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Originally Posted by NatCh
It does support it. It faithfully displays the document, preserving its layout precisely, just as PDF is designed to do.
And it's not "any given pdf file of today" -- the ones with a 6" diagonal page display perfectly well, as already discussed.  |
NatCh, all you say about pdf is absolutely true. The issue really is why Sony chose to support this 'faithful reproducer' format knowing that what people need is a way of reading documents on a 6" screen that they normally see on a bigger screen. wwwinwwg!
The elephant in the room here (apart from the fact that we're in 'Renaming Files!:-)) is the lack of HTML support. Here is a format designed for viewing, with sophisticated rendering software freely available. I think it must be a marketing decision, Sony still hoping to make a 'dripping roast' by forcing people to buy eBooks, rather than read the marvellous free HTMLs from Gutenberg. It may be they'll take one more step back from their first, very cagy, step into the ePaper field (what was that crazy device called now?:-)), and support HTML.
Somebody will, sometime; the iRex iLiad already supports HTML, but it has battery-life problems & is v. dear. You can save an HTML document as RTF, but the result is often not impressive.