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Originally Posted by imabuddha
1. Many of the ebooks I have are pdf files containing scanned images of book pages. These files range in size from 5MB up to about 75MB. Will your device be able to handle such large pdf files? How long will it take to open such a file? How long to flip to the next/prev page? Will the zoom function work on image-based pdfs, and if so, will I be able to pan/scroll around on the zoomed page?
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I can answer the pan/scroll part, based on the latest EZ Reader firmware (which should be very similar to the Pocket Pro firmware for PDF). The EZ Reader does not pan/scroll. Its menu mentions "zoom", but this is actually "reflow" which only works for text.
EDIT: I see that DaleDe has a more accurate description for mixed text and image pages.
The only modes you will have for full page image PDFs is full screen portrait and landscape lowest zoom level, which is essentially half a page at a time. I have scans of the screen on a single page vector graphic PDF in
Scaling down PDF to work on BeBook, with the first 3 scans showing the portrait and landscape screens from this single PDF page.
The only current mobile Adobe Digital Editions implementation with an actual "zoom" (that works for images in a PDF) is the Sony PRS-700, which is about to be replaced by the functionally very similar PRS-600. Note that the screen refresh time makes conventional pan/scroll impractical.
If you can point to an example of the kind of PDF you are asking about, I can try it out for you on the EZ reader. Its processing and screen refresh times wil be longer, but the screen contents should be similar to the Pocket Pro.