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Originally Posted by Tuna
With the best will in the world a 9.7" screen is not a comfortable size for standard pdf documents (assuming your company uses PDF and not word etc) - it's half letter size and by all accounts has trouble displaying documents properly.
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Well, I actually have a DX, and my experience over the last 24 hours or so has been much different. Like I said, I bought it primarily for the pdf support, so I've put put a bunch of pdfs on it of various types to see how they work. I've tried scanned pdfs, pdfs with lots of images, including ones that are just detailed maps, an anatomy text, math texts with lots of equations, computer texts with lots of diagrams, tables, code blocks, screen shots, and custom layout, a sky atlas (scanned), work pdfs converted from .doc files and latex source, pdfs of API documentation (MATLAB), and pdfs containing schematics.
In all cases, the DX displayed them exactly the way they look on paper or on my computer screen (albeit not in color). They are very readable in portrait mode (which actually surprised me, based on the reviews and pictures on the web), and those with smaller text are fine in landscape mode. The fact that the DX automatically trims off the blank margins helps.
My main complaint is navigation. Since the links in the documents are not clickable, the tables of contents are mostly useless. You can go to a specific page number in the DX, but the DX page numbers rarely correspond to the page numbers in the TOC, so that's not very useful. I've had to resort to creating bookmarks for all the chapters, which is a pain and doesn't work that well for things like API documentation.
Overall though, it was well worth the $.