Adobe Reader vs. Quickoffice

[BlueIce5249]

Now that the Adobe reader has been released for Android. What are the advantages of downloading a separate app that does what quickoffice already does? I've always wondered why people would download another .pdf reader when our phones already read .pdfs.

 

[tomato88]

Adobe Reader offers Pinch-to-zoom, and faster and more accurate rendering. I've noticed that QuickOffice takes too long to render .pdf's with a lot of images. Since it's for free, why not try it? It's actually good.

 

[godfish]

Crap I bought Docstogo last week.

 

[leftystrat]

I instinctively don't trust anything that comes from Adobe.
On the pc side, the app is a pig (and that's being polite). Adobe doesn't care about safety or privacy and their apps phone home.

A good free replacement for the pc is Sumatra.
There's a ton of support on the linux side.
There are Droid apps, including Open Office (unfortunately slow).

Try them all out and see what works for you.

 

[tjreishus]

I love the new app from adobe. Love the pinch to zoom and the speed of it.

 

[labphoto]

Adobe Reader offers Pinch-to-zoom, and faster and more accurate rendering. I've noticed that QuickOffice takes too long to render .pdf's with a lot of images. Since it's for free, why not try it? It's actually good.

That's odd, my experience is the exact opposite of yours. I found Adobe takes longer to render and the pinch to zoom wasn't that big of a deal for me.

 

[(G)]

What's interesting to me is that I received a PDF receipt from a company in email. When I opened it in both Open Office and Documents to Go, the PDF was blank (except for a few gray lines in the background design of the "stationery.")

However when I opened that same PDF in Adobe Reader, I was able to read the full text.

So for that alone, it's worth having the Adobe option on my Droid.

 

[SoDroid]

My biggest gripe with Quickoffice is that I can't zoom in. Often when I receive pdfs, I need to zoom in to decipher hardly legible hand writing. Maybe its the files I was viewing or something, but I could not zoom in so Quickoffice wasn't really a good option for me. I'm about to give adobe reader a try!

 

[sooper_droid12]

Crap I bought Docstogo last week.

D2G opens other things other than pdf files. So, it's still useful.