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EldRick · 02-13-2011, 10:56 PM

A lot of folks have commented that the DXG is suitable for PDFs, due to the large screen, but no-one seems to have mentioned that the PDF support is buggier than an anthill.

Completely ignoring the lack of PDF "features" that have been mentioned (contrast adjustment, passwords, etc), my experience with it was that it stalled and froze the DXG on large PDFs with tables and images, and required frequent power-button restarts after locking up the DXG when trying to open several PDF files that I tried, which opened error-free in various PDF readers on Windows and Mac.

IMHO, Amazon has done a miserable job of supporting the product with software, and I returned the one I bought.

I also gave it a 1-rating on Amazon, which I'm sure they could care less about.

The DXG is the only thing that I ever bought from Amazon that annoyed me massively - it's a buggy, incomplete botch.

02-13-2011, 10:56 PM	#131
EldRick Evangelist Posts: 470 Karma: 112801 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Aura H2O (i86, M96C, Mini&Glo, PRS-950, STR, K-Touch, K-DX, K-3)	A lot of folks have commented that the DXG is suitable for PDFs, due to the large screen, but no-one seems to have mentioned that the PDF support is buggier than an anthill. Completely ignoring the lack of PDF "features" that have been mentioned (contrast adjustment, passwords, etc), my experience with it was that it stalled and froze the DXG on large PDFs with tables and images, and required frequent power-button restarts after locking up the DXG when trying to open several PDF files that I tried, which opened error-free in various PDF readers on Windows and Mac. IMHO, Amazon has done a miserable job of supporting the product with software, and I returned the one I bought. I also gave it a 1-rating on Amazon, which I'm sure they could care less about. The DXG is the only thing that I ever bought from Amazon that annoyed me massively - it's a buggy, incomplete botch.