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Old 07-06-2011, 11:16 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by DMB View Post
I'm in the process of reading a scientific book with embedded equations. The equations are faint and tiny and I have enormous difficulty reading them. So far I can mentally fill in most of the details I can't see properly, but I am worried that as the book progresses I shall get lost.

I tried changing the text size, but it didn't affect the size of the equations. I assume they may be in some format like pdf.

Any suggestions?
i share your frustration. this seems to be a major limitation with current e-ink platforms, including kindle.

the equations are being rendered as bitmaps because the on-board character sets can't display them properly. if you convert a wiki article over to kindle it never gets the equations correct.

my only suggestion is to use PDF....that's why i opted for the larger kindle DX, i knew i'd be forced into reading lots of PDFs for scientific articles.
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