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jlg432 · 07-01-2011, 12:16 AM

My experience with PDF's whether DRM applied or not has been rather good.

I believe the default setting has "Text flow" on. As long as the document is not a picture like copy of the text I find that it does a good job. I have noticed that you may get several pages of text and then experience some blank space when you reach then end of the e-book page. The screen then fills up again on the e-book page. This can be verified if you turn "Text Flow" off and switch to "Full page view". In this setting each page advance will be a true full page advance. "Text flow on" allows you to view the text of the current page but at a cost of several screen pages. This a voids panning the screen back and forth by allowing the text to wrap around.

For example I have a James Patterson PDF e-book that has his name at the top of each even page and the title of the book at the top of each odd page. All pages have the page number at the bottom of the e-book page. This sometimes produces a screen page that may only have the page number on the first line and nothing else causing an extra page advance for the reader. That is the style of this e-book and when viewed on a larger screen where the whole page can be read it poses no problem. So yes it is annoying if you get an e-book that is formatted that way. On the other hand I have others that have a style that works better for the smaller screen and is not cut up as much the way Patterson's style does. James Patterson tends to create a lot of chapters that usually only have 1 or 2 pages of writing. His ePub books tend to flow better and do not have these issues from what I have seen.

Still "Text Flow" does a very good job of displaying PDF's designed for larger screens on the smaller screen of the JB/JBL or ALP.

I have tried processing that James Patterson PDF e-book through Calibre(DRM removed) but all it managed to do was insert his Name and book title along with the page numbers through out the story lines. The same happens if you try and convert it to ePub. It could be edited but then you are into a lot of extra work.

John

07-01-2011, 12:16 AM	#10
jlg432 Addict Posts: 237 Karma: 15786 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: jetBook, ALP, Pandigital 7"Color(Black+ White), Kyros MID7015a	My experience with PDF's whether DRM applied or not has been rather good. I believe the default setting has "Text flow" on. As long as the document is not a picture like copy of the text I find that it does a good job. I have noticed that you may get several pages of text and then experience some blank space when you reach then end of the e-book page. The screen then fills up again on the e-book page. This can be verified if you turn "Text Flow" off and switch to "Full page view". In this setting each page advance will be a true full page advance. "Text flow on" allows you to view the text of the current page but at a cost of several screen pages. This a voids panning the screen back and forth by allowing the text to wrap around. For example I have a James Patterson PDF e-book that has his name at the top of each even page and the title of the book at the top of each odd page. All pages have the page number at the bottom of the e-book page. This sometimes produces a screen page that may only have the page number on the first line and nothing else causing an extra page advance for the reader. That is the style of this e-book and when viewed on a larger screen where the whole page can be read it poses no problem. So yes it is annoying if you get an e-book that is formatted that way. On the other hand I have others that have a style that works better for the smaller screen and is not cut up as much the way Patterson's style does. James Patterson tends to create a lot of chapters that usually only have 1 or 2 pages of writing. His ePub books tend to flow better and do not have these issues from what I have seen. Still "Text Flow" does a very good job of displaying PDF's designed for larger screens on the smaller screen of the JB/JBL or ALP. I have tried processing that James Patterson PDF e-book through Calibre(DRM removed) but all it managed to do was insert his Name and book title along with the page numbers through out the story lines. The same happens if you try and convert it to ePub. It could be edited but then you are into a lot of extra work. John