350ppi OLED displays coming

[carpetmojo]

Look, this is ridiculous - I can't even see my pixels when they wear those little red hats with the bells on.

They play havoc with my bluebells, so I don't want 'em anywhere near my naked eye, thanks very much ................

[SeaKing]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Well, sort of. The AREA varies with an inverse square law, but the SIZE (the linear dimensions) are an inverse linear relationship. If you view a page at half the distance, the letters will appear to be double the size, not 4x the size.

YES, that is what I said.

"There is a law called "the inverse square law." Essentially this means that if you take an object and move it closer to you by say 1/2 as close then its size as you see it becomes 4 times larger. If you move it away, say 2 times as far, its size as you see it becomes 1/4 as large. This works for images, sounds and for radio signals."

... but I could have been more specific about the linear dimensions being twice or 1/2 the amount they were before the object was moved.

A light or a radio signal works like the size of a linear object.
1/4 as weak or 4 times as strong as the source or receiver is moved twice as far away or half as close.


I need my "wordy" nephew to proof read my wording.

[willus]

Originally Posted by rkomar

True, but scientific papers are pretty well never formatted for 6" screens. I can do that with my own (and use a more E-Ink friendly font, as well), but I'm stuck with whatever PDFs everyone else provides for their papers. The figures are also problematic, even when the document is re-formatted.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that higher resolution displays had real benefits, even for those of us without SeaKing's eagle-eyes. You would be able to read those PDFs, for starters.

Try running your PDF-formatted scientific papers through k2pdfopt before sending to your reader.

[HansTWN]

Originally Posted by willus

Try running your PDF-formatted scientific papers through k2pdfopt before sending to your reader.

That almost reads like PDFkaput. (no idea why Americans spell kaput with one "t" only, when it actually should be "kaputt").

[rkomar]

Originally Posted by willus

Try running your PDF-formatted scientific papers through k2pdfopt before sending to your reader.

Just tried it out, and it's not bad. For everyone else, it looks like it renders the original PDF to images stored inside a new PDF. So, links go away, and you can't search anymore, but it looks like it would be fine if all you wanted to do was linearly read the document. I tried it on the paper I uploaded before, and the equations are still there and correct, so that's an improvement over PDF reflow on the device.

[frahse]

Originally Posted by HansTWN

That almost reads like PDFkaput. (no idea why Americans spell kaput with one "t" only, when it actually should be "kaputt").

Look fellow (as I pull out my handy dandy, all inclusive Franklin handheld "everything about words.")

"kaput also kaputt (adjective)"

[willus]

Originally Posted by rkomar

Just tried it out, and it's not bad. For everyone else, it looks like it renders the original PDF to images stored inside a new PDF. So, links go away, and you can't search anymore, but it looks like it would be fine if all you wanted to do was linearly read the document. I tried it on the paper I uploaded before, and the equations are still there and correct, so that's an improvement over PDF reflow on the device.

FYI, a version of k2pdfopt w/OCR (using tesseract) is in the works so that some search capability is preserved. Output will still be graphics, but with searchable text as a hidden overlay. Main k2pdfopt forum is here.