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Originally Posted by semioticwafture
Perhaps you can be persuaded to humour me in my (perhaps false) belief that that that particular requirement in itself isn't a problem (that belief is based on watching youtube videos of several e-ink based e-readers displaying PDFs in portrait mode [...]
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Now we are getting somewhere. I know you had other requirements for non-pdf and reading ebooks support. The small form factor is in fact a lot more important than pdf-support. I did not know that since it appears to me that size is only in the optional colums, but pdf appears right on top of your must-have list.
If someone says must support pdf, I am thinking that pdf means pdf that cannot be done any other format. Pdf has the beauty of having potentially extensively complicated layout, non-conventional text flow, pictures and graphics that must be inserted in and around certain passages of text or it won't make sence.
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Just to add: the PDFs I'll be reading will be mostly text, with a few diagrams.
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Plus you are saying you ARE willing to prepare
some of the pdf (e.g. cropping of margins if reader is perfect in any other requirement). So now we can concentrate on your ePub and other requirements.
As you can see from other peoples posts, they also believe that you wanted pdf support more than anything else. There still might be a pdf that are mostly text, and should be able to convert into text, but can't b/c no embedded font, text saved as image and so on. That would have to remain as pdf, but might still be readable in landscape on a smaller 6" screen and low resolution of 800x600 (as most 6") by pdf standards.