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parkher · 12-09-2010, 04:55 PM

pdf is a document with a fixed size, and therefore it is not possible to zoom it.
Even on a PC you can't zoom pdf - if you zoom it, you zoom also the margins, you cannot zoom it in such a way that white margins would contract while the text is expanding.
PDF is like a picture, and margins are parts of the picture.

On PocketBook, you can re-flow pdfs and zoom afterwards.
But the result is not always good - sometimes there are no margins left at all.
Perhaps this issue can be easily fixed in future firmwares.

BTW, if you yourself generate PDFs (convert latex to pdf, for example), you can make them fit PocketBook 902 perfectly. You can chose everything: the page size, font sizes, line spacing, margin sizes.

If you already have pdfs, you can scale them or re-flow them with special tools before using on PocketBook, or to convert (sometimes not fully) to a diffirent format.
I myself have lots of pdfs and am looking for some simple way to deal with them.
The ideal solution would be to have a script and make batch re-scaling for PocketBook.
Perhaps someone already solved it for some other ebook readers.

12-09-2010, 04:55 PM	#44
parkher Evangelist Posts: 467 Karma: 369018 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: BL Alita/Mimas/Ares, OB Note2/Note, KA One/H2O/HD, S PRS T2/T1, PB 902	pdf is a document with a fixed size, and therefore it is not possible to zoom it. Even on a PC you can't zoom pdf - if you zoom it, you zoom also the margins, you cannot zoom it in such a way that white margins would contract while the text is expanding. PDF is like a picture, and margins are parts of the picture. On PocketBook, you can re-flow pdfs and zoom afterwards. But the result is not always good - sometimes there are no margins left at all. Perhaps this issue can be easily fixed in future firmwares. BTW, if you yourself generate PDFs (convert latex to pdf, for example), you can make them fit PocketBook 902 perfectly. You can chose everything: the page size, font sizes, line spacing, margin sizes. If you already have pdfs, you can scale them or re-flow them with special tools before using on PocketBook, or to convert (sometimes not fully) to a diffirent format. I myself have lots of pdfs and am looking for some simple way to deal with them. The ideal solution would be to have a script and make batch re-scaling for PocketBook. Perhaps someone already solved it for some other ebook readers. Last edited by parkher; 12-09-2010 at 05:22 PM.