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Old 04-10-2010, 09:12 PM   #8
Ron46
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GhostHawk - what do you mean pdfs are converted to plain text?

Here are two pictures of my JBL screen. One is plain text the way the JBL displays it- and it displays rtfs and epub files the same way.

The second is a pdf. It has 1. Times New Roman Font (unavailable on JBL) 2. A margin on the left (unavailable on JBL txt, rtf, epub) 3. Single line spacing instead of 1.5x (not settable in JBL txt, rtf, epub). In short, it looks like a real book. To ME, it is a vast improvement. Maybe to some, it doesn't make any difference or they can't see it.

So since you can only control formatting by using a pdf file, it seems to be a good solution. But to go back to my original post, I may read this pdf file for 5 or 10 pages, then all of a sudden I get one page where the font gets bigger and the margin goes away. Then the next page goes back to proper formatting. I guess I did not state this as clearly as needed.
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