MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Firmware Update Do people think reflow will be available for pdf files?

Francesco · 10-03-2010, 10:23 PM

I had an ereader that had reflowing capabilities for PDFs. The result was unpleasant 75% of the time. It depends on the "insides" of the PDF. What you see is not what you get. It's hard to explain, but let me try. You can have a nice looking PDF, but when you try to copy text from it, all you get in your clipboard is garbage. That garbage is what would be reflowed. And even when it's not garbage, but text, the result looks terrible, i.e., the space between words is not uniform, one letter overlapping the next, etc. Well, at least that's my experience with the PB360.

10-03-2010, 10:23 PM	#4
Francesco Aficionado Posts: 391 Karma: 710 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Denver, CO, USA Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Touch	I had an ereader that had reflowing capabilities for PDFs. The result was unpleasant 75% of the time. It depends on the "insides" of the PDF. What you see is not what you get. It's hard to explain, but let me try. You can have a nice looking PDF, but when you try to copy text from it, all you get in your clipboard is garbage. That garbage is what would be reflowed. And even when it's not garbage, but text, the result looks terrible, i.e., the space between words is not uniform, one letter overlapping the next, etc. Well, at least that's my experience with the PB360.