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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
The example I'm using is Home Power Magazine, issues distributed in PDF format on CDs. In this case, the PDFs are tagged... that is, it's not a page image like a traditional PDF, but ISO-compliant tagged text on the page (images don't move or change). Properly-tagged PDFs can reflow text, which is why PDFs can be read on different-sized devices like PDAs and smartphones (with actual Adobe Reader software). And the problems with them are problems I've seen many times over the years reading tagged PDFs, usually caused by font issues, low memory issues, or substandard non-Adobe PDF viewers.
Because of at least one of the limitations above, the text comes out garbled when the files are viewed on the iPad. Usually it takes the form of a line of text being broken into 2 or 3 sections, then "shuffled around" on the line so that letters and words from section 3, say, overlap those of section 1, section 1 may overlap part of section 2, etc, making the entire line unreadable.
On the NC, the same files displayed perfectly. |
Yeah I wish I would have seen that line, I thought you had problems reading PDF on any device Nook/iPad.
I spent some time downloading the PDF file to see if it worked on my Nook, and as you mentioned yep it works just fine.
BTW I have seen some of the overlapping issues and misalignment as you mentioned on different. Reflowing is not perfect there are going to be PDFs that trip up any reflow engine. At this point however I know ahead of time what patterns are going to cause the failure.
In my experience however repligo PDF rendering engine is second only to Adobe, by a small margin. However the features RepliGo provides are far better than Adobe.
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