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geekraver · 08-12-2006, 12:43 AM

BTW for those concerned about lack of HTML support, you can use HTMLDOC to convert to PDF. This has the added benefit of giving you a lot of control over how the PDF is formatted. Most of what I want to read is either native PDF or HTML converted to PDF. The support for tables is pretty broken but otherwise HTMLDOC does a good job.

I'm very pleased that Sony is including the ability to rotate the screen, as much of what I read is technical papers or books and I suspect that they would suffer at 600x800 portrait. On the Nokia 770 I read in landscape more and its acceptable; the extra lines (from 480 to 600) will be a boon on the Sony.

What would be even better would be if Sony supported PDF reflow but that is probably expecting too much. I wonder what would happen if you used the Adobe PDF reader on a VGA enabled Pocket PC and reflowed the PDFs, then put them on the SOny? That would be an interesting experiment.

08-12-2006, 12:43 AM	#29
geekraver Addict Posts: 364 Karma: 1035291 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Redmond, WA Device: iPad Mini,Kindle Paperwhite	HTML BTW for those concerned about lack of HTML support, you can use HTMLDOC to convert to PDF. This has the added benefit of giving you a lot of control over how the PDF is formatted. Most of what I want to read is either native PDF or HTML converted to PDF. The support for tables is pretty broken but otherwise HTMLDOC does a good job. I'm very pleased that Sony is including the ability to rotate the screen, as much of what I read is technical papers or books and I suspect that they would suffer at 600x800 portrait. On the Nokia 770 I read in landscape more and its acceptable; the extra lines (from 480 to 600) will be a boon on the Sony. What would be even better would be if Sony supported PDF reflow but that is probably expecting too much. I wonder what would happen if you used the Adobe PDF reader on a VGA enabled Pocket PC and reflowed the PDFs, then put them on the SOny? That would be an interesting experiment.