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Originally Posted by dwig
FALSE CONCLUSION!
The Nook uses Adobe Digital Editions software. Your test merely shows that there is likely a limitation in both the Nook's version and the desktop version. While it doesn't rule out a fault in the PDF file, it also doesn't show that there is no fault in the reader.
You are very likely running across a limitation in the PDF support in the ADE software since the file displays properly in Adobe Reader. The PDF file is likely a perfectly legitimate PDF.
I encountered the same symptoms with a PDF that I downloaded from the Internet Archive a while back. It displayed find in Adobe Reader on Windows but most pages were blank when viewed on my Kindle 3. Poking around with the PDF, I discovered that it used multiple layered images to display scanned text over an image of old paper pages.
The fix was to print the PDF from Adobe Reader using a PDF virtual printer driver (I use PrimoPDF, available free, but there are a number of others you could use). This created a "flattened" PDF that displayed fine on my Kindle. The resulting file was also much smaller. |
Um...Of course, a complex pdf will look fine on desktop, that's due to more processing power from your desktop cpu and desktop version of Acrobat has full support of transparencies. It is very clear that NT's reader doesn't support transparencies and I can replicate the problem 100% each time. Hence, I say the reader is "crappy".
There are a number of softwares that can flatten a pdf and reduce file size but almost all goes through a variation of Adobe's distiller. The so-called flattening processing is essentially rasterizing the effects and thus requires less processing power to display the page.