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Originally Posted by HarryT
The so-called PDF "problems" are down to the restrictions of the PDF format itself, not the Reader. The fact that there is no good way of reading an A4/Letter sized page on a screen 1/6th the area is not Sony's "fault".
You only have two choices - reduce the document size to fit the screen, or have a system of "panning" the screen over the PDF page. Neither is a good solution.
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All too true -- which is why PDF is a poor ebook format for most of us. I know some people prefer the hyphenation and justification features, but most of us do not seem to want to reformat every book we own to a custom-sized PDF.
Yet, it was Sony's choice to support the format. What other product vendor has provided PDF support on a small screen (PDA software is the only comparison that comes to mind), and then told their customers to simply re-size every PDF they wish to view? My old Psion Series 7 had a really large screen (7.7") for a PDA, but it would have been useless for viewing PDFs if not for the pan and zoom features in the software. And that was how many years ago?