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Siygess 		Old
15th July 2011, 03:53 PM
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Default [Q] PoV / Vega and PDFs in portrait
I'm looking to pick up a PoV / Vega, mostly for the viewing of graphically intensive, A4-sized PDF documents but since the usual stockists in the UK no longer seem to have any of these on display I can't try it out for myself..

..so can anyone comment on PDF text readability in full screen and portrait? Does the screen width of 600 necessitate constant zooming, and does the viewing angle make it a generally difficult or unpleasant experience?
 
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16th July 2011, 02:30 PM
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Hi there

I use ezPDF to view magazines on my vega. It does a good job, there are black bars top and bottom, viewing A4 docs in portrait due to the 16:9 screen. But the text is perfectly viewable without zooming in. If the PDF is large in size and contains a lot of images, it does take the vega a second to switch pages. I can only put this down to the amount of ram in the vega, or a problem with ezPDF.

On a different note comic reader mobi works great on the vega. If you like that sort of thing...

Hope it helps

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Siygess 		Old
16th July 2011, 06:13 PM
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On a different note comic reader mobi works great on the vega. If you like that sort of thing...

Hope it helps
I do.. and it does!

I mostly plan to replace my bookshelf of roleplaying games with PDF equivalents (thankfully most publishers launch print and PDF versions of their products at the same time, now) and I'll be changing over my magazine subscriptions to PDF downloads once they become available.

So it seems like the Vega is going to be a good choice. Thanks again!
 
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16th July 2011, 09:21 PM
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I'll echo most of what OG said. ezPDF reader is the best, Adobe's own one runs a little slow on it and the touch screen goes a bit funky. I would say the only problems with viewing PDFs (or anything else) in portrait are the 16:9 orientation (most tablets go for 16:10 now, or 4:3 for iPad) leaving so much unused space, and the viewing angle. The viewing angle isn't much of a problem in landscape but in portrait I can't actually seem to find an angle where it actually looks right... at all. If your PDF is just black type on white you probably won't notice though.
 
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