Cerience's Repligo Viewer Free

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.cerience.com/pages/news/071703.htm">http://www.cerience.com/pages/news/071703.htm</a><br /><br />It seems Cerience is following Adobe's Acrobat model - sell the publishing software and give the viewer away for free. I think this is great news for those that want to <i>easily</i> publish all kinds of information and not worry about the client. Repligo viewers are available for the Pocket PC, PalmOS, the Nokia 3650/7650 phone, Sony Ericsson P800 phone, all MS Smartphones (standards has advantages huh? ;) ) and Windows desktops.<br /><br />The publishing and conversion software for Windows desktops is between $24.95 and $29.95. You can also add the button below to your web site encouraging people to download the viewers so they can take your content with them. Over the air downloads are available at their site.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.repligo.com"><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/repligo_button.gif" /></a><br /><br />I've been using Repligo on my Pocket PC for several months now and love it. It is the perfect method to transfer long memos, web pages, Adobe PDF files and just about anything else you want to read or view on your device. I'd love to see this take off as a standard for mobile content distribution, and given the quality of the software and the number of platforms supported, I'd say Cerience is on the right track.

[ctmagnus]

RepliGo runs circles around Acrobat Viewer. And it's so tiny and fast, too! And you can view your PDFs in it, too!! (albeit with the obligatory conversion). Adobe has tanked in the Pocket PC market, as far as I'm concerned.

[Jason Dunn]

VERY cool! :D

[dh]

I've been using Repligo for a few months and it is one of my four core applications.
Version 1.1 for PPC is a a really good product if you need to view your documents on the go.
One of the things I like about this company is that they are easy to communicate with. They have a great forum and always seem to listen to input from users.
Great product, cool company.

[Janak Parekh]

Agreed with all the above sentiments. Cerience should keep on pushing -- they've got fantastic competition to Adobe's Acrobat. Not only is Acrobat bloated on the Pocket PC, it's bloated on the desktop too. I can't count how many times I've crashed ACROBAT.EXE. :pukeface:

Oh, and those of you curious about trying RepliGo (the publishing part) -- I warn you, you might not be able to turn back and may be forced to buy it. :mrgreen:

--janak

[Fzara]

I agree; an excellent utility for converting documents and webpages on the fly.

However, one thing that i've been wondering how to do is how to read the text on a website. For example, the other day I converted Dellnet by MSN, and I wasn't able to read the entire page's contents in the proper format. I was able to zoom in and out on the page, and I was able to read the page's contents.

It seems like I found it useful for snapping webpages with very little information, or to show a quick page layout of the site. Correct me if i'm wrong; is that not what you use Repligo for?

[Janak Parekh]

However, one thing that i've been wondering how to do is how to read the text on a website. For example, the other day I converted Dellnet by MSN, and I wasn't able to read the entire page's contents in the proper format. I was able to zoom in and out on the page, and I was able to read the page's contents.
Did you try flowed mode in the RepliGo viewer? That's what it makes it so worthwhile.

--janak

[James Fee]

I've personally never had problems with reader, but creating PDFs is still a nightmare.

This is great news. I've really been angry at Adobe for not having a good product on the PPC, now I can use Repligo and my clients can view the documents without having to pay. Very smart!

[Fzara]

I tried Flow mode, but Repligo is still confused as to what to show first.

If theres two crucial features they should add to the program, its that they should have the ability to have the pages showed pageless. It really gets annoying when you have 15 pages and you're sorting through them all on Flowless mode or some other mode.

Also, I really do wish there was a way Repligo could covert documents on the spot on the PPC. How many times are you at your computer, and how many times are you on your PPC wirelessly browsing?

[rmasinag]

A n00b question, but I take it Repligo works like Acrobat and there is a reader for Desktop in addition to PPC? Also can I see the docs on a Mac?

[Ed Hansberry]

Also, I really do wish there was a way Repligo could covert documents on the spot on the PPC. How many times are you at your computer, and how many times are you on your PPC wirelessly browsing?
That wouldn't be possible. To create the document, you need to be able to view the document in its original form and then print it to the "Repligo Printer." If you could see the document in its original form to create it, you wouldn't need Repligo.

A n00b question, but I take it Repligo works like Acrobat and there is a reader for Desktop in addition to PPC? Also can I see the docs on a Mac?

There is a beta reader for Windows and it is quite stable. There isn't a Mac client. You might visit their forums and see if they have plans for one. I am sure you aren't the first to ask and I'd be surprised if a Mac client wasn't in the works.

[davef]

There is a beta reader for Windows and it is quite stable. There isn't a Mac client. You might visit their forums and see if they have plans for one. I am sure you aren't the first to ask and I'd be surprised if a Mac client wasn't in the works.
Actually, the Windows Viewer is out of beta and is now gold. Download it at www.RepliGo.com. As for the Mac version, all I can say is we do have a very good Mac programmer in house. :wink:

PS: Ed, I've read your post on our forum about the problem with running RepliGo off the storage card on an iPAQ. I don't have your exact setup so I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.

[Pony99CA]

It seems Cerience is following Adobe's Acrobat model - sell the publishing software and give the viewer away for free. I think this is great news for those that want to easily publish all kinds of information and not worry about the client. Repligo viewers are available for the Pocket PC, PalmOS, the Nokia 3650/7650 phone, Sony Ericsson P800 phone, all MS Smartphones (standards has advantages huh? ;) ) and Windows desktops.
I agree that this is great. In fact, I suggested it four minutes after RepliGo was announced (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7704) back in January. :-)

Steve

[Ed Hansberry]

There is a beta reader for Windows and it is quite stable. There isn't a Mac client. You might visit their forums and see if they have plans for one. I am sure you aren't the first to ask and I'd be surprised if a Mac client wasn't in the works.
Actually, the Windows Viewer is out of beta and is now gold. Download it at www.RepliGo.com. As for the Mac version, all I can say is we do have a very good Mac programmer in house. :wink: Cool. Downloading now.PS: Ed, I've read your post on our forum about the problem with running RepliGo off the storage card on an iPAQ. I don't have your exact setup so I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.
Well, this is your excuse to march into your bosses office and demand an iPAQ 2215 with a 512MB SD card. :lol:

[davef]

A couple of other points I would like to add...

This release of RepliGo Viewer can be installed over-the-air directly to your Pocket PC, assuming you have a wireless connection of some type. It can also be emailed to your device.

Try it by browsing to www.RepliGo.com right from your Pocket PC. Our server will automatically detect that you are visiting us from a Pocket PC and take you to the correct download page.

We did some work to trim the size of the Viewer in order to cut down on wireless costs. You'll notice that the download size is only 187kb. The full, uncompressed RepliGo Viewer used to be around 500kb. It is now only 355kb.

Additionally, we've created a self-extracting installer that gets us down to that 187kb. So hopefully we can start provisioning people wirelessly (if they so choose) going forward.

One final point. You can browse with Pocket IE directly to RepliGo documents. Try it out with some of our sample files at http://repligo.com/help/hh/samples.htm

[Busdriver]

I took the advice of some folks on this board and have been trying out Repligo. It's like high-speed internet compared to dial-up, once you try it you'll never go back. I'll be purchasing in the next day or two. Much, much faster on my E-125. Makes reading PDF documents practical.

I do hope for bookmarks in a forthcoming version, however.

[ctmagnus]

I do hope for bookmarks in a forthcoming version, however.

And a text selection tool.

[danielzr]

Some features which I need - and I think I've seen old emails that they're working on at least some of these...

A) Live table of contents
B) Search function
(with large documents - these are both needed)
(yah - bookmarks too)

C)Reflow to include tables (like Adobe's PPC reader does) - right now, the documents which I've tested become useless, due to tables...

D)Annotations - saveable back to PC
E)scroll down to next page (minor).

I've emailed the company... but, unless there's going to be a free upgrade to these features... I'm sitting it out for now...

[Dave Beauvais]

... I've emailed the company... but, unless there's going to be a free upgrade to these features... I'm sitting it out for now...
Quoting from an e-mail I got from them yesterday, "registered users ... are eligible for free updates to minor releases (1.xx)." If you purchase RepliGo now, you get free upgrades to all v1.x releases. When they release v2, you'll likley have to pay for that, and I would hope they've have an upgrade discount when that time comes.

--Dave

[Jeff Rutledge]

I'm glad they've made the PPC installer available separately as well. I tend to hard reset my iPAQ a lot more than I rebuild my Laptop. Every time I wanted to install RepliGo on the PPC, I had to uninstall it from the Laptop first (which required a reboot) because there was just one installer (both PC and PPC).

I'd ultimately like a shortcut in the Program Group to "Reinstall PPC Viewer" that would just launch the PPC installer.

[jmoy]

...I'd ultimately like a shortcut in the Program Group to "Reinstall PPC Viewer" that would just launch the PPC installer.
We didn't put it in the Program Group, but the feature has always been available by opening "Reinstall Viewer.exe" which lives in C:\Program Files\Cerience\RepliGo by default. It launches the ActiveSync app manager on the appropriate .CAB file, just like the normal product installer does.

Of course, as of version 1.2 you can just download the more easily re-distributable viewer installer, which does the same thing but is packaged up more nicely.

[Jeff Rutledge]

...I'd ultimately like a shortcut in the Program Group to "Reinstall PPC Viewer" that would just launch the PPC installer.
We didn't put it in the Program Group, but the feature has always been available by opening "Reinstall Viewer.exe" which lives in C:\Program Files\Cerience\RepliGo by default. It launches the ActiveSync app manager on the appropriate .CAB file, just like the normal product installer does.

Of course, as of version 1.2 you can just download the more easily re-distributable viewer installer, which does the same thing but is packaged up more nicely.

Thanks for the tip! Like you say, it's better now with the new viewer, but I would have loved to have known about that a couple months ago. For some reason, my iPAQ lost it's AS connection during install, so I had to remove RepliGo from my PC (and reboot) a second time. I was going batty! :D I got over it though.

Great product. I hope it continues to grow and grow! Good job!

[ctmagnus]

I'm glad they've made the PPC installer available separately as well. I tend to hard reset my iPAQ a lot more than I rebuild my Laptop. Every time I wanted to install RepliGo on the PPC, I had to uninstall it from the Laptop first (which required a reboot) because there was just one installer (both PC and PPC).

I'd ultimately like a shortcut in the Program Group to "Reinstall PPC Viewer" that would just launch the PPC installer.

I just snatched the cab file from the folder it installed to. Stick it on your device, double tap and your away.

[Jeff Rutledge]

I'm glad they've made the PPC installer available separately as well. I tend to hard reset my iPAQ a lot more than I rebuild my Laptop. Every time I wanted to install RepliGo on the PPC, I had to uninstall it from the Laptop first (which required a reboot) because there was just one installer (both PC and PPC).

I'd ultimately like a shortcut in the Program Group to "Reinstall PPC Viewer" that would just launch the PPC installer.

I just snatched the cab file from the folder it installed to. Stick it on your device, double tap and your away.

Just copied it. Thanks for the tip. I've tried just copying CAB files to my device before and it doesn't always seem to work.

[danielzr]

Well, those features could be considered 'major' features and may warrant them calling it 'version 2.0'....

I have no use for it until it's got those features. Currently, I use either Textmaker for Word files or a freeware PDF creator with the Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer.

... I've emailed the company... but, unless there's going to be a free upgrade to these features... I'm sitting it out for now...
Quoting from an e-mail I got from them yesterday, "registered users ... are eligible for free updates to minor releases (1.xx)." If you purchase RepliGo now, you get free upgrades to all v1.x releases. When they release v2, you'll likley have to pay for that, and I would hope they've have an upgrade discount when that time comes.

--Dave

[danielzr]

Well, all my requests are 'high on their priority list' - so it seems they're working on it...

[msprague]

Currently, I use either Textmaker for Word files or a freeware PDF creator with the Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer.

Do you have a link for the PDF creator?