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Best PDF reader?

Troglodad

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Jan 22, 2009
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Trying to decide on the best PDF reader for Android...

I have considered Documents to Go, but it's so huge, and does so much more than just read PDFs. Also, you can't try out the PDF reader before you buy.

I just want to read ebooks- my old Palm Tungsten E2 still works great, but I can' be carrying two handhelds around all the time...
 
my txtReader.PDF is a pure text reader for PDF. It's free. Hope you like it ;)
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Am having 4 of them on my Android: Adobe Reader, MobilePDFViewer, PDFtoGo, PDFviewer(os) and none of them really 'succeeds' in reflowing a standard pdf. People allover are saving word-etc-files with a pdf-printclient. Standardly a pdf-printclient doesn't save files as pdf/A-1a or tagged pdf. Increadible that Adobe didn't think of the small devices of today. Or Adobe thought of it, too late, but makes transcoding extremely difficult if not in possession of certain Adobe editors. A solution could be to extract the text of a standard non-A-1a-pdf. But eventhen, this doesn't always work with some types of built-in glyph fonts. Really, pdf was meant to be extremely readable! Pdf has the advantage of text and graphics in 1 file, but today, pdf suffers. Or what to think of the fact that Adobe's own Android app doesn't satisfy fully?
(simple) HTML (alla Tim Berners-Lee - with possibly some non-extensive css) reads best on most phones and smart phones of whatever kind. It has the disadvantage of depending on external, not internal, imgs (img files). Helas.
Another solution to the reflow problem could be to scale all text and images in files in percentages. Percentages which adapt to any screen. With the possibility of quickly enlarging/zooming images on small screens. Percentages, think of them!
 
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Trying to decide on the best PDF reader for Android...

I have considered Documents to Go, but it's so huge, and does so much more than just read PDFs. Also, you can't try out the PDF reader before you buy.

I just want to read ebooks- my old Palm Tungsten E2 still works great, but I can' be carrying two handhelds around all the time...

According to my views, Adobe PDF reader app is one of the best PDF ebook reader app for Android. However, you may checkout the review of top 3 best PDF reader app for Android.
 
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I'd like to read large (around 10 MB) PDF files (on Archos 7 V2) containing simple graphics. So far I have tried
1. BeamReader - it took like 2 min(!) to open the file, then the speed was good
2. Adobe Reader - fast, no extra features, often crashes
3. MobilePDFViewer - simple reader, but it takes 5s to switch a page
4. APV PDF Viewer - pretty fast, many options and useful features (color inversion, vertical scroll lock..), didn't crash while being tested

However none of the above listed apps wasn't able to open this PDF found if you Google for "ESLII_print5.pdf" and chose the first link (Stanford university)
Do you know any reader capable of reading this file?
 
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