Firmware Update Do people think reflow will be available for pdf files?

[floriano]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Crop the PDF to eliminate headers/footers/margins. You'll still have page numbers displayed, and fit to screen will be able to use all the space for the text you want to read. It also improves readability in landscape, particularly with PDFs formatted like the one you mention, where something in the header prevents margins from being automatically trimmed.

If you have a Mac, you can use Preview to crop.
There are a number of free cropping tools that work on any platform as well. For example, search these forums for 'BRISS'.

I did so, but it is annoying to edit every pdf by hand. I used the linux utility "pdfcrop" in case some linux users are interested..

[yacoob]

Originally Posted by jswinden

However, as a general rule PDFs and ebook readers don't go together, especially multi-column PDFs.

Sony PRS-650 has sort of continuous zoom mode, where it zooms in and scrolls the viewing area over 2 or 3 columns of text. Works really really fine. As for reflowing - I don't know about PDFs being "tagged" with some property, but I found that almost every PDF that I've tried was reflowable on both Sony and Irex readers. Images were problematic - sometimes they were left as they were, sometimes they were scaled, sometimes they were gone.

But yes, lack of proper reflow (among other things) resulted in me deciding that I'll get better value out of Sony PRS-650. Let's hope Amazon will be nice and they'll add reflow to Kindle.