06-05-2003, 07:55 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
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What's wrong with PDFs!
If you can argue the case for PDF's being bad: I'd like to see it!
They are great, nobody talks about them and before someone even considers doing so: someone else says, before they do, that they're bad.
Nothing wrong with PDF's.
Ahem.
Yes. PDF's are great.
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06-05-2003, 08:01 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 401
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Yeah PDFs are great...once they've been through Repligo! PDFs are fine and dandy for PCs but they just don't cut it on a PPC. They just weren't made to fit a screen that small.
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06-05-2003, 08:02 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2003
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Erm.
Why shouldn't they not work well on P/PC's?
If you use the reflow button on the PC it'll fill that screen...?
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06-05-2003, 08:09 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Some PDFs seem to work perfectly with reflow, but some insist on being difficult. And some just wont reflow properly AND have useful size font. But hey maybe I'm just spoiled. Repligo makes them seem as though they were made for the PPC. :lol:
I think as with most things in life, it is a matter of personal preference. I just find PDFs to be more trouble than they are worth on my PPC. There are just too many easy to use, feature packed readers available.
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06-05-2003, 11:11 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 441
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PDF is a format for providing print-ready copies of documents which look and print regardless of computing platform. That is, Korova Moloko promotional pamphlet 1138 looks and prints the same on Window, Mac, Unix, Geoworks. Great for graphic-intensive, layout-intensive, and appearance-critical publications (marketing material, schematics, hypertext books with all of the above).
They're not really designed for "reading" on a thin, portable computing platform.
Sure, you can tweak and cram and stuff a PDF to be useful on a PDA ... but there are better ways, with less overhead, to read a doc on a PDA.
It's a matter of different application.
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06-05-2003, 11:15 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2003
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I like pdf on my PPC as well  . I haven't had any problems with it, maybe I've just been lucky with my documents? Mind you, I haven't tried pdf-files larger than about 4 MB. But they've worked like a charm - pictures and all! I really liked the fact that the pictures are kept in their original size, so I could zoom in on them. This was a pdf dermatology file, so seeing details in the pics was vital for it to be of any use. I doubt that could be done on Repligo(?)
I also find the zoom feature working nicely, and the reflow, too. It's head and shoulders above PocketWord (which really suck at converting files! :evil: ) And I really like the fact that I don't have to convert anything, I just drag the original pdf file into my PPC folder!
This being said, I might just give Repligo a try, because of all the file formats it supportes, and the fact that Repligo compresses the files better.
Thomas.
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06-05-2003, 11:40 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I'm loving .pdf on my ipaq. There's just so much out there in this format. It is useful to convert them sometimes, of course.
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06-06-2003, 02:45 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2003
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I posted a message a couple of weeks back about using .pdf files. My experience is that they are very sloooooow! If you don't agree, I double-dog-dare-you to try repligo and then tell me how fast you think the adobe viewer is. Don't take me up on the dare unless you are willing to shell out the $20 :wink:
Next to pocket informant, it is probably my favorite software on my PPC.
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06-06-2003, 03:34 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by jensenjb
I posted a message a couple of weeks back about using .pdf files. My experience is that they are very sloooooow! If you don't agree, I double-dog-dare-you to try repligo and then tell me how fast you think the adobe viewer is. Don't take me up on the dare unless you are willing to shell out the $20 :wink:
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Agreed. I lost, and had to shell out the money a while ago.
Anyway, to be more precise, there's nothing wrong with PDFs on Pocket PCs, except for the speed. RepliGo has about the same functionality as Adobe Acrobat Reader, except that (a) it's much smaller, (b) it's much much much much much much much faster, and (c) the RGO files are smaller. Did I mention faster? I am honestly not making this up at all.
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06-06-2003, 03:40 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 441
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BTW, aside from using them on PPC, I find that Adobe Acrobat 4 is grrrreat for making cross-platform docs of my resume, of files with tables and charts, ... and particularly , web pages. Using the web capture feature, I can import one -- or several -- pages from paid-access web sites, with working links to pages which I've also imported, and send the PDF to a friend for reading. Very handy. It's almost worth buying.
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