Excuse me, but are there people in this topic discussing the eventual eyestrain from using pdfs in xbmc? How absurd is that? To put it simple: that is none of your business, that's up to the users.
Ok first the facts: pdfs are one of the most used mediums for text, images or both, nowadays.
Pdfs frequently hold content like comic books, magazines, newspapers, articles, product manuals, mini-presentations, customized photo albums, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc and some more etc.
As some users have described, most pdfs displayed on a large screen tv are perfectly readable, and can conveniently be displayed with 2 pages on-screen at the same time.
If some are, indeed, not readable, due to font size or type, the user will be the first to notice. "Zoom" is also something that has long been invented.
Given the enormous variety of pdf files and types of content, it seems absurd to claim the inutility of such a feature, with subjective reasoning such as "it's not a good idea to read books off a tv screen for hours on end", as gjones stated.
Why "hours on end"? A short article can be read in 2 minutes. Why "books"? Pdfs can hold varied forms of text and picture content.
And even if the user wanted to read 20 pages of Dickens on his large screen tv, displayed with a proper font, would it really be that bad? And wouldn't that be the user's problem, not ours?
Any media center should be obliged to support pdf as much as reading picture files, jpgs, pngs, or just plain text files.
And there are people here saying "you shouldn't use that on your tv, it's bad for your eyes"
Please!!