I was going to toss this on page 22 of working apps, but thought someone who wanted to improve their reading experience may want a separate thread. I apologize if it is not the right place. So, those of you who rooted their nookcolor, what is your best ebook reader (you do still read on it, right)?
I have 3.
Moon+Reader
BN (the one it ships with)
I still like this a lot, but it needs to support customized font color and brightness
Kindle
Some of amazon's books are still cheaper. Now we have the best of both worlds.
I love Moon+For the books it opens (does not handle all drm well)
Moon+Reader works well. The free version works wonderfully. I am having issues with paid apps right now, but as soon as that's resolved, I will posted about the paid version.
-Excellent fonts (can use any font, color and background combination actually)
-Can read many formats including epub
-Custom brightness down to 0
-Wonderful page turn effect
-It can even read some b&n purchased books, but not all.
The purchased version supports multitouch.
Have fun,
Leko
Moon+Reader in Market? can't find
please post. thx.
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Look for "Moon+" and you should find it.
Aldiko works well too.
There's a free version and a paid version - Aldiko Premium (well worth the $)
I'm using that for my epubs instead of the B&N reader.
Here is a link if you do not have the market up and running.
HTML:
moonreader.zip
Aldiko is good too.
~Leko
P.S. Sorry for the HTML box. I am posting this from dolphin on my Nook.
Aldiko Premium for me.
Sent from my nookColor
Nobody uses FBReader?
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Nobody uses FBReader?
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Ya know, I get tired of answering the same thread multiple times, so I missed this one I guess...
I exclusively use FBReader. I don't like the stock reader, it's extremely slow on my own epubs, and not enough options, such as grey on black for night reading.
FBReader has all the options I need, and it's fast, flexible. If he'd put a mechanism to sync into it, nothing could touch it IMO. It's not pretty like Aldiko but who cares, I don't stare at book covers, I read.
New update on aldiko seems to make it better with more functionality. It now can read any ePub and PDF off the sd card. This includes drm.
Not sure what extra features the premium gives? Anyone know
I like the Kindle apps ability to change the background color to sepia and adjust the font size. the stock B&N reader really needs that feature. What I'd really like to see is an app come along that would actually use a scan (or alternate between 2 or 3) real scans of book paper as a background and overlay the text over that. I think that would be cool. even a light 4 level gray fractal noise pattern would be interesting, and i think maybe easier to read.
Or maybe I'm just nuts...
- Will.
So, I just checked out Aldiko again (used it on my Eris and was not impressed; that was an old version though). It is really nice. I got it to own BN drm content. You need to use your name and cc# (the whole number) as the login and password respectively.
Then, you are in.
I think the paid and free are the same but you support the Dev with the paid.
Moon+ has better note taking features (full annotation and export)
But for nook books, Aldiko is amazing.
It's dictionary feature is nice too.
~Leko
Aldiko is it for me!
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WillCameron said:
I like the Kindle apps ability to change the background color to sepia and adjust the font size. the stock B&N reader really needs that feature. What I'd really like to see is an app come along that would actually use a scan (or alternate between 2 or 3) real scans of book paper as a background and overlay the text over that. I think that would be cool. even a light 4 level gray fractal noise pattern would be interesting, and i think maybe easier to read.
Or maybe I'm just nuts...
- Will.
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Didn't RTFM did you? The stock reader has different colors, fonts, spacing, etc. Tap the middle of the screen.
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Didn't RTFM did you? The stock reader has different colors, fonts, spacing, etc. Tap the middle of the screen.
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Fonts and spacing yes. Colors, IMHO, no. The buttons are there, but they are all a version of black and white. Kindle's sepia is truly sepia. It is kind of like annotationsBN says they're there, and they are. Until you want to get them off. BN's reader is good, but all the above suit my needs better at the moment.
~Leko
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Fonts and spacing yes. Colors, IMHO, no. The buttons are there, but they are all a version of black and white. Kindle's sepia is truly sepia. It is kind of like annotationsBN says they're there, and they are. Until you want to get them off. BN's reader is good, but all the above suit my needs better at the moment.
~Leko
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I was responding to the guy saying the B&N reader had no options Has FEW options, but does have some.
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So, I just checked out Aldiko again (used it on my Eris and was not impressed; that was an old version though). It is really nice. I got it to own BN drm content. You need to use your name and cc# (the whole number) as the login and password respectively.
Then, you are in.
I think the paid and free are the same but you support the Dev with the paid.
Moon+ has better note taking features (full annotation and export)
But for nook books, Aldiko is amazing.
It's dictionary feature is nice too.
~Leko
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Where did you enter the info for BN - I see no screen for this - only for Adobe DRM. The dev for Aldiko also states that it will NOT read BN DRM'd books?
Sorry the sentence was a bit run on perhaps, but I meant specifically the background-to-sepia that the Kindle has. I'd actually like more color selections, but thats just me. probably.
- Will.
In order to open BN docs,
-Download a book.
-open aldiko.
-go to the home button top left on the screen.
-click on sdcard and navigate to the book.
-open the book.
-it will ask for login and password.
-your login is the name on the card.
-your password is the full credit card # on your account.
Click go or whatever (I forgot the button), and the book will open. You should only have to do this once.
Have fun.
~Leko
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I was responding to the guy saying the B&N reader had no options Has FEW options, but does have some.
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Khaytsus,
I see. Sorry about that. I wish it had more. If it did, I probably would not have rooted. For me, this is first and foremost a reading device. Though, I love all the other things I have going too. If they added better options today, I am not sure I would go back.
The version of aldiko I downloaded from the market did not have highlighting. Is that correct? Also, the text selection using long press and slide was very choppy and imprecise. Selecting text is much smoother on moon+ plus highlighting is a breeze.
Related
Anyone else have this problem?
Aldiko likes to be a fullscreen reader but because of soft buttons taskbar in HC it is always present and so some text on each screen is cutoff
The only solution I can think of is to increase the margins. Sorry.
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The only solution I can think of is to increase the margins. Sorry.
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Funny I tried that at first and it didn't work then I did it to much larger degree and it seems to have helped. Not ideal but a pretty reasonable fix for now.
Thanks
Canadoc,
You are welcome. If you want to try Moon+ reader, they allow you to adjust the bottom padding separately. However, they do not let you read protected BN ebooks, so I use Aldiko almost exclusively save for magazines for which, I use the native reader. Send Aldiko a help ticket about the padding. They are quite responsive.
~Leko
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Canadoc,
You are welcome. If you want to try Moon+ reader, they allow you to adjust the bottom padding separately. However, they do not let you read protected BN ebooks, so I use Aldiko almost exclusively save for magazines for which, I use the native reader. Send Aldiko a help ticket about the padding. They are quite responsive.
~Leko
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I love Aldiko. It has a great UI ....like how i can read protected adobe content.....
Im sure they will put out a hc version in time.
I have been looking for a PDF reader that can either invert colors of the pdf file or explicitly set background black and text white.
So far only app I have found that promises to do this is Repligo reader. Ezpdf mentions night mode but from the description it sounds like it works only in text-only mode.
Can someone either recommend these or suggest alternative? Both are cash up front so can't check if they really work like I want..!
Ezpdf's only works in text reflow mode (not that good imo unless you have very well formatted text).
Repligo's works in the normal viewing mode.
Neither works for colours and will only invert text/background colour.
If I had to choose between the 2 for night viewing mode, repligo would be the way to go. Although ezpdf is far the superior pdf viewer overall.
I would personally go ezpdf and then just turn your brightness down if its a bit too much. Won't make that much difference in battery life.
Hope that helps
It's not about battery life as such, I just prefer to read text on black background with an illuminated source like NC display. With reflective e-ink, black-on-white is better.
Easier on the eyes..
If you get Chainfire working, even on rooted stock, you can get a red night mode.
PDF is not something that can be easily manipulated. Changing colors and all is next to impossible even on a computer.
~Leko
Edit: Sorry, I hadn't suggested an alternative, only an app the OP has already tried.
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If you get Chainfire working, even on rooted stock, you can get a red night mode.
PDF is not something that can be easily manipulated. Changing colors and all is next to impossible even on a computer.
~Leko
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Not really. Both acrobat and foxit can invert the colors. Most problematic would be the background image. These are commonly found in pdf manuals you get from Steam and other do stores.
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Edit: Sorry, I hadn't suggested an alternative, only an app the OP has already tried.
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If you can share experience with Repligo, that'd be good as well! I have documents to go so I have a decent pdf viewer otherwise..
Sure thing. I use Repligo almost exclusively for pdf viewing. I learned about Repligo while searching for a viewer that allowed highlighting and commenting. I find that it works especially well with the academic conference/journal papers that I read. I especially like that I can highlight text in a variety colors and that its zoom feature is very intuitive.
I also keep my documents synced in a dropbox folder and the changes made in Repligo can be easily edited on my pc in adobe when needed.
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foxit with night mode
foxit with night mode
tools > preferences > documents > document coloring options
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1830058&stc=1&d=1364137130
I like aldiko, as it reads the PDF like a ebook, so all the colors are changeable
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Hey all, i have been using Perfect Viewer for my mangas but i was wondering if if we have any sort of clone of Komik for HC available for our CM7?
I have tried also JJcomics and ACV...
Thanks
The best one is Manga watcher application. I LOVE IT for my Naruto
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The best one is Manga watcher application. I LOVE IT for my Naruto
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i'm looking for somehting for reading off-line, my manga files ... and not online
But thanks for the suggestion!
MangaWhat free has always been my fav, offline save to sd, its changed a lot in the last 6 months or so and i like it even more now.
Mango is the best, at least, from my point of view.
http://mango.leetsoft.net/install-android.php
Definitely Mango.
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I will try !
I'm hooked on a manga called Gantz. It's a really original story I think.
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Definitely Mango.
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I have mango and mangawhat always seem smoother and less buggy. Mango definitely beats mangawhat with its flashy interface but I think mangawhat has better functionality.
I like the comic reader mobi 2.2 for comic on cbr and mangawatcher for the manga
PPViewer is the one I use with CBR/CBZ files and it covers my needs. Could use a few navigation tweaks but it's good other than a few minor nitpicks.
I'm comfortable reading with zooming/moving for most comics though so that could be something. Also, Mango's not on the market anymore it seems.
Just installed Droid Comic Viewer and it seems to work well
It really depends on what you want for it. If you're downloading and putting the manga onto your tablet on your own, ACV is easily the best you'll find. Also the least buggy. Otherwise, Manga Watcher and Mango will definitely be the only workable alternatives that I've found that don't bug out at some point.
I tried ACV, it has problems opening big .CBR/.CBZ files.
Perfect Viewer is still the best for 2.2+
Komik Reader would be ideal, but it's 3.0+ Only.
I haven't really tried anything else, but Perfect Viewer is great once you learn the shortcuts and dig into the settings a bit. You can zoom, fit horizontally, fit vertically and do next/previous issue without ever bringing up any kind of menu or UI.
There's a new player in town.
https://market.android.com/search?q=Comic+rack&so=1&c=apps
I've been using Comic Rack for Windows for a while now to organize my comics, I love it. I just DL'ed the app so I'm not too sure on how it performs.
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/
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I haven't really tried anything else, but Perfect Viewer is great once you learn the shortcuts and dig into the settings a bit. You can zoom, fit horizontally, fit vertically and do next/previous issue without ever bringing up any kind of menu or UI.
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What i'm looking for, and believe other too, is one that could fit the entire manga on our screen, avoiding zoom in/ou all the time... i'm using Canti to trim the jpgs, but it would be nice to have some reader that could do that or some zoom lens as found on MOBI Reader... Mobi reader shows a good future, but the UI is buggy and it stays abover your page.. really weird
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What i'm looking for, and believe other too, is one that could fit the entire manga on our screen, avoiding zoom in/ou all the time... i'm using Canti to trim the jpgs, but it would be nice to have some reader that could do that or some zoom lens as found on MOBI Reader... Mobi reader shows a good future, but the UI is buggy and it stays abover your page.. really weird
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Unless I really want to look at some detail, I don't do any zooming in PV. "Fit vertical" in portrait mode has the same effect as trimming the side margins for most titles (though the only manga I've been reading on my NC is Naussicaa--otherwise, Western comics), giving you the full page and a usually readable size. If not, "fit horizontal" will display the full page in portrait mode, and turning the NC on its side will automatically expand the panels to pretty much actual size. I generally use a combination of these methods without really thinking about it, which is easy and fluid because of the way FH/FV are mapped to the upper right and upper left areas of the screen, respectively.
Because of the way the ratio of our screens relates to the ratios of various comics, some combination of H/V fit and P/L orientation will get you pretty much what you're asking for any given page, but no one of those combinations is going to work for every page of practically any title. It makes more sense in this case to program the user to decide which is best.
Im currently reading manga using 8Manga App recommended. You guys can download from below
8Manga app v2.8 android (150729) Final
download link: http://www.8manga.com/app/manga.apk
8Manga app v1.3 ios download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/8man...l=zh&ls=1&mt=8
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Im currently reading manga using 8Manga App recommended. You guys can download from below
8Manga app v2.8 android (150729) Final
download link: http://www.8manga.com/app/manga.apk
8Manga app v1.3 ios download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/8man...l=zh&ls=1&mt=8
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Awesome.. 8manga is a nice manga reader app!
Wondering how I could add notes to the side of a PDF. As in the area on the PDF itself is cluttered and full so adding notes directly on it isn't possible (attached a screenshot to show what I mean). Would love to be able to add an area to the side of each page to add notes (so push the actual page over to the left and have the right area for notes)
So any app capable of this? or anyway to add some extra blank area to the right of all my PDF pages which would allow me to put freewriting and text boxs on it?
Try sign my pad from the Market. I believe it has what you're looking for.
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Try sign my pad from the Market. I believe it has what you're looking for.
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hmmmm, not sure if it fits the bill. Looking at it in market seems to only be for signing pdfs and not so much note taking/annotating.
I have the program, it does allow you to add text/notes to the PDF.
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I have the program, it does allow you to add text/notes to the PDF.
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Interesting. Do you have ezpdf? are the annotating options similar to what you could find there?
No I dont have ezpdf so I cant compare the two, sorry.
No prob, thanks for the suggestion.
Just downloaded it for a test run and doesnt seem like its a viable option. Even importing and organizing my pdfs would be a huge pain and it keeps a portrait sized view even in landscape mode, along with other things.
Sorry it didn't work out for you.
hah i'm a med student too... i know exactly waht you're looking for. re-print the pdf's in adobe from your computer.
on adobe acrobat x for pc:
open up pdf in adobe (or any other pdf viewer i guess)
print to adobe pdf
under page handling, page scaling: multiple pages per sheet
select 1 by 1 or 1 by 2, etc whatever you want for margins. this should give you a margin on each side of each slide. play around with these features to get what you want, if possible.
there should also be an option to print the notes lines to the right of the slide when you print. either that or it's a powerpoint feature.
as for actual note-taking on the TFP, try ez pdf or repligo reader. the sticky notes work if all else fails, but text boxes should work on the sides there.
if only the pdf apps had callout boxes... :\
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hah i'm a med student too... i know exactly waht you're looking for. re-print the pdf's in adobe from your computer.
on adobe acrobat x for pc:
open up pdf in adobe (or any other pdf viewer i guess)
print to adobe pdf
under page handling, page scaling: multiple pages per sheet
select 1 by 1 or 1 by 2, etc whatever you want for margins. this should give you a margin on each side of each slide. play around with these features to get what you want, if possible.
there should also be an option to print the notes lines to the right of the slide when you print. either that or it's a powerpoint feature.
as for actual note-taking on the TFP, try ez pdf or repligo reader. the sticky notes work if all else fails, but text boxes should work on the sides there.
if only the pdf apps had callout boxes... :\
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Awesome thanks! this looks very promising.
I am using expdf for notes (or at least plan to at this point) but I have found my text boxes and free hand annotations won't show outside the pdf's "image". If in your way I can basically extend the right side of the image as a blank area that would be amazing! The stickies look like they will work but it would definitely be nice to be able to read the notes while still able to see the slide.
Going to give this a shot and report back soon.
edit. looks like I need to get adobe acrobat x since I only have adobe reader. Will give this a shot tomorrow. I am assuming standard is fine for this task?
I use stickies with repligo reader. I find it to be much faster, ezpdf lags on page turns while repligo is super smooth.
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So playing around with it I think I found an even better way to do it.
Instead of doing the multiple page option what I did was put page scaling to None
Then unchecked auto-rotate and center
then went into page setup and changed the paper from letter to legal.
This puts the image competely on the left hand side with a large margin on the right hand side for notes (although I could see sometimes wanting margins on both sides for maybe taking notes and putting arrows to things in the slide, but just check auto-rotate and center and then you will have 2 smaller margins on each side, with little space on top)
So this way is pretty sweet because it gives you the large margin on the right side for notes, plus the aspect ratio is basically the same as the primes screen!
But there is a bit of an oddity with this process right now. When I saved it, it saved and all my slides were upside down. They were in the right order but all were upside down for some reason. Figure this should be able to be fixed somehow (tried rotating the page in adobe acrobat and then "printing" but that didn't work, guessing there's something I need to change in the printer settings). And even if not you can rotate 180 degrees in ezpdf easily enough (which puts the margin on the left side, not a big deal).
Thanks again for the heads up, this is really going to help taking notes on this thing!
edit. if there is some way to ungray that margins box in my first attached pic, then could maybe even modify it some more.
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I use stickies with repligo reader. I find it to be much faster, ezpdf lags on page turns while repligo is super smooth.
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I would prefer to not use stickies if at all possible just because it would be nice to see my notes right beside the slides as opposed to only being able to see one or the other, just like if I was doing it by hand.
I checked out repligo and while it does seem faster then expdf and it doesn't seem to have a good way to organize a bunch of different classes lecture notes within it. Also the toolbar to select either a free note or text box etc keeps hiding itself and I don't see a setting ot keep it up (and even then have to go through a pull down menu to select one).
Mantano reader
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Wondering how I could add notes to the side of a PDF. As in the area on the PDF itself is cluttered and full so adding notes directly on it isn't possible (attached a screenshot to show what I mean). Would love to be able to add an area to the side of each page to add notes (so push the actual page over to the left and have the right area for notes)
So any app capable of this? or anyway to add some extra blank area to the right of all my PDF pages which would allow me to put freewriting and text boxs on it?
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I would recommend mantano reader free, it allows heaps of options, i specifically use the highlight option, which you can then add a sticky to... Give it a go and see if you can use it
Oo, thought i couldnt add pics, anyway... here you are
This reader is really not laggy at ALL! which is great for my large texts...
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I would recommend mantano reader free, it allows heaps of options, i specifically use the highlight option, which you can then add a sticky to... Give it a go and see if you can use it
Oo, thought i couldnt add pics, anyway... here you are
This reader is really not laggy at ALL! which is great for my large texts...
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Thanks I will check it out. Ezpdf really isn't that bad for lagging (although haven't opened up any super big pdf's on it yet), and it is really nice and easy for highlighting, sticky notes, text boxes, free hand and everything like that which is awesome. But ill check out mantano and see how that one stacks up!
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edit. if there is some way to ungray that margins box in my first attached pic, then could maybe even modify it some more.
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try manually increasing margins?
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Its grayed out and not letting me manually change them. Not sure how to ungray them so I can do that, or if there's any other place to do it.
Would be nice to use that, but really just changing the page size to legal and pushing the image over to the side looks like it will be just fine for me. Gives a good sized blank space to the right for any notes
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Its grayed out and not letting me manually change them. Not sure how to ungray them so I can do that, or if there's any other place to do it.
Would be nice to use that, but really just changing the page size to legal and pushing the image over to the side looks like it will be just fine for me. Gives a good sized blank space to the right for any notes
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oh, now i see what you mean. it's probably because of the paper layout you chose. try making a custom one...
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oh, now i see what you mean. it's probably because of the paper layout you chose. try making a custom one...
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The only custom size option is somehting like "post script custom size" option and it somehow doesn't allow me to choose any sizes or margins which is weird.
Just figured this out. Download foxit reader and under print, select Custom Scale and print to like 75%. #Win.
The toolbar got a refreshed look, and text rendering seems faster when zooming in/out.
Also got the OLD s-note pen/colour palette as an annotation tool now,
but it craps out half the time, and its processing time is slowwwwww.....
But it shows that the devs are "noticing" the samsung note line up, so maybe we'll get better optimization for this tab soon !
I dunno forum rules about "advertising",
but its on sale for $0.99 right now, which i think is a great pick up ~
Yeah, i just bought it, been looking for a replacement for adobe reader for a while now. This might be the one..
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I've used EZpdf for quite some time now. I use it extensively When reading pdfs, annotating and studying. Really like the "new" interface. I've moved onto to using more and more Epubs but when I need to read pdfs this is the one I rely on.
Just a hint for ezPDF
Maybe you know this already, but:
ezPDF has three drawing modes: Freehand, Drawing, and Drawing (SPen).
Of these, I find that freehand works best. But, it is not so easy to set pen width.
The method I use is this: first draw something. (click on icon in toolbar, draw, click on left arrow to confirm the annotation).
Then select it, click properties, and set the thickness (I use 1.0). This will also set the thickness for future annotations.
(You can also edit the toolbar by clicking on the 'x', and choosing edit.)