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andresborbon · 02-15-2007, 04:42 AM

Hi, I'm from Mexico and have a Sony Reader 3 months ago (thanks to geekraver). About PDF files: I think it is a slippery format to work with. They can't reflow in the device, so you have to know what you want before formatting. If you are clear in that, there is no problem. The page turns of my pdf's are as quick as text (or lrf, or rtf). I disabled most of the advanced features when producing the files (because they didn't work and the files sizes increased notably), and obtain PDF's only 1.3 times bigger than txt files. In adition, they have images, bookmarks, links (to other locations in the book), preserved format... almost everything, and I have all the fonts I want. In PDF, I managed to read files of 60Mb easy and without the slow and irritating "formatting..." advice.When the original document is in PDF, I use PDFtoWord software and apply a little Macro I wrote in Word to "reformat" the document (mostly to eliminate hard line breaks) and the images and internal links are preserved.

One thing I noticed with the actual firmware update: With the previous firmware, txt files bigger than 1Mb were not readable (I'd tried hundreds of times). With the actual update, I was able to read txt files of almost 4Mb, but a txt file of 11Mb was not working (I'm a doctor, and our books are BIG and boring). Have anyone noticed this?

02-15-2007, 04:42 AM	#182
andresborbon Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2006 Device: Sony Reader, iPaq 37150	PDF's and Firmware on Txt files Hi, I'm from Mexico and have a Sony Reader 3 months ago (thanks to geekraver). About PDF files: I think it is a slippery format to work with. They can't reflow in the device, so you have to know what you want before formatting. If you are clear in that, there is no problem. The page turns of my pdf's are as quick as text (or lrf, or rtf). I disabled most of the advanced features when producing the files (because they didn't work and the files sizes increased notably), and obtain PDF's only 1.3 times bigger than txt files. In adition, they have images, bookmarks, links (to other locations in the book), preserved format... almost everything, and I have all the fonts I want. In PDF, I managed to read files of 60Mb easy and without the slow and irritating "formatting..." advice.When the original document is in PDF, I use PDFtoWord software and apply a little Macro I wrote in Word to "reformat" the document (mostly to eliminate hard line breaks) and the images and internal links are preserved. One thing I noticed with the actual firmware update: With the previous firmware, txt files bigger than 1Mb were not readable (I'd tried hundreds of times). With the actual update, I was able to read txt files of almost 4Mb, but a txt file of 11Mb was not working (I'm a doctor, and our books are BIG and boring). Have anyone noticed this?