09-04-2007, 02:53 AM | #1 |
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File Incompatibility Images Request
As I've been cruising around all of the older threads, I constantly run into comments about how "Yeah, the Reader supports PDFs but they're impossible to read." or "RTF/TXT files get chocked full of horrible line breaks and a million pages." But what do these problems actually look like? Some people seem to think they're not an issue while others think they're a joke. So... If anyone's willing, it would be nice to have some pictures of the Sony being a naughty little reader. You know, just for educational purposes.
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09-04-2007, 03:15 AM | #2 |
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You may want to take a look at these links:
http://hightech.afmag.net/pdf-and-the-sony-reader.html http://hightech.afmag.net/the-sony-r...fs-part-2.html |
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09-04-2007, 04:14 AM | #3 |
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As for PDF. The Sony has a 6" screen. PDF is means for 8.5"x11" printing in most cases. Now that with (in a lot of cases) silly wide margins (that you MS Word for poor default margins that a lot of people have no clue on how to change) and you get a fairly unreadable PDF when it is reduced down. |
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09-04-2007, 06:25 PM | #5 |
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Hmm... Thanks for the links to the images of the PDF formatting. It seems like converting really does help quite a bit in clarity. I think it would be obvious that any PDF with a colored and textured background going onto a smaller screen with four shades of greyscale would be a pretty bad idea: Read it on the computer.
What's a TXT file look like? Those don't look very good even on the computer a lot of the time with long lengths of text. Thanks guys. - Colt |
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09-05-2007, 05:44 AM | #6 |
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Colt,
If you download and install the "Connect" software you'll be able to see for yourself how the Reader will handle any document. Its full-screen preview mode is an exact emulation of the "real" Reader in terms of what it displays. |
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On the conversion page of the MobileRead Wiki there is a listing for Stingo's Word Macro. It fixes the line ends for text files and makes them very presentable for loading on the Reader as RTF. I use it a lot for preprocessing files before I load them into BookDesigner.
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