Guest Pinball_Wizard Posted February 11, 2003 Report Posted February 11, 2003 There is still no way to view PDF files - why??????
Guest HelloDave Posted February 11, 2003 Report Posted February 11, 2003 There's been quite a lot of discussion on this, but looking at the power of the phone a pdf viewer doesn't seem likely - Acrobat Reader is slow enough on a desktop PC! If an app was made it would be probably be full commercial software, with a price to match :)
Guest edupin Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 I do not think it is a matter of processor speed or power: an Acrobat Reader version already exists for Palm OS (33 mhz processor...) and it is fast and easy to use. And free of charge.
Guest HelloDave Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 Is it a commercial product though? If it is then signing would be an issue, making it unlikely to be freeware. If and when SmartPhone becomes a more popular platform a developer may be tempted to write an Acrobat Reader app, but I can't see it happening for a while, as I think it would have to be coded from the ground up, which would take a lot of effort on the developer's part.
Guest DigitalNome Posted April 7, 2003 Report Posted April 7, 2003 One way it to use Speed Reader Plus. It can read pdf files that you send to the phone from your desktop using the Library Utility. You get the Library Utility with the speed reader. They install at the same time.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 7, 2003 Report Posted April 7, 2003 Alternatively look into Repligo when its released in a few weeks. Looks great, reads practically any file type you can think of :lol: See: www.cerience.com
Guest DigitalNome Posted April 7, 2003 Report Posted April 7, 2003 true but with repligo you have to scroll all the time and that makes for slow reading and sore fingers. you don't have to scroll with SRP and it also can send just about any file you can think of to the phone for reading :lol:
Guest DigitalNome Posted April 7, 2003 Report Posted April 7, 2003 Mono, Good point but most ebooks dont contain pictures. I do see the value in it if you have a technical document with alot of drawings but i thinnk a person that reads a lot of tecnical documents with drawings would manage better with a Pocket PC Phone Edition. Thanks
Guest Emad Posted April 7, 2003 Report Posted April 7, 2003 Would it be all that hard to put in an auto-scroll feature? My ebook reader for the palm had one - just have a button activating/deactiving a timer tied into the scroll event, easy peasy..
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 7, 2003 Report Posted April 7, 2003 Mono, Good point but most ebooks dont contain pictures. This isn't an ebook thread ;p
Guest fraser Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 With pictures? Depends on the types of "book" you read. I've got a great one about a dog named Spot... :wink: PDFs are the Acrobat format, for a very expensive authoring tool of the same name, made by Adobe. They produce the reader (Acrobat) free of charge, in order to gain popularity for their tools. It wouldn't be much of a useful authoring tool if no one could read your docs. So, should a PDF viewer come out for the Smartphone platform, it will be written by Adobe and it would be free. The question is, will the Smartphone gain enough of a following to make it worth their while? If you think so, e-mail them and let them know. If enough folk do, it will greatly increase the chances of it happening. Personally, I don't really care though. I'm not a big fan of proprietry formats, and I've never really liked PDFs, although they certainaly have a place in this world. I also detest the fact that the reader defaults to opening the document inside a web browser on a PC.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 I hate that as well. Acrobat reader within Mozilla on a slow PC is a killer for sure...
Guest fraser Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 Disable "browse in same window" with: Open Explorer, go to Tools/Folder Options. Select the "File Types" tab, then the type you want to fix. Hit the "Advanced" button and deselect "Browse in same window" Repeat for all MS Office file types. Bliss!!
Guest vijay555 Posted April 11, 2003 Report Posted April 11, 2003 pdf/word reader ready to go... http://www.ppcw.net/index.php?itemid=1167
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