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Originally Posted by taosaur
Actually, the existing norm appears to be that people read pbook-derived PDFs on screens large enough to accommodate them (typically LCDs), so the standard already exists: a hardcover book. While there's variation among hardcovers, 95% will display with good fidelity on a 10" widescreen display, which also seems to hit a lot of people's sweet spot for portability-vs-screen-real-estate in a laptop. EInk devices have difficulty with PDFs because the hardware isn't suitable for displaying...books.
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From what I understand, the hardware vs. PDF problems are generally from overly complex PDFs. Perhaps PDFs that are going the extra mile to mitigate the perceive "limitations" of PDFs.
A PDF that is properly prepared for display (as opposed to for printing--the main difference being that there should only be 1-2 layers at most, and for display more things might be better suited to be pictures as opposed to overcomplex vector stuff) should display just fine with even 2nd generation eBook device hardware.
It's the sort of PDFs that are ultra-detailed so as to be (whether purposefully or unintentionally) printable at several multiples of the intended display size without quality loss that I imagine would bring poor Sony Readers and Cybooks alike to an unceremonious halt.
Or do I have it wrong?
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