pdf formatting - Page 2

jblitereader · 06-06-2010, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by mazer

I find serifs more pleasing to the eye. And just as there are tone deaf people who don't understand why someone would want to listen to good music on an expensive stereo, there are people who can not differentiate between what is clearly in front of them.

I know what you mean. I was born with perfect pitch. For a musician, it's a gift. For me, it's a curse.

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Why not just spit in the face of professional publishers everywhere.

Here's the thing. People have never complaint about the number of font options when there were only paper books. Since you only get 1 font option with a paper book...

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People get paid to format books so that, when you buy a hardcover, it doesn't look like the garbage you see in many of the ebook files that circulate the internet.

Really? Is that why books are overpriced?

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Part of that process is selecting a font, and IT MATTERS to some people. Just as you have your opinion about not caring what font you're reading, other people have their opinion of being annoyed by crap-tastic fonts, or worse; bad formatting. Arial and Verdana aren't bad, but I prefer Andalus.

And thank goodness, we have a capitalist system in place in which we can choose not to buy a product that doesn't have what we want.

If you prefer Andalus, then don't buy the JBL. When I bought it, I knew exactly what I was getting. I only complain about technical things that the device did not live up to its reputation.

When you complain about the lack of number of fonts available, it's like buying red lipstick and then complain that you only like black.

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Just appreciate the fact the JBL actually offers functionality that people want (actually, Open Office does!), namely, the ability to define their own aesthetics. I'll never understand people like yourself with that 'closed source, my way or the highway' attitude.

It's not my way or the high way. I'm a techie and I have to deal everyday with people who spend the least amount of money possible and then complain about all the options they don't get. Just last week, there was a woman who wanted to spend only $150 on a new computer, and that included my fee. She told me exactly what she wanted to do with the computer. So, I bought her a pentium 4 2.8 ghz processor and a mother board and used her old tower and cannibalized everything else from her old system. Personally, I think this was a bargain for her. A few days later, she called and complained that her son couldn't play such and such games. Do you get where I'm getting at? They never mentioned to me that they wanted to play those stupid 3-D games on it.

You get what you pay for. Just buy a kindle or something.

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While you're at it... Ask yourself why other fonts even exist. In your world, Arial would be plastered on every sign, every company logo, every web page, and children would be beaten if their handwriting did not conform exactly to Arial specifications. That is the essence of the argument I am getting from you.

No, the essence of argument I'm making is what you see is what you get. My girl friend told me this months ago. Even a computer illiterate like her understood this concept. If I wanted a dude, I would have gone to a gay bar. Or better yet, I would have gone to rentboy.com. I'm not going to get a girlfriend and then complain about anatomy...

mazer · 06-06-2010, 09:09 PM

I really don't understand where you're coming from on this. I bought the JBL, love the JBL, and have already succeeded in putting the font that I want to use on it (see screenshot above).

We're having a nice discussion about how people can do this if they want, right now, and you come in like the buzz-kill police telling us we should have bought an inferior product for more money just to do something we can already do with the JBL (and open office).

I'm not complaining that I want a Kindle, I've used both and prefer the JBL. You just don't seem to get it. If the device is easily capable of something (like additional fonts), people with the know how will find a way to make it do what they want. And we've already succeeded, we have a way to get our fonts onto the device! All this entirely without your help. In fact, all you've done is denounce the effort from the beginning. What point are you trying to make?

If I were asking for wifi on this thing, you would have a point. The hardware is not capable of wifi (although with a usb port it is trivial to add the ability). You would be angry with someone for buying a GPS unit to use in their car and you would suggest to them that they buy a Rolls Royce because they come with a GPS installed. WTF man?

As it stands, you just don't make sense. You seem unwilling or unable to understand what this device is capable of. You don't have the slightest understanding of the hacking community and mindset, apparently.

Would you be the first person to shoot down gr8npwrfl's 'Android on jetBook' project? Would you tell him he should have just bought a Droid Incredible, even after he had managed to get Android running on a jetBook? Because that is exactly what you're doing here.

As a counter point to your strange argument, I suggest that you "go buy a Kindle or something", because you lack the knowledge necessary to hack the JBL. Do you see what kind of nonsense argument you're making?

And by the way, other than this strange neurosis you have about dictating what people should and should not be doing with their bought and paid for device, I generally find your contributions to the forum helpful.

DoctorOhh · 06-07-2010, 06:40 AM

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