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Re: How is PDF-Reading on the N770?

I just downloaded 5 free e-books (in PDF) from Wowio.com

I got 5 Kurt Vonnegut books for free!

Only problem is, when I try to open a book with the native pdf reader, I get this message:

Unable to open. File format not supported.

On my PC the properties of the files say they Adobe Acrobat 7.0 documents.
I have opened another pdf file (not a book) that also says it's a Adobe Acrobat 7.0 document.

Any idea why I can't open these books?
Neil

Re: How is PDF-Reading on the N770?

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Originally Posted by nspeer (Post 44174)

I should add that I am using a 770 with latest 2006 OS

Re: How is PDF-Reading on the N770?

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Originally Posted by MacUser (Post 37522)

Have a 770 edition 2006. So far I'm unable to read an email PDF attachment. It constantly says "not enough memory". My card is a 512 SanDisk. How on earth can there be too little memory? The attachments (faxes) are between 30 - 70 kb.

Faxes are generally scanned at 72 dpi - which yields a huge bitmap for a full page - but compress very well. So while they take up little space on disk or flash, the reader must creat a huge buffer in memory to hold the uncompressed fax picture. That is causing your out-of-memory issue.

In addition, PDF is horrible at handling image data - absolutely terrible resource consumption even on PCs. The format itself has bloated into a monster since the early days of postscript.

It's important to punish these terrible formats by not using them. Faxes are images. Convert them to .png with high compression. You will be able to view without problem using an image viewer.