Playing with my new Hero and realised I could quite happily read the odd book I have in PDF.
The problem I have found is the text is too wide for the screen, anyone know a way or changing the width of the column of text in my PDF.
I have full rights on the PDF and a acrobat profesional license through work.
Any ideas welcome,
Cheers
There is an option in the menu called "reflow" or something similar. Change it to that and it will automatically reformat the pdf to fit your screen better.
Yup, in the native PDF reader app on hero, choose view and reflow.
Most PDF readers have some option to do this - in Repligo Reader, it actually calls it Book view or reader view I think.
On Docs to Go its view/Word wrap.
Dayzee
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Hi,
Just wondering if there is a ebook reader on the Android Marketplace? Currently I use Mobipocket and Ereader.com but there software doesn't seem to support Android, is there another program I can use to read books from these sites??
Aldiko has a great UI, handles formatting really good and the company just released a free version. FBReader is also good.
Thanks for that droid will have a look at them when my phone turns up tomorrow. I know tha mobipocket has protection on their books so I expect to not be able to read them but is there a way to conver these books so that Aldiko or FBReader can display them?
Aldiko uses .epub as its format, and you can convert to this using a prog called Calibre.
There's also Repligo Reader which I think uses .pdf
If you can convert to .pdf, there are a few readers and most have a view allowing WordWrapping or automatic alteration of lines length to fit the screen. Think I like Aldiko best as it has left to right swiping for reading instead of scrolling upwards, and also has a black on white and white on black mode changer. Well worth the money and the converter, plus lots of free .epub books available.
Dayzee xxx
+1 for Aldiko - lets you choose fonts, colours - and has a lookup facility (though not a dictionary -0.001).
Checkout Calibre for conversion to epub, as Dayzee says.
Also checkout "ProcessTextGroup" for "Amber LIT Converter" - will convert MS .Lit files to .html (but use care, as i recall - a confusing download).
i.e. Amber will convert .lit to .html
then Calibre will convert .html to .epub
- Amber will not read DRM protected files.
Best of all is WordPlayer v3. Its free and it can use TTS (text to speech) engine. I can put on my earphones and listen to my ebooks even during a car drive. I use TTS on my laptop since ages and thats much superior way of enjoing ebooks than using your eyes. But most amazing is that there is free polish (and other exotic languages) tts engine for android! WP3 uses epub format so use callibre with it...
Thanks guys will check all those out when my Hero arrives I also sent an email to Ereader.com and got a reply saying they are working on an Android version of there software so can't wait for that, unfortunetly they didn't give any release times/dates
What is the default pdf reader in the nook?
What other pdf readers has others installed?
I heard the adobe pdf reader for android was actually a very nice app. The color nook is my first dive into the android tablet scene, so I wasn't sure how to check and see what app the nook was already using before I began my search for the perfect android pdf reader.
Thanks
BTW, Great job to all the developers who have opened up the nook color for the rest of us!
i've been using RepliGo, which i like.. but i am going to switch over to Aldiko when 2.0 comes out with PDF support.
I've tried the default one, the official adobe app, and Repligo.. none of them work very well on my nc. All seem very sluggish and navigate poorly. I've taken to converting pdfs to epubs and using fbreader instead.
posted from my nook color using the official xda app
EzPDFReader is very good. I use Aldiko for epub files.
Cheers,
Rich
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To answer the original question, the default reader is a stripped-down version of QuickPDF. I've installed Documents to Go and use that reader.
Is Adobe Reader too obvious to mention here? I think it is the fastest and smoothest PDF reader out there, I find it excellent on the Nook, much better than any other option I've tried.
In landscape mode, if you set it to view full-screen, you can easily drag scroll up and down on the page, and then just tap left or right to turn pages -- fast, simple, literally works perfect for reading. The only drawback is to change reading modes you need SoftKeys or something to press the MENU button since the taskbar is hidden.
But... adobe doesn't save progress and there is no bookmark option
downloaded and installed the adobe reader from the app store today (first install - Yay!).
and found the application so much snappier than the built in NC pdf reader.
I will look into the other suggestions, but given simple birthing pains so far (just have to get use to the interface), I am very impressed so far.
ezpdfreader is the best I've tried. The "Reader" app that's built into the NC works very well (has bookmarking, reflow, etc...) but doesn't do landscape mode, and you can only get to it by using a file manager (otherwise, the file opens in QuickOffice lite).
The only thing I don't like about ezpdf is that it won't do continuous paging. I want to be able to drag my way through the book.
I'm using ezpdf now. When I open a PDF it shows the page flow at the bottom which I can flick to fly through pages.
I like this one better than repligo now, btw
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jewnersey said:
But... adobe doesn't save progress and there is no bookmark option
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What can I use that does save my place? Or do I just need to convert my pdf's?
Ezpdf and repligo save progress, or at least that's been my experience
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Wow what can i say now: i have installed both adobe and ezpdf on the bc now. Loving them both. Just have to get use to them.. so much better than the stock bn pdf reader. Thanks everyone for the suggestions, and the one for tapatalk to access the forums here. It truly makes the bc what i got it for: to read my tech books and manuals a pleasurable experience.
I really feel this was money well spent.
PDF (magazine) covers do not show up on the NookColor. And I hate swiping up and down to change pages with PDFs....
I tried covnerting it to epub with Calibre, but then I can't zoom in and READ the articles... The covers showed up and I could change the pages with a side click...
Anyone else find the BEST way to deal with magazine PDFs (converting them)?
It should be noted, that each page appears to be an IMAGE - it does not appear to be a mix of text and graphics.
I use ezPDF Reader for scanned magazines and pretty much all other PDF's. Like you mentioned the pages are basically images so there really isn't an easy way to seperate the pictures and text. It's not going to be anything like the magazines that you subscribe to through B&N but ezPDF Reader does a much better job than the built-in reader.
Heya guys,
So I just recently discovered the real beauty of E-books and the awesome capability of the Xoom in this activity. My question is what are the settings everyone's using to convert their PDF's into E-book format in Calibre? I'm pretty lost in a lot of the settings and all of my PDF's loose their colorful pictures and such when I convert them.. I'm also playing with Aldiko, Kindle, and Nook for viewing my books.. Whats everyone else's preference?
I just have mine set to generic e-ink and then I just convert any pdf to epub and it works great. I have not made any changes to any of the settings. If you have played around with your settings then just revert them back to default and try it again.
The problem I am having is that I have a few magazines that were scanned into PDFs. If I use QuickOffice to view the pdf the font is small, but very crisp and clear. The only issue I have with this option is that I can not save where I left off reading and the page turning is not as smooth. I do not care about the fancy page transitions, although Google Books does look nice. I would like just a simple button to advance pages. With QuickOffice you have to drag the page and it does not snap to the next page.
I tried using Calibre and then reading in Aldiko or using Adobe Reader and the fonts do not render nearly as crisp as using QuickOffice. Does anyone have some suggestions?
These magazines have plenty of color pictures so I do not want to loose those either.
Thanks!
Same boat here. A solution would be helpful!
pratik5705 said:
Same boat here. A solution would be helpful!
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For large PDF files (like magazines for example) I have found that converting them to epub format is a waste because it lags when you open it using any of the book readers. You can use Adobe/Quickoffice/Documents to Go but like you mentioned, the only downside is that you cannot create a bookmark so you always have to find your way back to where you left off. If you do convert the files how ever to epub and they are not too big then I found that the problem is that most scanned magazines just do not appear right since you may have 2 magazine pages scanned to one pdf page, images distort how the text looks or where it is located, etc. Another solution is use a comic viewer to read the magazines but this takes too long to create sometimes but it is much better than using a book reader since coming viewers handle large file sizes very well.
My problem is that the PDF's I convert to Ebooks lose all their formating. There is not seperation between lines anymore, the text is all one size, page breaks get deleted, so on and so forth.. They look terrible.. I wonder what type of PDFs everyone else is converting with so much success..
Guys I need a good PDF reader. I use it to read Programming / coding related books most of the time. The conversion of such books to ePub isn't that good. So any good pdf reader out there ?
My problem is, font size will be too low when opened in PDF. Then I have to zoom in & zoom out, to turn to next page. Imagine this for books having 1000 pages :O
So suggest me a good PDF reader.
TIA
Adobe reader and ez pdf reader both have text reflow. That sounds like just what you need.
I have been using Moon Reader Pro for both PDFs and Ebooks... loving it thus far. Been using it for a few weeks. There is a free version as well, and it supports Calibre servers natively.
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Adobe reader and ez pdf reader both have text reflow. That sounds like just what you need.
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Oh ! How do I activate that ? I already have Adobe Reader installed
Open the pdf. On the latest version, click the view button (3rd from right on top bar) and select reflow text. It only works if it's a text-based pdf, scanned ones won't work.
^thank u ! It somewhat solves my problem. Are there any better solution for it ?
Give Mantano Reader a try.