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Old 02-16-2010, 04:49 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Geppetto View Post
You're telling me that you can't change the font size with PDFs. You know that's not true. You can't do it on a Cybook (and maybe on any Netronix EB600 clone - I'm not sure which), but you know that you can do it on a Hanlin (and clones: BeBook, Astak, Papyre, Lbook and so on). You can do it on a Sony.
You can "zoom in" on the page, yes, but that's not at all a satisfactory solution, because it means that you have to "pan around" the page in order to read it. Most PDFs which are more than just plain text will not "reflow" in any way that is at all satisfactory.

I'm sorry, but I maintain my view that PDF is an extremely poor choice of format for an eBook. It is not what PDF was designed to do - the point of a PDF file is to provide a digital representation of a fixed-sized page. A "real" ebook format such as ePub will do a much better job.
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