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Malder1 · 10-02-2006, 04:22 PM

I found way to vastly improve displaying of text on iLiad!

I love iLiad and the display is perfect, but I think that my iLiad can more:

I noticed that letters on virtual keyboard look more sharp than letters displayed in PDF textes. After long investigation I found that as in Acrobat Reader, iRead (in xPDF) uses simple bilinear resizing of text symbols and all letters a little blurred, not enough crisp, and gritty.

After this I captured screenshot of this text in Word to BMP image and then transferred file to iLiad. Note that I don't use ClearType.

I was totally impressed how good iLiad displayed same text as BMP file image now! Very crisp, but antialiased symbols! So you see that your iLiad can more!

If you will test this moment, note that image should be a little smaller than display to prevent resizing of an image.

The question.
How to prepare book in pre-rendered images? I don't know how to create PDF file with rightly calculated size of images to prevent resizing of BMP images.

I again should say that iLiad is amazing ebook, and I think that Sony/Hanlin uses same text rendering problem because Microsoft uses special high quality antialiasing of text.

10-02-2006, 04:22 PM	#1
Malder1 Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2006	I found way to vastly improve displaying of text! I found way to vastly improve displaying of text on iLiad! I love iLiad and the display is perfect, but I think that my iLiad can more: I noticed that letters on virtual keyboard look more sharp than letters displayed in PDF textes. After long investigation I found that as in Acrobat Reader, iRead (in xPDF) uses simple bilinear resizing of text symbols and all letters a little blurred, not enough crisp, and gritty. After this I captured screenshot of this text in Word to BMP image and then transferred file to iLiad. Note that I don't use ClearType. I was totally impressed how good iLiad displayed same text as BMP file image now! Very crisp, but antialiased symbols! So you see that your iLiad can more! If you will test this moment, note that image should be a little smaller than display to prevent resizing of an image. The question. How to prepare book in pre-rendered images? I don't know how to create PDF file with rightly calculated size of images to prevent resizing of BMP images. I again should say that iLiad is amazing ebook, and I think that Sony/Hanlin uses same text rendering problem because Microsoft uses special high quality antialiasing of text.