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Ken-Pham



Joined: 06/07/2010 19:01:44
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Does anyone feel in the same way as me? Jetbook can read very fine with txt and prc but not the pdf as we have to use the scroll function all the time otherwise the words are unreadable. It's very awkward everytime i start reading those files. Have people had any idea to solve this issue yet? Do we say need a software to covert pdf to prc or txt, and will thing be improved by doing so??
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deano@nf.sympatico.ca



Joined: 12/30/2009 19:48:42
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google Calibre Ebook conversion software. It's free and will convert your pdf's into txt files, thus making them very easy to read! Sometimes the conversion is not great, with poor spacing, page insert errors, etc but very good overall.
ronouel



Joined: 12/15/2009 05:41:53
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That's because most pdfs are made to emulate an 8.5 x 11 inch page. If you take a text file and make your own pdf as a 3x 4 inch page (with open office Writer), you will not need to zoom.

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ezeechair



Joined: 02/13/2010 10:38:59
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The Aluratek Libre Pro is an identical hardware/OS device like the Jetbook.
It just runs a different reader(s).

It does not support T9 text entry or the weak dictionary but it does support all the same e-book formats including HTM/HTML as well as Adobe Digital Editions ePub/PDF DRM support.

The PDF support includes "Text Flow on/off" which means that you can read approx 95 % of PDF docs without having to do any zooming and panning to view the text. Regardless of what the original PDf sorm was designed to view on. There still are issues with embeded tables and charts but you can turn "Text Flow Off" and then zoom in as you would with the Jetbook to enlarge the tables and charts.

So there are work arounds that could be added to the jetbook to improve it.

Update June 29/2010: For those that have the regular jetBook that does not take AA batteries there is a new Firmware .035a that resolves all the PDF issues on a small screen and gives active TOC for both ePub & PDF.

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Ezeechair
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JetBook since Feb 2010
Aluratek Libre Pro since June 2010
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