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Originally Posted by rmanasa
None of them, however address the basic problem with pdfs on the Reader: that the format cannot be magnified enough for the files to be truly readable. I have switched to landscape, which can help quite a bit, and there are many solutions for text only pdfs. But for anything with graphics, charts, cells, pictures or any other form of non-text content, the Reader is close to sufficient, at best.
I know I'm not alone in this. I also know that "it can't be done" is what I say when I just don't wanna or lack the necessary imagination to at least approach a problem. That doesn't describe the gurus on this forum, so I have to assume *somebody* is working on this.
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Warning: I am not a programmer.
Basically, you are talking about zoom functionality for image-based pdfs/lrf. Right? The problem is that Sony viewers in the Reader (i.e., the software in the Reader that displays pdf and lrf) does not have zoom. You can only zoom pictures in the picture viewer. So, no matter what you do with pdf or lrf files it will not help. There are two possible solutions to this:
1) Sony implements zoom functionality in its lrf/pdf viewers (pdf viewer is from Adobe, right) or releases source code for these programs so that somebody could add zoom.
2) Somebody writes a new Sony viewer from scratch based only on what we know so far about the system. It is a very complicated task to create a viewer that is at least as good as Sony's with added functionality. Right now, we know how to reflash the software on the Reader; however, Sony may close this opportunity any time with a new update, which would require time-consuming reverse engineering by igorsk and his crew.
This may become moot in a couple years when we have e-readers with larger screen sizes.