MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

zetareticuli · 07-26-2010, 01:54 PM

Kindlematic, let me ask you something about the DXG's current PDF support. Is it just good enough to read most technial PDFs? I am considering buying one and I am trying to decide. What is your opinion on that?

As far as better support for PDFs and other neat features, yes, I am willing to put in development time to make improvements and share with the community free of charge. Now, for that we need the SDK to be good and stable enough and to support all the features. We need to sort of "jailbreak it" in a sense. I agree that Amazon cannot ignore that if it plans to reach a broader range of technical users with the DXG. Documents in the scientific world are ruled by PDF.

I don't see any other device right now that has a large screen good enough for PDF and it is eInk. Pocketbook 901 has been announced but it will be a few months. Pocketbook is famous for their excellent PDF support. I am sure that is also going to be on the 901 model.

07-26-2010, 01:54 PM	#12
zetareticuli Addict Posts: 367 Karma: 228 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Aztak Mentor	Kindlematic, let me ask you something about the DXG's current PDF support. Is it just good enough to read most technial PDFs? I am considering buying one and I am trying to decide. What is your opinion on that? As far as better support for PDFs and other neat features, yes, I am willing to put in development time to make improvements and share with the community free of charge. Now, for that we need the SDK to be good and stable enough and to support all the features. We need to sort of "jailbreak it" in a sense. I agree that Amazon cannot ignore that if it plans to reach a broader range of technical users with the DXG. Documents in the scientific world are ruled by PDF. I don't see any other device right now that has a large screen good enough for PDF and it is eInk. Pocketbook 901 has been announced but it will be a few months. Pocketbook is famous for their excellent PDF support. I am sure that is also going to be on the 901 model. Last edited by zetareticuli; 07-26-2010 at 01:56 PM.