Thread: Foxit eSlick, New eInk based reader for $229
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Old 12-29-2008, 06:11 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by gylman View Post
The final question in mind then is why Adobe provided such a dumbed down version of their software to Sony?
Sony has pretty much exactly what the Desktop Adobe Digital Editions has (at least for ePub, I'm less sure about PDF). The Desktop version was dumbed down because Adobe is delivering it as a Flash application. I don't know if this required them to simplify the feature list or if this was just a time to market issue. To be fair to ADE, it is the only in-line PDF reflowing capability on a current EInk device and it does also deliver a full page view. What most people want is a "full page but margins clipped" view and conventional zoomed page views in addition to reflowing options. This is apparently what Foxit will provide, but the devil is in the details so we will have to wait to see if they bring this off.
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