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This is simply brilliant. I've never seen anyone produce PDFs for small size (or large fonts). I just tried it on iPad mini and it is fantastic. I don't have my
by systemvoltage 5y ago
This is simply brilliant. I've never seen anyone produce PDFs for small size (or large fonts). I just tried it on iPad mini and it is fantastic. I don't have my eReader handy but I can only imagine it would work well. I think you nailed the problem with PDFs and eReaders - its the choppy panning/zooming that's fatiguing to be able to read fonts at a legible size. This solves it.
I hope this idea catches on. ePub/Mobi files are no good IMO.
- kragen 5y agoOh, thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I'm interested to hear how it works on the eReader too, since the iPad is a lot more capable of rapid scrolling, which makes it a significantly more forgiving environment for this kind of thing.
- systemvoltage 5y agoIt didn't work as well on Kindle, see [1]. The version of Kindle I have is from 2012 and it doesn't have a 'fit-to-width' feature. So, the PDF would need to be of correct aspect ratio. [1] https://i.imgur.com/GbOASey.jpg https://i.imgur.com/GbOASey.jpg
- kragen 5y agoThanks! Yeah, that looks pretty hard to read. I see it has 150%, 200%, 300%, and "actual size" options; do any of those make it usable? How about landscape mode?
- systemvoltage 5y agoNo, those options are worse. Tiny boxes that require panning in x and y direction. 100% is about half the width of the PDF.
- kragen 5y agoThank you very much!