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Originally Posted by scottjl
hey. it was my posting. i'll flag it as a win if i want to.
seriously though.. the only thing missing, at this time, is the ability to support embedded fonts. which someone will probably take care of soon enough. it might be a big thing to some people, but to the majority, i doubt it is. the ipad can change text colors, background colors, and choose among several font faces. in addition to the look of the page graphic itself (stone tablet, parchment, computer CRT, heck, they could even make it look like an eInk screen!), include beautiful full color graphics and animation (see the new Alice book), animate page turns (some people seem to love it). and the list goes on with respect to what the iPad can display on it's color LCD screen that something like my sony 600 8 level grey scale eInk can't.
the iPad can display everything an eInk screen can right now, and is only missing one feature, working with embedded fonts. I'd say that's a win for the iPad.
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This might be a stupid question, but here goes: Do embedded fonts work on text-based PDFs on the iPad? I am considering the iPad as it looks like it might be a good choice of device for marking up PDFs, but I have to say that embedded fonts would be a deal breaker for me, as I am happy reading novels on my Sony 505 and would be purchasing the iPad to primarily to read scanned PDFs and journal articles / textbooks, and texts that I am translating, and most of these PDFs would use "foreign" characters.