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Old 07-30-2010, 12:01 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by oecherprinte View Post
Hi,

I usually have to carry around tons of legal texts in paper which are also available in pdf. So my question is how those texts might appear on the kindle3. They are currently available for the A4 paper format. How will they look when they are "reflowed" for the kindle3 screen?

I read that there are kindle readers for windows and mac. Will those readers render the pdf the same way the kindle3 does? Which other ways are there to simulate the pdf behaviour kindle? I could imagine that this works when I choose a viewport size of 800x600 px.

Thanks and best regards,

Jens
The re-flow PDF feature you are talking about is more of an Amazon service. This works by your emailing your PDF to your kindle account. The charge is about $.15USD. If you put the word "Convert" in the subject (I just found this out yesterday) it will convert your PDF to a MOBI. If you do not it will send you the unmodified PDF and still charge you .$15.

For text base PDF with simple formatting this feature works great. However if it is a more complicated PDF the results will be unsatisfactory.


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Now if we are talking about how K3 handles PDF then. The K3 is not out yet so there is no hands on advice I can give you but from their site they say.
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Improved PDF Reader
Now with new dictionary lookup, notes and highlights, and support for password protected PDFs. Easily carry all of your documents on the go.
I'm guessing their PDF is much like the K2 but with the additional features mentioned above. I do not believe it will have PDF reflow, not a loss in my opinion. PDF re-flow is great on my 3" screen blackberry, but horrible on my 6" screen SONY.


The way the current K2 works is it renders the full PDF on the page. So it would shrink an A4 page size down to a 6" screen. This is pretty hard to read. There are work around, some tools here do a nice job of reformatting PDF to fit on a 6", but none look as good as the original and the do take time to configure. Also the K2/K3 have zoom where you can zoom into a page.

My honest advice is go for the DX, especially if most of the documents are A4 PDF. You will save lots of time, by not having to reformat/zoom to read you PDF.

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