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Engadget Podcast 169 - 10.31.2009
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
debugy2k @ Oct 12th 2007 4:53PM
I want to purchase this for my business since we view a lot of PDF files on the go. Would someone please demo it out for us and tell us how it is? We want it to be able to view full 8.5"x11" sized PDF files without having to convert them. Will it be clear and fast to open?
Dave @ Oct 12th 2007 5:02PM
amen... how is PDF support? everything I read is in PDF and contains the occasional graphic.. the only info I could find online is that acrobat and word are required.
diner @ Oct 12th 2007 5:07PM
The consensus is that these 6" devices are simply not big enough for letter-sized or similar PDFs. A 8.5x11 page on a 3.6x4.8 device is gonna be painfully small.
You might wanna look into the iRex iLiad instead. It's the only commercially available e-ink device that is bigger than 6". Very expensive though.
Igor @ Oct 12th 2007 6:13PM
Actually while straight PDF on device looks bad, unless the PDF was published with a 6" screen in mind, you can use a utility called PDFRasterfarian (you can find it on the mobileread.com forums) to re-render the PDF for the smaller screen, that does a very good job. It does take a bit of time to run for larger PDF files however.