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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
I personally like the support the Story gives to reflowable formats like DOC and ePub, because I've read it doesn't reflow PDFs -- so you're stuck with either reading them at the size and shape they were formatted for, or else zooming and manually panning all over the page, which is pretty clumsy. And I've read the Story does some inscrutable things with displaying TXT files -- breaking lines of text mid-screen for no apparent reason
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My Story does reflow PDFs OK.
I can't speak for early versions, but the reflowing works fine on my PDFs - provided they were formatted in a suitable way in the first place.
The trouble with reading anecdotal reports on the internet is that it's not always possible to tell whether the poster knew what they were looking at. If I turn reflow on (it's in the Options section) then it reflows text based PDFs just fine and gives a range of zoom options to change the text size. However, if the text in the PDF has been scanned in page by page as a picture then of course the words won't reflow. Similarly, if the document has a mixture of text and embedded pictures then it will struggle to give you a perfect outcome. As far as I know, that's likely to be a problem with most readers that try to cope with documents that were formatted to be read at a bigger size.
Many of the free books also seem to be formatted with a line break (carriage return) at the end of every line. Zooming on these will also cause the lines to fragment above a certain zoom level. Again, this isn't the fault of the reader, and it will do the same in Word for instance.
That's the way I see it. But, hey, I might be wrong too.....
Cheers,
Chris