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wallcraft · 09-01-2007, 10:05 PM

E-book readers tend to have low performance cpus, so the best bet at the moment is off-line conversion to images optimized for the device. The best example so far is PDFLRF, and post #26 of this thread includes screenshots. These might look even better in landscape. Even off-line conversion may not be good enough on a small screen, but it illustrates what will eventually be possible in real-time on future devices. Unfortunately, PDFLRF is Sony-specific at present but there are similar utilities that produce HTML and therefore target a wider range of devices.

09-01-2007, 10:05 PM	#185
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	E-book readers tend to have low performance cpus, so the best bet at the moment is off-line conversion to images optimized for the device. The best example so far is PDFLRF, and post #26 of this thread includes screenshots. These might look even better in landscape. Even off-line conversion may not be good enough on a small screen, but it illustrates what will eventually be possible in real-time on future devices. Unfortunately, PDFLRF is Sony-specific at present but there are similar utilities that produce HTML and therefore target a wider range of devices.