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Originally Posted by franklekens
Some pdfs look okay from the get go. (E.g. one pdf of an actual print book downloaded from archive.org.)
But here's a pdf that doesn't look so fine. ...
So basically, as far as I can see, for reading some PDFs the Elipsa is pretty rubbish. And that's not an inherent limitation of PDF reading per se (much as I hate PDF and would simply like to blame that file format for everything that's wrong with the world). ...
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Well, my experience with PDFs on Elipsa is mostly much more positive. But one thing to remember always, is GIGO - garbage in garbage out, and too many PDFs are outright garbage, particularly those massively digitalized by Google.
Also, before the advent of the 10.3" Kobo, the first thing I did with PDFs is cropping margins (I have Adobe Acrobat Pro) - which I did a bit too radically at the beginning which I now regret. The second is creating a TOC for that majority of PDFs which have none, or incomplete ones. And for decent otherwise PDFs we now have a perfectible but quite enjoyable way to read PDFs.
Thanks to the stylus, it is now easy to adjust the zoom level - which I found very difficult with my finger. I do hope geek1011 can patch this so we don't have to pan every new page.
And the fact I can now open dictionaries from a word is a big plus.
Kobo's way to deal with landscape reading is also a way around PDFs with ridiculously small pitch and/or pale fonts on grayish ground.