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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Do you really like the PDF support? I've tried legally purchased ones, so quality of my sources shouldn't be an issue.
But: ePUB is reflowed, PDF is zoomed. When using small zoomlevels, PDFs "fade out". The letters simply are "too thin" and loose their outline.
ePUB works way better.
I guess, the display simply is too small to handle letters below a certain dimension. Would have expected differently, dpi ratio being bigger than with the 6" units.
Meaning: Either I have too few lines in PDFs or the letters "fade out". I'll keep trying other PDFs. But so far, for all the same. If I can't find any kind of optimisation, Opus will become my sole ePUB unit and I'll do without PDF.
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PDFs I used were complex, some had 2 or more columns with graphics, and I had good results with the opus. Generally I would not load PDFs that are straight forward 1 column text documents, I would convert them to a better format that the opus can handle.
It would be nice if we get ability to reflow, but even with that you wont get the same reflow result on all PDFs.
In reality I was not expecting much of use for PDFs on a 5 inch screen, but I was happy to see what the opus can do for its size, this is why I reported on the speedy loading time and the nice landscape zoom rather than the actual reading experience this is because the problem is not with the reader as much as it is inherent with PDFs.
This is from mobileread wiki:
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Most dedicated eBook Readers claim support for PDF but most do a poor job of delivering on the promise due to the basic problem of attempting to read a 14" diagonal page on a 6" diagonal device. Of course the larger devices (8" and above) have an easier time of it but there are some notable attempts on smaller devices.
The main approach is to display the whole page on the screen which is fine to get an idea about what the page looks like but impossible to read. Even removing the margins and just showing the text does little to improve the situation. Switching to landscape mode and splitting the page in two helps but is not enough to make a readable document on a device of less that 8".
The Sony PRS505 uses reflow to solve the problem for documents that lend themselves to this solution (dominantly text documents). The Bookeen Cybook Gen3 attacks the problem by permitting the user to zoom in and then pan around on the page in fixed increments. This permits viewing a large document page but becomes too cumbersome if you were to try and read a full book that way.
Note that these problems go away if you are able to reformat the entire document to a size that fits the screen.
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So larger screens will always give you better results with PDFs but Im happy with the landscape view of PDFs on the opus even if it might be abit cumbersome when zooming and panning around.