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pictures of large manual pages
I was asked to contribute to this thread by taking pictures of
two fairly large manuals - a DVD Studio Pro User Manual (12 M) -
and the Final Cut Pro User Manual (42 M). This are rather elegant
manuals - page size is 7.5 x 9 inches but I suppose meant
mostly to be viewed at a terminal. They zoom all the way
to 400% while maintaining their crisp look.
They loaded OK from a SD card to the Sony reader, and page turning
was reasonable once opened. The larger could take up to 45 seconds
or so to load and maybe 30 seconds or so to exit - I suppose the closing
time was caused by the updates to cache.xml. On the Sony reader the
pages looked "washed out", i.e. type seemed less than black, but of course
the type size was very small. In landscape view they could at least be read
but they were still washed out. They might load quicker once the cache
is updated. Not quite good enough to be useful but almost. Note that
they are apparently ver 1.5 PDF's not necessarily supported by Sony.
I did two pages - 443 of the DVD Manual and 1040 of the Final Cut
Manual (Page III-253 - absolute page 1040). For comparison I also loaded
page 1040 to the Iliad. The Iliad does not yet have a landscape mode.
However the display is larger and it handles big PDB's without difficulty.
The page is also washed out on the Iliad but not as badly. It's
readable but small - tantalizing close to being really useful.
The Sony reader pictures show both portrait and landscape views - the
two landscape views are combined.
The pictures are fairly high resolution jpegs - 200 - 300 K taken outdoors
in full sun - Not too big I hope. By the way none of the pages I looked at
caused trouble - all viewed OK. Note the highlighted line on page 443.
This is an active link on the Sony - links are not implemented on the Iliad.
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