Stanza: the truly portable document format
iPhone users with a penchant for digging into long documents are often frustrated by the need to zoom and scroll sideways while navigating pdfs formatted for being enjoyed on a bigger screen, to say nothing of larger documents often bumping up against the limits of reader application memory.
A useful workaround is to open the document you have chosen to peruse on the move in the Stanza desktop application and share it with the iPhone app. This gives you virtually instantaneous access to an easily readable document that you can search through and bookmark.
Sorry Gerry, the next time you’re travelling, you’ll have no excuse for escaping into a novel instead of digesting that weighty report you’d been meaning to read…
If only pdfs were properly structured…