing all the problems with PDFs. My primary use is for academic journals; books available in PDF and subscriptions to magazines not sold by Amazon from other countries. While I can appreciate that PDF as a format was not designed with e-readers in mind, I wonder whether there are specific technical limitations blocking Amazon from implementing the following:

- improved rendering of serif fonts (a LOT of fonts used in PDFs look very low-definition on the Kindle, grey instead than black)
- more flexible zoom options (so that I don't have to crop manually most of my documents)
- allowing users to mantain the position of the magnified lens across pages (so you don't need to move it around again, every new page)
- full screen (so to gain 0.5 inch in the screen)
- recognition of landscape-oriented docs (such as slides, so that one doesn't have to manually rotate them before loading them to gain good readability in landscape mode)
- toc (honestly, most of the documents I use don't have it)

I can understand that text reflow can be problematic with magazines and other documents on multiple columns, but by fixing some of the issues above, reflow would become less of an issue

Is any of this hard to implement?
Are there "secret" commands I am missing?

I'd love to work collaboratively on this issue, trying to create a list of needed features, if anyone is interested. Otherwise I might as well return the device and hope someone else comes up with a better support. I really *want* to like the Kindle, by the way!

07-26-2010, 10:27 AM	#9
kindlematic Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: kindle dxg	I'm glad I'm not the only one concerned about this. I've just bought the DX Graphite, and while I am quite happy about the screen contrast, I can't help noticing all the problems with PDFs. My primary use is for academic journals; books available in PDF and subscriptions to magazines not sold by Amazon from other countries. While I can appreciate that PDF as a format was not designed with e-readers in mind, I wonder whether there are specific technical limitations blocking Amazon from implementing the following: - improved rendering of serif fonts (a LOT of fonts used in PDFs look very low-definition on the Kindle, grey instead than black) - more flexible zoom options (so that I don't have to crop manually most of my documents) - allowing users to mantain the position of the magnified lens across pages (so you don't need to move it around again, every new page) - full screen (so to gain 0.5 inch in the screen) - recognition of landscape-oriented docs (such as slides, so that one doesn't have to manually rotate them before loading them to gain good readability in landscape mode) - toc (honestly, most of the documents I use don't have it) I can understand that text reflow can be problematic with magazines and other documents on multiple columns, but by fixing some of the issues above, reflow would become less of an issue Is any of this hard to implement? Are there "secret" commands I am missing? I'd love to work collaboratively on this issue, trying to create a list of needed features, if anyone is interested. Otherwise I might as well return the device and hope someone else comes up with a better support. I really want to like the Kindle, by the way!