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What the EZ Reader calls "zoom" is really "reflow". In reflow, an attempt is made to separate the text and the graphics and the text is shown as on a web page. In other words, increasing the zoom increases the font size and the text adjusts to fit the screen. The problem with this is that a PDF does not have to organize its text in a way that allows reflow to work. Sometimes graphics (images) stop reflow from working at all, and sometimes reflow produces strange artifacts like each line of text wrapping at the edge of the screen even if this is in the middle of a word.
The reflow is being done by mobile Adobe Digital Editions, and so far as I can tell this works the same on all devices with reflow using ADE.
On the Pocket Pro, for PDFs that are DRM-free, there is also the option for using XPDF to display the PDF. This does a conventional zoom, and may be more to your liking. Note that XPDF is included because ADE did not initially allow text to speech. This is now allowed by ADE, and so the next firmware from Jinke may remove the XPDF option.
In principle, an off-line reflow conversion could be better than ADE (because ADE has to work in real time on slow processors). However, the state of the art is still pretty bad. On DRM-free PDFs, you can try Calibre (e.g. convert to ePub) or Windows MobiPocket Reader (imports PDF, exports MOBI). There are also apps that convert PDFs to images optimized for a 6" screen.
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