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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Yes, and no. Adobe makes a program (that only runs on closed, proprietary systems) that takes a PDF, reformats it into something even more useless and unreadable, and puts it into a Palm file. Then they wrote a program that runs on the Palm that can read this useless file.
Run Adobe's free reader on the Palm, then try to open a PDF you've put on your SD card. It won't work.
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I don't use the Palm any more, so I can't perform the test. But PDF files work just fine off an SD card on my Pocket PC. I think it is hard to assess where the deficiency lies....Is this a deficiency with Palm, with the Palm software or with the PDF format?
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Originally Posted by RLAUZON
No, I think it's the bloated file size (compare 300K for a mobipocket book to 1500K for the same PDF) and the fact that PDFs don't display correctly on the current crop of eBook readers (tagged or otherwise) that have led many to believe that it's not suitable.
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I have not compared a book in a Mobipocket format to the same book in a PDF format, so I can't speak to this comment, but I will look at it and see for myself if this is true. I disagree with the second sentence you state as accepted fact....I read many PDF books and they display perfectly on my Pocket PC. The fact that eBook reader devices do not accommodate tags and so cannot reflow properly is a deficiency in the eBook reader device and not with the PDF format.
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Originally Posted by RLAUZON
I don't. I blame PDF for being a locked down, bloated format.
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I don't think the PDF format is any more locked down than any other format. It may be bloated, but file size does not concern me that much, there are always storage cards that I can use to store my files, so I don't feel such a big need to conserve space.
To speak to an earlier point about how much larger tagged files are versus untagged files, I performed a test. I took a large PDF book that was untagged and ran Adobe Acrobat's tag option on it. The file size changed from 39,188 KB to 40,646 KB. I don't see this as a significant difference, do you?