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On PDF formatting and zoom/panning:
I want to make it clear to others unfamiliar with the iLiad, that there is no problem with PDF viewing whatsoever. There has been issues, when landscape viewing or zooming did not work properly but it is the past now. These functions work as perfectly as possible with an eink device (that gives you no immediate feedback on what you are doing, because takes time to refresh the screen - I know it is an inconvenience but it is not such an unsurpassable problem).
With any books I had (even with A4 documents downloaded from the web) I managed to zoom and pan them to eliminate wide margins and make fonts readable. I realised that I am able to change the zoom for virtually any document to make it readable, and I never failed so far.
Here is the process for you:
1. Turn on the continuous mode, so that you can see the real margins of the page
2. Select "Zoom" icon, and select a range of the screen with the stylus, that you want to see, but make sure:
-- you allow for a small margin still (2-3 mm)
-- you don't select vertically the whole visible area, you rather focus on what you select horizontally, because the aim is to eliminate left and right margins, rather than top and bottom margins (remember you are in continuous mode)
3. After zooming, if you don't get exactly what you wanted you have 2 options:
- go back to full page and start zooming all over (step 2)
- go to pan mode and slightly move the page left or right, so that nothing would go off the page, then turn off pan mode
4. Finally when you are ready, with zooming you have to do nothing else just to remeber:
when you exit from the file, the zoom setting will be saved and next time you can continue with the zooming, so that it does not matter how difficult it was to set up the zooming, once you have done properly, you don't need to redo the whole process again.
I think this is a child's play.
I think there is nothing to complain about.
I think it's not necessary to reformat or reflow PDFs any more.
IMHO
By the way I am currently moving to the UK, I will live near London area. Would anybody be interested to meet and set up kind of an "iLiad users club". We could discuss how we use the device, what we read and maybe form a strategy how we communicate to iRex to get done what we wanted.
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