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Old 09-11-2010, 11:34 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Yes, that's true, for example, of any book that you download from Google books. Although it's a page scan, it also has OCR'd text in it, which can be searched for, highlighted, copied, etc. On occasions the OCR is, however, rather poor.
So, if I understand you correctly, the PDF contains both image data, which determines the font presentation, and separate, overlayed text information?

But even if this is so, if I zoom in the page, the fonts become perfectly crisp, and if I view the page on a computer monitor, the fonts are crisp. So it must be something to do with the scaling/rendering of the page at the iPad's resolution, right?
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