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OldRacer · 06-13-2010, 12:26 PM

OK, I got one of the Woot PRS-300s at $115. My wife has a Kindle but this is my first try at e-book readers. In general it is quite fun, but:

PDF rendering is lousy. Either it is too small, or it is destroyed. The manual even describe one of the bugs: " In certain situations, only text may appear at these sizes as some tables and graphics may be reformatted and altered ..." That is pretty sad, when they ship with a bug that is so bad they have to document it in the user manual.

With a scanned book I have, the reader simply omits some of the graphics even at "S" with the full page displayed. Another major bug, this time not documented.

Questions:
1) Are all the Sony Readers incompetent with PDFs? I expect they all use the same code base. In fact I passed on yesterday's Woot, a $155 Touch, because of this.
2) Is there any indication that Sony plans to fix the problem?

By "fix" I mean that the PDF should be fully rendered at any of the size settings and the arrow keys should pan the image up and down, back and forth, as necessary. Like every other competent PDF reader on the planet: Adobe Reader, Nitro Reader, Foxit Reader, etc.

06-13-2010, 12:26 PM	#1
OldRacer Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: PRS-300	Newbie Unhappy with PDF Rendering OK, I got one of the Woot PRS-300s at $115. My wife has a Kindle but this is my first try at e-book readers. In general it is quite fun, but: PDF rendering is lousy. Either it is too small, or it is destroyed. The manual even describe one of the bugs: " In certain situations, only text may appear at these sizes as some tables and graphics may be reformatted and altered ..." That is pretty sad, when they ship with a bug that is so bad they have to document it in the user manual. With a scanned book I have, the reader simply omits some of the graphics even at "S" with the full page displayed. Another major bug, this time not documented. Questions: 1) Are all the Sony Readers incompetent with PDFs? I expect they all use the same code base. In fact I passed on yesterday's Woot, a $155 Touch, because of this. 2) Is there any indication that Sony plans to fix the problem? By "fix" I mean that the PDF should be fully rendered at any of the size settings and the arrow keys should pan the image up and down, back and forth, as necessary. Like every other competent PDF reader on the planet: Adobe Reader, Nitro Reader, Foxit Reader, etc.