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wgrimm · 10-28-2006, 01:36 AM

Has anyone noticed that the PRS-500 has VERY POOR support for pdf's? I have spent a couple of days testing existing pdf's and re-distilling pdf's and most cannot be read on the reader, despite tweaking page size etc.

Don't believe the Sony reader's advertising "native pdf support." I can see that I will have to spend massive amounts of time to get pdf content (let alone anything in html, pdb, or chm) onto this reader, and I am very disappointed. Same thing happened with the Gemstar device (I own 2 of them), and this whole thing is starting to remind me of Gemstar's attempt to get you to buy "content." I've already spent much time over the years acquiring decent pdf conversion software like BCL and Iceni Gemini, but I really don't want to spend time to convert pdf's to another format so that I can look at them on the prs-500.

Sorry, not all of what I want on a portable reader will be bought from the Connect store. I am extremely disappointed. Sony needs to do something to fix this poor pdf support.

10-28-2006, 01:36 AM	#1
wgrimm Addict Posts: 230 Karma: 334908 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: multiple	SONY PRS-500 PDF Support Has anyone noticed that the PRS-500 has VERY POOR support for pdf's? I have spent a couple of days testing existing pdf's and re-distilling pdf's and most cannot be read on the reader, despite tweaking page size etc. Don't believe the Sony reader's advertising "native pdf support." I can see that I will have to spend massive amounts of time to get pdf content (let alone anything in html, pdb, or chm) onto this reader, and I am very disappointed. Same thing happened with the Gemstar device (I own 2 of them), and this whole thing is starting to remind me of Gemstar's attempt to get you to buy "content." I've already spent much time over the years acquiring decent pdf conversion software like BCL and Iceni Gemini, but I really don't want to spend time to convert pdf's to another format so that I can look at them on the prs-500. Sorry, not all of what I want on a portable reader will be bought from the Connect store. I am extremely disappointed. Sony needs to do something to fix this poor pdf support.