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Old 08-11-2007, 03:30 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by pcinfoman View Post
What is RasterFarian? I am talking about a pdf book that I download from an ebook store. for example, the equivalent of a book I buy in the store on Windows XP, but instead I buy the pdf version of it. Are you guys saying I cannot read it on the Sony Reader? What the hell?
PDF files are not like normal eBooks which can happily be displayed on any sized screen. A PDF file has fixed sized pages - normally A4 or US Letter - and that's "fixed" - they can't be displayed on any other sized screen except by either reducing the size of the entire page, or panning the screen over the existing page.

The Reader has a screen which is only 1/6th the area of an A4 page. There is no sensible way to view such a page in 1/6th the area it should be displayed.

This is a limitation of the PDF format, not the Reader. PDF isn't an eBook format - it's a "page description" format, for fixed-sized pages.
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