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PDF is a pain to read on the majority of mobile devices. Even Kindle. Its lack of reflowing makes it impossible to adapt to various smaller screen sizes and e
by SkyMarshal 14y ago
PDF is a pain to read on the majority of mobile devices. Even Kindle. Its lack of reflowing makes it impossible to adapt to various smaller screen sizes and efficiently use screen space and change text size. It's becoming a real pain point.
- UnFleshedOne 14y agoPDF is pain to read anywhere, including wide screen desktop monitors.
- sigkill 14y agoWell on my low DPI 1680x1050 (16:10) 22" monitor I can fullscreen PDFs and two pages are visible in one go. It's readable.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoHaha, true, though at least on my laptop I can full-screen it zoom the content to the screen edges, and invert the colors to get dark bg/light text. It's at least serviceable that way. Nothing like it (or at least that easy) on Kindle, Android, etc. that I know of.
- nkurz 14y agoThere are some PDF readers on Android that are much better than stock. "Night Mode" on ezPDF Reader (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.reader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.re...) might do what you want.
- sigkill 14y agoI can totally vouch for nightmode on ezPDF. The only place it borks out is around equation boxes which, I think are images anyway.
- eropple 14y agoI don't find PDFs to be a problem on an iPad unless the PDF publisher has done something wacky (nonstandard paper sizes is a big one).