View Single Post
Old 11-14-2009, 07:19 PM   #11
charleski
Wizard
charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 1,196
Karma: 1281258
Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bismarck View Post
Last straw was PDF handling. I tried a couple and one worked fine. Reflowed everything except images and tables. But the second was nothing but blank pages. Cover image was there, and grey shadows of hyperlinks in the TOC and index which functioned but wen to blank pages. Same thing in the library software. Sony tech support was of no help. Blamed it on the PDF, though the PDF was fine in Mac or Windows Acrobat reader, or Mac Preview, and it was created in Acrobat 5, which sets the standard.
Some PDFs are more equal than others. This is why Adobe set up the various PDF/A and PDF/X standards. I've seen ghastly PDFs that were nothing but huge image scans of the printed page with no actual text - those probably won't render on an ereader.
charleski is offline   Reply With Quote