Point 1... read my statement, it says 505-650... this means Sony eReaders PRS-505 up to and including PRS-650... clear.
Point2... check out many, many comments, details and other information... a pdf is not the same as every other pdf... there are many ways to make pdfs that don't use Adobe tools, there are many ways to make apparently working pdfs that don't meet the specifications of pdf and there are many pdfs that will work on some platforms but not others, especially if the one that fails happens to implement a more accurate version of the pdf reading software...
It makes a huge difference as to whether it's 999 jpgs, commercial or otherwise... PDFs allow the inclusion of images in documents but were never intended to hold hundreds of page sized jpgs, apart from anything else, this is far more memory intensive and eReaders don't actually have vast amounts of working ram.
3. Have just visited your referred site and these are exactly the sort of pdfs that do cause problems because they are rarely standard pdfs.
4. Probably, if produced to the same "standard"
Doesn't alter the fact that correctly produced pdfs work fine... I've had a 1950 page pdf that worked just great but it had actual text and not page sized jpgs... also meant things like dictionary and searches worked as well... and this is on a PRS-505, a PRS-600, a PRS 350 and a PRS-650... funnily enough it also works fine on an iRiver, an Elonex colour, an Android Tablet and every computer I've put them on... because it's not a bunch of jpgs stuck together in a pdf...
And I'm not saying the files you tried were all jpgs stuck together, could just as easily be a load of web pages/html badly put together as a pdf... point being that just because it works on some equipment and not on others, doesn't automatically make it an equipment fault, it's just as easily a failure to adhere to standards... try remaking the pdf yourself to improve it, plenty of free and paid tools around...
Edit: just seen your update... Word is notorious for putting unwanted junk in pdfs and screwing them up...
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Originally Posted by cybmole
the reader gets the blame because the files open OK on PC , OK on Kindle, not on Sony reader Q>E>D>
1. we are talking about a PRS-650 here not a 505 or 605
2. surely .pdf format is .pdf format - how it was made should be irrelevant as far as the reader goes- it should not matter whether a PDF is commercial or is made by me sticking 999 jpg files together . both comply to the same spec & both should be supported.- or the hardware should have a declared file size or number of images limit that is documented.
3. FYI I tried to use were downloaded from here
http://guides.gamepressure.com/
4. I have other guides by other publishers e.g. prima eguides that I could test with but I'd bet on getting the same page error issue every time. |