PDF on PRS-300 cutting words in half

dink · 01-11-2010, 09:26 AM

When viewing a native PDF on the Sony Pocket Reader, it looks ok. When clicking the button to zoom (or enlarge text) it has a nasty habit of splitting a word over 2 lines instead of just putting the word on the next line when it gets to the end of the screen.
This is making reading PDFs a nightmare.
Anyone know how to stop it from doing this?

Thanks in advance

spideog · 01-11-2010, 01:14 PM

I had the same problem with a couple of PDFs I opened before on mine. I juts converted them to epub with calibre and made them much more readable. Not perfect, but much better than the original PDF format.

wallcraft · 01-11-2010, 01:31 PM

This seems to happen with PDFs that have somehow locked in manual line breaks (even after the reflow process). So what you are seeing is a line longer than the screen wrapping at the screen edge. It is a limitation of mobile Adobe Digital Editions reflow algortihms, so this happens on many devices not just the PRS-300. I agree that at a minimum mobile ADE should wrap on word boundaries in these cases.

The only work around I am aware of is, as spideog says, to convert to ePub off-line.

01-11-2010, 09:26 AM	#1
dink Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: PRS-300	PDF on PRS-300 cutting words in half When viewing a native PDF on the Sony Pocket Reader, it looks ok. When clicking the button to zoom (or enlarge text) it has a nasty habit of splitting a word over 2 lines instead of just putting the word on the next line when it gets to the end of the screen. This is making reading PDFs a nightmare. Anyone know how to stop it from doing this? Thanks in advance

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01-11-2010, 01:14 PM	#2
spideog Connoisseur Posts: 68 Karma: 648 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: PRS-300	I had the same problem with a couple of PDFs I opened before on mine. I juts converted them to epub with calibre and made them much more readable. Not perfect, but much better than the original PDF format.

01-11-2010, 01:31 PM	#3
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	This seems to happen with PDFs that have somehow locked in manual line breaks (even after the reflow process). So what you are seeing is a line longer than the screen wrapping at the screen edge. It is a limitation of mobile Adobe Digital Editions reflow algortihms, so this happens on many devices not just the PRS-300. I agree that at a minimum mobile ADE should wrap on word boundaries in these cases. The only work around I am aware of is, as spideog says, to convert to ePub off-line.

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