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MacEachaidh · 06-12-2010, 01:58 PM

Then I've got a couple of responses for you, if I may, kafkaesque.

Firstly, let me ask: how do you go about accessing PDFs on the Story ? Are you talking about full-page documents - A4 or US letter - or are you talking about documents that you've created yourself, presumably formatted to fit?

I can make PDFs work too, after a fashion, if I have editing rights to the original documents and can reformat them for a page around A6 portrait in size and 28 pt, and then generate a new PDF. But that's far from my idea of a device that "supports" PDF format - is that what you were meaning, though, when you talked about PDFs?

If you've got another way of displaying them in a manner where they can be easily read, I'd really, genuinely like to hear it. I can open PDFs, and zoom in on them by defining the rectangle - a clumsy technique, but probably the best that can be done without a touchscreen - but then, without the PDF reflowing, how do you actually rad it?

Second point: don't you think that's a heckuvalot of extra work to go through - all the business of converting it to a PDF - just to read a Word document on the device? That *might* be acceptable - barely - if it was just once a week on a large document. But to do that for every thing you want to read that's in Word format ... you'd have to admit it's a hugely impractical solution. Word is a format that's supposedly supported natively on the device - you shouldn't have to be jumping through all those hoops.

But please, do tell me what if anything I've missed re PDFs. I'd be delighted to know the Story supports PDFs better than I've been giving it credit for.

06-12-2010, 01:58 PM	#19
MacEachaidh Browser Posts: 745 Karma: 578294 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura HD	Then I've got a couple of responses for you, if I may, kafkaesque. Firstly, let me ask: how do you go about accessing PDFs on the Story ? Are you talking about full-page documents - A4 or US letter - or are you talking about documents that you've created yourself, presumably formatted to fit? I can make PDFs work too, after a fashion, if I have editing rights to the original documents and can reformat them for a page around A6 portrait in size and 28 pt, and then generate a new PDF. But that's far from my idea of a device that "supports" PDF format - is that what you were meaning, though, when you talked about PDFs? If you've got another way of displaying them in a manner where they can be easily read, I'd really, genuinely like to hear it. I can open PDFs, and zoom in on them by defining the rectangle - a clumsy technique, but probably the best that can be done without a touchscreen - but then, without the PDF reflowing, how do you actually rad it? Second point: don't you think that's a heckuvalot of extra work to go through - all the business of converting it to a PDF - just to read a Word document on the device? That might be acceptable - barely - if it was just once a week on a large document. But to do that for every thing you want to read that's in Word format ... you'd have to admit it's a hugely impractical solution. Word is a format that's supposedly supported natively on the device - you shouldn't have to be jumping through all those hoops. But please, do tell me what if anything I've missed re PDFs. I'd be delighted to know the Story supports PDFs better than I've been giving it credit for.