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Old 10-10-2009, 07:44 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by llreader View Post

So, as far as formats go, scanned images are a real non-starter on a 6" screen. How about text PDFs that don't have the reflow feature (as I understand very few current PDFs have this feature activated)? I have a couple of textbooks in PDF format, which I would love to have handy, as well as some course handouts (all as text PDFs).
The readers that support PDF reflow dont't (as far as I've seen) require the reflow feature to be activated in the PDF itself. They can handle the reflow on their own as long as the content of the PDF is text and not a scanned image.

I've just tested that on my Pocket Pro which had the Adobe Software for reflow, and non of the PDF's I threw at it had reflow active. The sony uses the Same software so should treat it the same way.

So if your textbooks and handouts were generated as text PDF's it should not be an issue. unless your professor was rescanning the handouts instead of just printing to PDF, it should probably not really be a proble.
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