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Device: kindle dx
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kindle app? is it possible to design a app to full support PDF?
dose anyone know that ? i am waitting for that kind of app .
PDF is really important, and conversion of pdf is not a good idea |
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Device is kindle dx
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I thought Kindle DX did support PDF fully? I dont have one so havent tested it.
Interested to know what aspects aren't 'fully' supported in case I ever decide to upgrade my '2' |
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Amazon licenced Adobe Digital Editions for the Kindle, but it did not implement most of the features of ADE and several open source PDF viewers are more capable than the Kindle's PDF viewer. The missing features are just about everything. No table of contents, no bookmarks, no annotations, no global indexing (for search). It is also missing page reflow. Like ADE, it does not support passworded PDFs. To answer the original question, yes it is possible to port a full featured open source PDF viewer to an EInk device like the Kindle 2. The Hanlin's (for example) used XPDF before they switched to Adobe Digital Editions. The iLiad had very good PDF support because its open source PDF Reader was extensively hacked by its user community. There is now a version for the iLiad that does reflow (pPDF). |
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Hmm bookmars are supported, aren't they?
And i am pretty sure i can search my PDF's looking up a special word for example, or what do you mean by "global indexing"? |
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Search within the open PDF is supported, and adding a 3rd party PDF reader won't help with the missing global indexing/search. |
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Edit: I'm attaching a screen grab of the search results and the highlighted passage the search found. Edit 2: Per your request, I did a global search for the word "battery" from the home page. It DID NOT find the word in the Asus PDF manual but it DID find 4 instances of the word in the PDF I created myself. Edit 3: I owe Wallcraft an apology. I forgot I had a PDF version and a Mobi version (on the last page) of the same document. My search results were from the Mobi document NOT the PDF. Searching from within the PDF DOES still work. Last edited by daffy4u; 02-05-2010 at 01:03 PM. |
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Let me preface this by saying I haven't actually used PDF's on my K2, but I've heard that the support is actually fairly decent these days, and the DX support should definitely be up to snuff.
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When they announced Apps, they said no generic reader apps would be allowed.
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Just in case you want to see how well technical pdfs render on the DX, some screen shots here: http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com/...the-kindle-dx/
No annotations is the major limitation with technical documents, sometimes it's handy to jot something on a page. But the vast majority of PDF tools are supported now. |
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