[bookport] Re: can book port read .pdf files?

  • From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:54:19 -0500

Except that when you convert a PDF file to text, you often get some 
extremely peculiar and idiosyncratic formatting that can render sections of 
the document almost unusable.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ljmaher@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: can book port read .pdf files?


You can convert the pdf files to text, and read them.

Regards
Louis Maher

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 1:10 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: can book port read .pdf files?


> Unfortunately, the Bookport cannot read .PDF files at this time.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 12:41 PM
> To: bookport
> Subject: [bookport] can book port read .pdf files?
>
>
> I am thinking about purchasing a book port, and am wondering if the book
>
> port can read .pdf files?   If so, can the book port give you a choice
> on
> whether to read  a .pdf file as two seperate columns, like a magazine,
> or a
> novel scanned  or a single column, like a standard document from word or
>
> what not?
>
> Thanks
>
> Keith
>
>
>
>



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