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Old 04-23-2008, 09:19 AM   #121
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by WillAdams View Post
If it's plain text and the source is readily available, it's quite easy for a person to make a .pdf which will display quite nicely on a reader (or some other sort of ebook format) --- the problem only arises when someone for some reason has taken text, flowed it into a .pdf and failed to size / format it for the current, small-size, e-ink screens.
That's essentially it.

What many people could use, IMHO, is an app that would essentially take a file (say, an RTF or HTML file, something fairly universal) and do the "hard work" of converting it to a PDF optimized for your particular device and screen size (really, just automating the process for the user). In fact, it's been my opinion that every maker of a reader, HW or SW, should include such an app to convert other file formats to their own wherever possible (in other words, DRM-permitting).

How easy all our lives would be!

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