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wallcraft · 02-24-2010, 07:44 PM

The DR800SG has been configured by iRex with a crippled PDF capability to protect sales of the DR1000S. In particular it has no zoom option and even the landscape mode is broken. It does reflow PDFs, but this isn't likely to be effective for technical PDFs.

There is some chance that iRex will improve PDF support when mobile Adobe Digital Editions is added to the DR1000S (i.e. they might add the same version to the DR800SG). However, in general it isn't a good idea to buy a device based on possible future capabilities. In this case iRex has not even said that PDF zoom will be included on the DR800SG. They have said that annotation will be added.

02-24-2010, 07:44 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	The DR800SG has been configured by iRex with a crippled PDF capability to protect sales of the DR1000S. In particular it has no zoom option and even the landscape mode is broken. It does reflow PDFs, but this isn't likely to be effective for technical PDFs. There is some chance that iRex will improve PDF support when mobile Adobe Digital Editions is added to the DR1000S (i.e. they might add the same version to the DR800SG). However, in general it isn't a good idea to buy a device based on possible future capabilities. In this case iRex has not even said that PDF zoom will be included on the DR800SG. They have said that annotation will be added.