03-24-2004, 08:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Repligo 2.0 For Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone Released
http://www.cerience.com/pages/news/032404.htm
I've been a Repligo fan since it came out in early 2003. Release 2.0 takes it to the next level with tons of new features. The only feature I wanted and don't see is when reading reflowed text, images are stripped out, which is fine, but I'd like to see a marker telling me there is an image there that has been suppressed. I could then switch to normal mode and see the image. Maybe Repligo 3.0. :?
Repligo 2 showing the full overview and text reflow of the same document.
It is $29.99 for the full version that allows you to create your own Repligo documents from within any application that is capable of printing. Owners of Repligo 1.0 can upgrade for half price. As always, Repligo Viewers only are free. There is a fully functional 14 day trial available.
New features include:
� Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition support. Brilliant, high resolution display of documents on Pocket PCs and Smartphones with VGA and QVGA screens. The Pocket PC version is compatible with devices that dynamically switch between portrait and landscape orientations.
� New bookmark, comment and hyperlink features. Automatic conversion of bookmarks, comments and hyperlinks from popular desktop formats like Microsoft� Office and Adobe� PDF documents. Additionally, users can add personal bookmarks, notes and highlight text.
� New text capabilities. Unicode support allows for text searching, making it effortless to find information. Copying text to the clipboard is also supported.
� Higher quality graphics. New capabilities allow images to retain their full 24-bit quality, providing more clarity and greater detail.
� New printing capabilities. The Smartphone version now supports full color, infrared printing of documents to compatible HP printers. This feature is already available in the Pocket PC version.
� Flexible file synchronization. New features allow for direct saving of documents to memory cards or other folders on the device.
� Enhanced Internet Explorer Integration. New conversion preview and automatic scaling features allow translation of Web pages with ease and accuracy.
� All new Windows Viewer. The new Windows Viewer enables convenient reference and annotation on the desktop while remaining completely portable to any supported mobile device.
Note that some of these new features, like bookmarks, will not work on Repligo files created with 1.x. You'll need to regenerate the file. It would be nice if there was a desktop converter that could do that for all of your Repligo 1.0 documents instead of having to go back and dig up old documents and/or web sites.
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03-24-2004, 08:08 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 116
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I really like the idea of having bookmarks, but I'm not sure I want to spend $14.95 for an upgrade. Guess I'll wait to see what the consensus on the new version is before I shell out more money...
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03-24-2004, 08:17 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 284
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The new version of Repligo is very solid move in the right direction for an upgrade. Looks like the changes ones makes to a document like highlighting are stored within the file itself. When closing the document, you are asked if you want to save the changes. If you open the document on the desktop, the changes made on the PPC are there (and vice versa). The new features don't work with the older format Repligo docs. This means I will have to dig up the original files and reconvert them to the new format. I do wish there was a way we could control the degree of compression ala Acrobat. I would like to reduce the level of text compression especially when converting an Acrobat file to Repligo format (as the text in most Acrobat docs is already compressed and adding more compression can make it blurry). If you don't want to spend the ~$15 for the upgrade, just use the 15% off Handango coupon code available on the PPCT Subscribers section...saves you ~ $3. Of course, you have to be a subscriber. A big thumbs up to Cerience for this upgrade.  It will get a heavy duty workout from me as I have lots of papers to read and having them on my PDA with markup features is a plus. It was a wait but well worth it. Now if only they will add the images to the flowed mode or a placeholder that you can tap on that will show the image (tap on the image and you are back where you left). That would rock. Perhaps v2.1 
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03-24-2004, 09:17 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 184
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If it does not work with Word Perfect (yes there are a few of us left who use WP), then I don't see any advantage to it.
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03-24-2004, 09:21 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 284
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It may not integrate into Word Perfect but you certainly should be able to print any WP document via the Repligo printer to create a Repligo document. :idea:
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03-24-2004, 09:37 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 352
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Give it a try. Repligo would work with WordPerfect. Any app that has the print function should work with Repligo, that is the beauty of it.
It is one of my must-have app. Highly functional.
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03-24-2004, 09:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 129
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Wow, this is definitively a substantial improvement over the previous version. I am very impressed by how many wishes from user community were actually implemented into this new release. Definitvely well worth the upgrade price.
Still, I would love to see the following suggestions implemented in the next release:
1. Pictures in Flowed View (or placeholders, as per CESkins' suggestion).
2. Ability to specify defeault Zoom in non-flowed view.
3. Ability for non-flowed view to remember last zoom level used. Say, I am looking at non-flowed view with 75% zoom, then I switch to Flowed View, then I switch back to non-flowed view - right now RepliGo 2.0 will go to Whole Page view, but I would like it to return to 75% zoom view.
4. Right now Pocket PC has to be connected to desktop/notebook if I want to print a document with "Bypass ActiveSync" option enabled. Could you please make RepliGo print document (to a temporary folder on my desktop) with "Bypass ActiveSync" enabled and send it to Pocket PC (e.g. to specified Storage Card location) when I connect it to my desktop later? Being forced to connect my PPC every time I want to print a document is very frustrating.
Other than that it is one of the best applications I have ever used on my handhelds.
Cheers,
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03-24-2004, 10:08 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 284
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GadgetMan are you sure about #3. If I have a document opened and switch to 75% zoom then switch to flowed text, I can easily go back to the document in 75% zoomed mode...in fact the %zoom is clearly displayed in the main menu bar and does not change until you change it. You have to tap on that number to reactivate the page at x% view. If you tap on the page view icon (icon after right arrow), the page will always be @ 100% (full page view)...I suspect that's what you may be doing. :idea:
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03-24-2004, 10:22 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 104
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A beautiful thing indeed....but for those Toshibs e80x users running MyVGA or ResFix and the UnDead hack, you will have to uninstall and reinstall UnDead after installing Repligo 2.0....at least that was my experience.
However, after doing so, everything worked perfectly. Hats off to Cerience for making a great alternative to Adobe Acrobat.
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03-24-2004, 10:25 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 291
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Been using this since v1 great software, upgraded straight away
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