hello,

was wondering if anyone can recommend a nice (preferably free) pocket pc
reader for pdbs, pdfs and other e book formats?

Thanks! :)

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html

The above is the only pdf reader which supports "tagging" in pdf files
which allow text to "wrap" to fit into the small ppc screen.

Tips;

Use the activesync install which also installs an activesync "plugin"
which will attempt to "tag" synced pdf's (wmdc, sorry, don't think that
works yet)

Use the menu "exit" option when finished reading to prevent the reader
from draining the battery when the device is powered off.

Ignore the "old program" warning on install... it should work on any
pocketpc... but does not run on smartphones (no stylus)

For help, http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef38cea/ is a better forum
for reader problems, limits and info.

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

Thank you - I appreciate your input but that is one big piece of software
that seriously lags on my machine, so I was looking for alternatives. Still,
thanks for replying.



"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:eMhZdOPdJHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html
>
> The above is the only pdf reader which supports "tagging" in pdf files
> which allow text to "wrap" to fit into the small ppc screen.
>
> Tips;

>> that seriously lags on my machine <<

might try
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adob...er-ppc2002.exe


If it's not running, it can't lag it, hence the "exit" tip... that and
it can be installed to a memory card.

imho, the inability to "wrap" which is common to all current
alternatives makes the reader unusable... that said, might "still" take
a look at Foxit.

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

ablack wrote:

> was wondering if anyone can recommend a nice (preferably free) pocket pc
> reader for pdbs, pdfs and other e book formats?

For any other format than the misbegotten pdfs, try Gowerpoint's
microbook. Except that for MS .lit, MS Reader is about the only choice.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

At 12 Jan 2009 22:05:49 +0100 ablack wrote:
> Thank you - I appreciate your input but that is one big piece of
software
> that seriously lags on my machine, so I was looking for alternatives.
Still,
> thanks for replying.

Sadly, it's the only PDF reader that tagfiles for word wrap.

For ebooks I use Microsoft Reader, and use the Reader plug-in for Word to
convert .txt files to Reader's .lit format.

This doesn't help with DRM'd files you can't import into Word, of course.

Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html
>
> The above is the only pdf reader which supports "tagging" in pdf files
> which allow text to "wrap" to fit into the small ppc screen.
>
> Tips;
>
> Use the activesync install which also installs an activesync "plugin"
> which will attempt to "tag" synced pdf's (wmdc, sorry, don't think that
> works yet)
>
> Use the menu "exit" option when finished reading to prevent the reader
> from draining the battery when the device is powered off.
>
> Ignore the "old program" warning on install... it should work on any
> pocketpc... but does not run on smartphones (no stylus)
>
> For help, http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef38cea/ is a better forum
> for reader problems, limits and info.
>
> Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

I don't know about tagging, but foxit reader does a pretty nice job
with pdfs in landscape mode on a 640x480 screen...if you've got good eyes.
If it's just text, aren't there utilities to convert pdf to text?
There's always text to speech.
mike

I use Pocketxpdf and find it by far the best PPC PDF reader and it's
free.

http://pocketxpdf.en.softonic.com/pocketpc

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:22:56 +0100, "ablack" <arcturusblack@net.hr>
wrote:

>hello,
>
>was wondering if anyone can recommend a nice (preferably free) pocket pc
>reader for pdbs, pdfs and other e book formats?
>
>Thanks! :)
>

Any chance that it wraps text?

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

No, but it has a very flexible zoom that makes this less of an issue.
You can drag a rectangle which zooms to exactly fill the screen width
or height.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:44:47 -0600, "Beverly Howard
[Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote:

>Any chance that it wraps text?
>
>Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

>> No, but... <<

Most of my pdf needs are text centric... full pages of text which,
without tagging, requires horizontally scrolling each line which is not
a realistic option for more than a page or two.

>> ...it has a very flexible zoom that makes this less of an issue.
You can drag a rectangle which zooms to exactly fill the screen width
or height. <<

fwiw, the adobe ppc reader has this as well.

Thanks for the link, have it in my list of alternatives.

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

At 19 Jan 2009 12:11:29 -0600 Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> >> No, but... <<
>
> Most of my pdf needs are text centric... full pages of text which,
> without tagging, requires horizontally scrolling each line which is not
> a realistic option for more than a page or two.
>
> >> ...it has a very flexible zoom that makes this less of an issue.
> You can drag a rectangle which zooms to exactly fill the screen width
> or height. <<
>
> fwiw, the adobe ppc reader has this as well.
>
> Thanks for the link, have it in my list of alternatives.


I've been toyng with the idea of ditching mobile use of PDFs altogether!

At http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp, you can upload your PDFs,
and redownload them as Word .doc files, with graphics intact. The Word
docs obviously wrap, and you can edit them to adjust font, text size, etc.

The company offers this service to show off their desktop software that
they sell to perform these conversions.

>> pdf converter http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp <<

Sounds like a great resource... thanks for the link.

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

At 20 Jan 2009 10:30:55 -0600 Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> >> pdf converter http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp <<
>
> Sounds like a great resource... thanks for the link.
>

My pleasure- unfortunately Pocket IE/IE Mobile seems to lack the ability
to upload a file, so you need to do it from a PC.

If I get bored later tonight, I might try and see if Opera or Netfront
can do it.

Ran a test with a 100 page file I use for comparisons yesterday...

While if did a good job on what it converted, there are a couple of
considerations;

The converter had around a 20 page size limit on this file... a mix of
text, images and tables... a size limit is significant since there is no
way to "chunk" a pdf file into smaller pieces to process them separately.

Huge size difference... the 100 page pdf was 3.3 megs... the 21 pages in
rtf ended up at 13.2 megs which would have been around 65 megs had the
conversion been complete... a twenty fold size jump.

The inability to upload with pie bites again... surprised that no one
has come up with a ppc utility where you ender the upload page url and
it uploads to that destination... number of considerations such as
"after upload, then what?"

Thanks again... will be great for most pdf's

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]