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Originally Posted by Graham
I hope it works for you, Mastiff, but for me that makes the text of the PDFs I read too small. It's exactly equivalent to turning my netbook sideways. The PDF doesn't fill the screen in that mode, if you want a full page. You get about an inch of black space at the top and bottom. Cropping to the margins helps a little, but not enough.
If I do use my 10.1" 1024x600 netbook to read PDFs I use landscape mode, which gives a reasonable text size. but I only get about a third of the page on the screen. The PDFs I read tend to have at least two columns, with images inset, and that leads to a lot of scrolling around the page on the netbook. Admittedly that would be slightly easier with a touchscreen, but those extra 168 pixels make quite a difference, held either as portrait or landscape.
Graham
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If you are going to be using an Android device, check out ezPDF. It supports tap-to-zoom into a single column of multi-column pages. Another tap will take you from the bottom of one column to the top of the next. If there are images spanning multiple columns, that still may be result in some manual panning around, however.
Not an ideal solution, but ezPDF does make PDF viewing comfortable for me on a small screen.