Poor support for complex pdf layouts

pdf files with complex layouts (2 columns, sidebars, etc.) aren't properly formatted when opened with stanza desktop. The words from different columns are mixed up, and spaces are removed from some sentences, turning them into one long word.

I would love to be able to read my scientific journal articles on my ipod, so could you please improve the pdf feature? Thanks!

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Making it so a PDF can be

Making it so a PDF can be "reflowed" on a small screen is a difficult technical problem. This is discussed somewhat at http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/pdf_issues. We do hope to improve our PDF support as time goes on, but the results will never be perfect.

PDF is notorious as a format

PDF is notorious as a format that is hard to convert reliably to any other ebook format. For complex PDf documents you will nearly allways be better off with a dedicated PDF reader on the iTouch/iPhone.

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