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Originally Posted by mercury7
I have a question for you guys.
Why do so many eBook readers have trouble with PDF? Couldn't they just display half of the page in landscape mode, as the levirothschild's post suggests.
Pressing down once would go to the second half. Pressing down again would go to the next page. You would have a bit of overlap when displaying the halves so that you could ensure a line didn't get split between the pages.
Is it really any harder than that?
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Go and do your maths
An A4 page is 297 x 210 mm
eInk readers such as the Sony Reader and the CyBook Gen 3 have a 120 x 90 mm screen. Displaying the A4 document in "landscape" mode you therefore end up trying to display a 210mm wide document on a 120mm wide screen.
In order to make it fit, you have to reduce your 210mm down to 120mm - ie reduce it to 57% of its original size. Many documents will
not will readable at barely half their original size.
Does that answer your question?