Picture time!
http://picasaweb.google.com/gentili....cketbookPro902
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Originally Posted by SkyDream
Do you have the latest FW installed ? I've heard they fixed a few issue just before the first shipment.
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Yes... I think. I'd like to be proven wrong though. You see, firmware version 20101110 is available to download from
this page. My pocketbook shows version 2010116, i.e. a newer firmware?!? This is confusing... see it for yourself on
this picture.
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Originally Posted by repods
ok.. but with the pdf zoomed is it ok ?
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Zooming is fine; scrolling a zoomed PDF, on the other hand, not as much.
This is a newspaper page I zoomed in, so that I could read the fine print better:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink
You can see that part of the text is now outside the screen. Well, I can't scroll left or right to see that text since the left and right buttons on the D-Pad are mapped to "previous page" and "next page" (another firmware issue?). I can scroll down and up though, but not by small amounts. When I tap "down" once, the page is scrolled all the way down. This is what I see then:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink
So, right now, the best way to read a newspaper is to turn the device sideways, like this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink
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Originally Posted by rhari79
How about simpler pdfs? These devices tend to have some limitations..
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They're much better. See the device displaying this PDF:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink
You don't really need to zoom it, but if you did, a 110% would suffice to remove the white padding around the text. It can be reflown, too!
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink
The pocketbook does a wonderful job with this PDF, in my opinion.
I believe that images are upscaled using the "nearest neighbor" algorithm which is kinda low quality compared to bicubic or bilinear resampling methods. But then again I don't know if e-readers possess enough computing power to accomplish bicubic resampling.