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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> How well does it handle PDFs? Particularly PDFs with pictures, graphs,
> equations and such?
It seems to do just fine. The native format is apparently something like
HTML inside (the same as "mobi" format). However, there's also a PDF
interpreter that will draw PDFs exactly as presented (as far as I can tell).
Of course, modulo color. It's grayscale.
Now, the PDF is going to either fit the screen, or be some multiple
(including 100%) of the PDF with you having to awkwardly cursor around. But
it'll display OK. I scanned some travel book pages as a PDF and got maps
and stuff for when I was in Cologne last week.
If you want to send me a sample PDF to look at, I'm happy to do that.
I haven't tried any really complex PDFs, but I did do a couple of brochures
from the people I was meeting with, so it handles powerpoint-level
complexity just fine.
> Also how easy/hard is it to download a PDF from the
> web and transfer it to the Kindle?
Trivial. If you want the actual PDF, then plug in the Kindle as a USB drive
and copy it to K:\Documents.
If you want to convert a PDF into text (because, say, the PDF is mostly
text), then you email it to your Kindle's email address with "convert" in
the subject line, and amazon either charges you $0.15 to wirelessly zoop it
to your kindle, or amazon emails you a link to a .AMZ file which you can
click on and then copy into K:\Documents for free. There's a limit of 25
files at once (which you can zip up or attach separately) *per request*, but
you can bop off several requests and then download all the results.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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