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Ebook readers, Specifically PDF and PDB
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<blockquote data-quote="Fat Abe" data-source="post: 1029878" data-attributes="member: 149472"><p>Slick but not perfect. I have been playing around with it for the past half day. First, since it uses the Safari parsing engine, it leaves out math symbols every now and then. Example: cosmological constant on page 9 of</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.higgs-boson.org/files/mass.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.higgs-boson.org/files/mass.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>Same file renders perfectly on a Mac Pro, using latest version of Safari.</p><p></p><p>Second, on one art book, Nude Photography, by Pascal Baetens, the photograph by André Kertész on page 17 (labeled) or 19 (actual) is MISSING. I also found another missing photo later.</p><p></p><p>Lots of teething pains so far, but the folks who publish Goodreader will probably figure out the cause of the bugs.</p><p></p><p>One feature I have not figured out yet is a clean form of page advance. Let's suppose you have a page which does not render fully (due to user zooming). When you hit the tapzone on the lower right corner, the reader just fills the bottom of the screen with whatever was missing on a page. Thus your eyes have to catch where the transition is, deciphering the old from the new. This is annoying, and does not happen with the Sony 300 - 900 readers. Viewing 1:1 is painful due to font rendering. To be genuinely considered an ereader, the pdf software should behave like epub software, with a nice clean transition in the reading line. It doesn't look like this version of goodreader allows this option, afaik.</p><p></p><p>There is a second 99 cent app which handles the page transitioning somewhat cleanly. The name of the app is PDFReader. In the rush to get it to market, the maker just scaled up a version that works on the iPhone/iPod screen. It doesn't use the full real estate of the screen, but the page segments jump correctly. A little more white space would have been appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fat Abe, post: 1029878, member: 149472"] Slick but not perfect. I have been playing around with it for the past half day. First, since it uses the Safari parsing engine, it leaves out math symbols every now and then. Example: cosmological constant on page 9 of [url]http://www.higgs-boson.org/files/mass.pdf[/url] Same file renders perfectly on a Mac Pro, using latest version of Safari. Second, on one art book, Nude Photography, by Pascal Baetens, the photograph by André Kertész on page 17 (labeled) or 19 (actual) is MISSING. I also found another missing photo later. Lots of teething pains so far, but the folks who publish Goodreader will probably figure out the cause of the bugs. One feature I have not figured out yet is a clean form of page advance. Let's suppose you have a page which does not render fully (due to user zooming). When you hit the tapzone on the lower right corner, the reader just fills the bottom of the screen with whatever was missing on a page. Thus your eyes have to catch where the transition is, deciphering the old from the new. This is annoying, and does not happen with the Sony 300 - 900 readers. Viewing 1:1 is painful due to font rendering. To be genuinely considered an ereader, the pdf software should behave like epub software, with a nice clean transition in the reading line. It doesn't look like this version of goodreader allows this option, afaik. There is a second 99 cent app which handles the page transitioning somewhat cleanly. The name of the app is PDFReader. In the rush to get it to market, the maker just scaled up a version that works on the iPhone/iPod screen. It doesn't use the full real estate of the screen, but the page segments jump correctly. A little more white space would have been appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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