News and PDF fetcher? - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Hey Guys
Does anyone know an app which can fetch custom RSS Feeds and PDF files on a regular basis for offline viewing?
Background: We have some free newspapers here who offer an online pdf edition or rss feeds. Like the News Reader which is pre-installed I want to fetch the pdf edition on a daily basis... The newsreader which is installed can do that as well, but I refuse to pay for a newspaper which is free. For the RSS Feeds I tried Spool and Readability but both have no options to fetch something automatically on a regular basis...
Help would be appreciated

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--> jTalk.
--> The built in email client.
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langov3 said:
Quick office HD is supposed to be the best office app for android, but they haven't made it compatible with the Prime yet. Other than that you could just use Polaris to make drafts.
The google cloud print is also useful for printing to network printers, but the computers on the network need to have Chrome.
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I'm mainly just using my prime for doing drafts of assignments and recording lectures when I have an early lecture and cannot fight the urge to sleep. But stuff like formulate pro and the periodic tale app would be useful too. All my lecture slides are released in PDFs so the Adobe reader is useful.
Does anyone know of a way of printing to non-wireless network printers, not using a browser?
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Quick Office HD work on the Prime if you buy it from Amazon Appstore

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Hi,
I started to use RSS on my Prime and I am disapointed by one thing. Maybe there is a bad settings or something... Some of my RSS are displayed in full length with pictures etc. and some has only few first rows and then I have to continue to the original article clicking the link below.
Can I set this in a different way or is it a feature of particular blogs and sites?? This is really bothering to everytime go to the original source, especially when offline reading Note: I tried several RSS readers (Reader HD, gReader, Google Reader, ...)
I have also noticed the truncated feeds on some sites, and I think this is determined by the site itself as to what to include in the feed. For example, Lifehacker seems to only include the first few sentences of the article, and then a More >> link. This seems to be the case when either viewing the feed on a computer (using Google Reader or Feedly) or on the Android RSS reader (like Reader HD).
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I thought that it will be a problem of those sites. I watch some local (Czech) sites. Well, it is pitty and bothering this way. But probably we cannot do anything with that.
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Search for "full rss feed" to find other services.
rospenz said:
There are several services that expand truncated RSS feeds into the complete text. The one I use is fulltextrssfeed.com, and it seems to work fine.
Search for "full rss feed" to find other services.
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Geat! Thank you! It works.... I hope the link generated by this site will stay there for a long time

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