[Q] Looking for a PDF reader (specific requirements) - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I'm looking for a PDF reader, but I have fairly specific requests. Firstly, it must support annotation (fairly easy to find) Next, it must support bluetooth keyboard arrow keys for turning to next page (surprisingly much harder to find). Last but not least (perhaps more important?), I'd love if it were possible to set different view modes depending on the orientation of the PDF. I use my tablet for university lecture notes, some of which are Powerpoints converted to PDFs, meaning each page is a slide and is landscape. For these, I like full page view, the whole slide on screen at once, go to next page for next slide. Others are portrait pages of notes, which are impossible to read in full page view as it is so zoomed out (7" tab), and so I use continuous for those PDFs. It is annoying to have to change it pretty much every time I open a PDF, seeing as it almost always seems to be in the wrong mode. Ideally, it could also take into account the orientation of the tablet (e.g. full page view when tablet & PDF orientation match, continuous when they don't), but at the very least I really want it to take the PDF orientation into account.
So far I have tried Adobe Reader, ezPDF, Foxit, qPDF, SmartQ Reader, QuickOffice PDF and SmartOffice PDF. Currently I'm using SmartOffice, as it seems to be the only one which does full page view & supports bluetooth keyboard, but it's annotation features are extremely basic, and it's no good for portrait PDFs. (I'd rather use one app for all PDFs so I can set it as my default and not get bothered by prompts everytime I open a PDF).
If anyone has any suggestions (preferably with at least a free trial), I'd appreciate it.

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[Q] Reading pdfs very cumbersome on TG01

HI All,
The Adobe Reader on TG01 hampers readabilty, as I increase the font size I have to slide the text all the while. I tried to install another Adobe2 programme, but it didn't work at all. What can I do? I'm in dire need of reading books and articles, as I can't carry my notebook everywhere. Please HELP!
regards,
shahzadahmad said:
HI All,
The Adobe Reader on TG01 hampers readabilty, as I increase the font size I have to slide the text all the while. I tried to install another Adobe2 programme, but it didn't work at all. What can I do? I'm in dire need of reading books and articles, as I can't carry my notebook everywhere. Please HELP!
regards,
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You can try using TG01 in landscape mode to read pdf files, it might reduce the number of times you want to scroll or you could use other softwares that could open pdf files. However, since pdf versions can be opened only by few softwares and adobe being one of the best, I don't think you would find increased benefits of using anything else. TG01 has a massive screen so you already are in benefit of not scrolling as much as you might do in smaller phones!
Landscape view for reading is what I normally do. What
I normally use landscape view for reading but here I mean when I had Imate Jamin, I could read pdfs very easily with the Adobe2, because it had text wrapping function. The default Adobe doesn't have this text wrapping function. Can anyone suggest how the problem can be solved?
shahzadahmad said:
I normally use landscape view for reading but here I mean when I had Imate Jamin, I could read pdfs very easily with the Adobe2, because it had text wrapping function. The default Adobe doesn't have this text wrapping function. Can anyone suggest how the problem can be solved?
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There are two types of PDF documents:
1) Image based or scanned documents (without OCR process) , that are just graphic documents, and
2) text documents (from a text source or OCR process)
1) Regarding the first type, we are limited by the screen size (I agree with other replies, working in landscape can help us). We can only scrolling across the document using a PDF reader. For this, I recommend Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com).
2) If instead, the pdf is based on text, the Adobe Reader that comes with the TG01 is useless, because it don't have the text re-flow option (I think that it's the same that shahzadahmad calls "text wrapping function")
You have to replace the Adobe Reader version. Mine is LE 2.5.00
If you want to try it, I've uploaded my copy, but it's in Spanish. I think that if you search a bit, you will find the same version (or newer) in English.
For text only, another great possibility is convert the PDF on EPUB with Calibra or AnyBizSoft PDF to EPUB and reading it with FREDA (a free EPUB reader)
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/freda6.htm. The reading experience it's much better (but you need an external PC to convert the document)
Hope this help you
UPDATE: I've just discovered a web site where you can convert online documents to EPUB and FREE!! : http://www.2epub.com/

PDF annotating

I have an issue with the PDF viewer. When you write on it with the pen, even with the smallest pen settings, it writes WAY to large. When you zoom into a specific paragraph and annotate it, it looks like a child's marker did the annotating.
Has anyone been able to use the native E-reader (which does not have the issue) to work on PDF's? Or any other solution?
The pen size in PDF Viewer is a known issue.
Never thought about converting into ePUB for annotation in Reader... I use Calibre to convert PDFs to epub on my desktop. For me the extra conversion steps would not be very convenient... Maybe a long pdf or reference... But not the "everyday pdf in a email for work" type doc. Worth a shot though.
That is true, just trying to find a reason to keep the flyer. I love most things about it, but I bought it specifically for pdf annotating.
I'm on the same boat.
If you check forum.xda-developers.showthread.php?t=1097375&page=2 Gathering uploaded some samples. These open fine in Foxit for me, and I can modify those annotations.
Using the app is a different story though. Unless Foxit/HTC update the app I think all you can do is wait.

[Q] Everything about PDF

I put some pdfs and an m4v and flv video on the device, organized in folders. I go in acrobat reader and it seems to find the pdfs, but just puts them in a single list, rather than showing the file hierarchy.
I would like to be able to browse the file hierarchy and touch a file and have it open. I have a lot of pdfs to put in the device and they need to be organized, not one big list.
Also would like to search for text in PDFs.
Ideally I am looking for something similar to ipad's Goodreader wher you can organize a hieararchy of mixed file types, PDF and video, and view any of them.
Acrobat reader and Quick Office seem to be a little slow to load. I am wondering if there is an app for this that is quick loading.
Any ideas?
Agree that Acrobat reader is one of the worst PDF readers all across the pad platforms. But unfortunately it seems that's the only choice on webos. Hope this wave of TP can bring some new PDF reader to it.
[Q] How to search through a PDF?
please excuse the question but I tried google a few times and couldn't get anything. Can the default adobe PDF viewer even search documents? If it can how the hell can I find the option? Is there anything 3rd party that allows searching through pdfs?
[Q] PDF Reading and Citrix?
To current owners, how is reading pdfs on the TP? Is it snappy like Ipad 2 and how about large pdfs like 100mb or greater? I dont really care about annotations.
Also does Citrix work? I saw an ad showing Citrix working. Thx
For the pdf file it's very fast and snappy,very usable, but only tested with a couple of 50Mo one, if you have bigger to test give me a link.
About citrix, take a look here:
http://forums.precentral.net/webos-development/190779-request-citrix-app.html
And
http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/02/09/...ake-webos-devices-enterprise-ready-at-launch/
Ok, I couldn't resist the temptation and got a Touchpad to play with. The two hospital pages where I use Citrix to access medical records don't work. The demo on Youtube looks so smooth . Adobe Acrobat on the WebOS is just as horrid as on the Android platform. There is no way, I can sit there read the PDFs in this condition. The letters all look fuzzy, and I don't think this is purely an issue with resolution and display. The software doesn't fully render it.
The good part is that flash works really well from the browser. Very well done. Also the cards arrangement of the overall OS is the best I have seen out of all 3 tablet platforms. It's unfortunate. I think it just take a little more work from HP to make it competitive.
1. A better screen. It's listed as IPS display but no where close to the Ipad.
2. Work out the small bugs in the WebOS
This pad desperately needs Alkido.
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please excuse the question but I tried google a few times and couldn't get anything. Can the default adobe PDF viewer even search documents? If it can how the hell can I find the option? Is there anything 3rd party that allows searching through pdfs?
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Not to the best of my knowledge, I've looked through every option and nothing. I also asked this same question about searching PDFs and never got a response. FYI I have a few 40mb+ pdfs w/ schematic drawings and it has the tendency of chugging along or even worse it loses the menu bar uptop where I can select pages from. I'll get stuck on page 230 out of 500 and will have to close the card down and open it up again to get the number list.

[Q] Science Journals

Just wondering if anyone has tried reading journal articles on their nook tablet. I'll download several articles a week (.pdf normally) and was wondering how reading this type of document works out. This is probably 50% of what I'd use the nook for so it's fairly important to me. Most common journal I read articles from is probably Journal of Neurosurgery. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.
It depends on the PDF. For text-heavy content, it should be fine. For text+graphics, it's not.
The problem is the 1024x600 (1.7:1) aspect ratio, in conjunction with the small 7" size. The width is simply not large enough to accommodate standard 8.5x11 (1.3:1) page layout, and manually zooming in/out will be de rigueur. You can turn it 90 degrees to get the width needed, but then the shortened height will cause excessive vertical scrolling. In short, it's a lot of hassle.
For text-only content (most ebooks), the text can reflow to fit the elongated aspect, so there isn't a problem.
IMO, for scientific journals, a 4:3 aspect screen is a must, along with a 10" size minimum. For now, that limits your choice to the iPad, as all major-brand Android tabs have 16:10 aspect. It's not a surprise since these cater to consumers, where movie-viewing is the 2nd-largest use case, after web browsing.
I use the nook as a secondary reader if I'm not at a computer or have my printed copies nearby. So far, I have just been using the stock B&N reader app since you can pull up the page icons by tapping the center of the screen. It makes scanning through easy before I zoom in to read what I'm looking for.
I don't know yet about reading papers through the first time on this device...seems like it would not be as good.
I would prefer another app that has the same overview feature, but lets me add notes that I could sync back and see on my computer. Which does you use?
RepliGo was favored for its annotation feature, but I find it inferior to EzPDF in most other aspects. The recent version of EzPDF now also has annotation, although I haven't used the function enough to give an opinion.
There's also Foxit Mobile for Android which has annotate, which I haven't tried. It's a great reader on the PC, so one would think sync'ing would be an option, although I don't see it yet in the User Guide. The Android reader is 1.0, so that'll likely be added if not already available.
http://foxitsoftware.com/products/mobilereader/android/guide.php
http://foxitsoftware.com/products/mobilereader/android/benefits.php
You're probably right, that spot reading sci/tech journals would probably be OK on the NT. I was referring to long-form reading.

[Q] PDF MusicScore Reader

Hi,
I'm looking for an PDF-reader app to view large MusicScore-PDFs (e.g. from imslp.org).
There are much apps, which could read PDFs (I use ezPDF Reader at the moment.), but all of them can only cache the next pages. For reading a Full Orchestral Score sometimes it is necessary to turn some pages back. This takes a long time, which is annoying.
Did you know an app, which could fit? (I don't need page-flipping effects or the possibility to make annotations, I only want the whole pdf to stay in RAM so I could "jump" to any page without lag.)
Thanks a lot.
Simon-PC
PS: I use a Asus TF300TG.

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