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Old 01-22-2010, 10:44 AM   #140
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Location: Augsburg (near Munich), Germany
Device: 26 Readers, 44 Tablets
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I used the PDFill-Tools from this site. There's an option "Rotate or crop PDF pages", you can set the cropping manually, it's a bit of guesswork.

I enclosed a photo with a printout in A4 in comparison to the reader.

One important point is also the resolution of 768x1024 of the device. I think the Sony 900 has only 600x800? By rendering small fonts, the resolution is important. The only devices available with a higher than 600x800 resolution ara AFAIK the Iliad, DR800S and the Kindle DX.

For this kind of paper the resolution and display size should be higher, future devices like the QUE or the Skiff would be appropriate, but they are also physically much bigger.

So far I think the DR800S hardware and the form factor is top. The software is lacking, but Irex could fix this. I hope they will this time.

There's even a firmware update available at Irex. I installed it, but it changes no functionality. Only thing I could observe in the system settings was a change in "Micro Bootloader Version" from 1.2 to 1.3 and "Micro Application Version" also from 1.2 to 1.3. The software Version is still 1.0 and the software build number is 1000.201001050630.
Sony 900: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...specifications
Display
Gray Scale : 16 level gray scale
Resolution : 600 x 1024 pixels
Screen Size : Vizplex™ 7.1 inches
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