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Originally Posted by Ron46
Livingenzyme- if you create a pdf file you can use ANY font you want and any other formatting you want. You are not restricted to Arial or Verdana. I have quickly made pdf files that look exactly like a printed book with Times New Roman and single line spacing and they look fine on a computer, so the generated file is correct. In fact, they look like a printed book on the JBL as well, much more so than JBL's native formatting, EXCEPT 1 of of 10 pages that changes the font size. It is the inconsistency I am trying to account for. The device should display the pdf file according to the file contents, not as it pleases. This is a glitch that should be fixed, not ignored because the reader did not cost $500. Furthermore, I do not believe that ALL book readers have inconsistent pdf rendering, just because you say so. Perhaps, but I doubt it.
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Ok, so let me get this straight. You're actually bothered by the font style? You have to have such and such font or you can't read it? If this is the case, by all means spend $500 on a unit with more features. I don't mind.
I've only read one thing on jbl with pdf format. It was a short story, so it wasn't long. Even then, I didn't notice the inconsistent font sizes that you said. I'll upload a longer pdf file and see what I'll find. I'll get back to you on this.
The reason we're recommending you against using pdf is because of the format of the page. The screen is small enough. To any normal person, it's more comfortable to read a font bigger than ant size. That's what you can do with the other formats. You have 6 font sizes to choose from. With a pdf file, the only way to make the text bigger is to increase the view size of the entire page. That means that you have to scroll the page right and left and up and down to read. May be you're comfortable with this, but to the rest of us, it's downright annoying.
But again, if you want to spend more money on a unit that you have many font styles to choose from as well as a bigger screen to comfortably read the pdf files, you go right ahead. I don't mind.
Edit.
Can you post a picture of one of these pages when the font size fluctuates?