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Originally Posted by Jim Chapman
That is true, sadly. The problem is that reading PDFs is complex, and the only good code library for doing it is open source (GPL). Because Freda is not an open source application, I cannot use that library. The alternative code libraries are either very expensive, or rather flaky. Actually, I did try using one of the latter, but I subsequently abandoned it, because it did too messy a job of decoding PDF documents (words broken up or spliced together oddly, tables laid out at random, images appearing in the wrong places or not at all, page numbers and headers popping up where you did not want to see them ... ).
But if you want to read a PDF book that is already in your Calibre library, you could consider using Calibre's conversion feature, to convert it into EPUB. That will give decent results (certainly much better than Freda's attempts at presenting PDF content, back when Freda used to attempt to display PDF content).
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Yeah, I understand. But unfortunately the tablet I am using is a Yoga Book C930, which in addition to the normal screen has an e-ink screen, but that e-ink screen *only* displays PDFs..... not a problem, I thought, I can just convert in Calibre and download the PDF version instead of the epub.....
It's a shame you can't make Freda open source because I think the open source libraries work pretty well, but I do understand - mine is a bit of an edge case..