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ddave · 03-14-2009, 04:57 PM

I've been doing that for over the past several days at the local Borders and I've learned a few things. The screen refresh rate of the 505 with a PDF file is very slow, the 700 seemed to handle them better (probably due to the faster processor speed). With the 700 you can read the PDF either of 2 ways; 1) don't change the font size but use the zoom feature and the touchscreen allows the zoomed image to be pan'ed to look at the entire page. This was a little tedious. If the PDF is flowed (I haven't learned yet how to identify if this is true), the you can also change the font size. The problem with this approach is that some equations, figure captions and graphs may not flow with the text. I would like to develop a procedure that I can trust so that I can read scientific papers and technical documents.
I plan to investigate some programs that will reformat a PDF file.

I also tried looking at a RTF file I created with Microsoft Word. Although the text was readable, none of the images were displayed.

This is a work in progress. I warned the clerk at Borders that I'd be visiting there frequently.

03-14-2009, 04:57 PM	#10
ddave Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Minnesota, USA Device: none	I've been doing that for over the past several days at the local Borders and I've learned a few things. The screen refresh rate of the 505 with a PDF file is very slow, the 700 seemed to handle them better (probably due to the faster processor speed). With the 700 you can read the PDF either of 2 ways; 1) don't change the font size but use the zoom feature and the touchscreen allows the zoomed image to be pan'ed to look at the entire page. This was a little tedious. If the PDF is flowed (I haven't learned yet how to identify if this is true), the you can also change the font size. The problem with this approach is that some equations, figure captions and graphs may not flow with the text. I would like to develop a procedure that I can trust so that I can read scientific papers and technical documents. I plan to investigate some programs that will reformat a PDF file. I also tried looking at a RTF file I created with Microsoft Word. Although the text was readable, none of the images were displayed. This is a work in progress. I warned the clerk at Borders that I'd be visiting there frequently.