[Q] Full page PDF reading possible? - Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

How easy is it to read PDFs on the tablet where you're viewing it a full page at a time? (PDFs that are designed to be printed on A4 sized paper or technical book sized paper).
I've got a ton of ebooks, manuals and other such documents in PDF format. I would love to use the Tablet as a PDF reader but only if it can be comfortably read while viewing a whole page at a time. I don't want to be doing any zooming/panning around the page.
Just to clarify, this is when holding tablet in portrait mode. Also, assume the PDF pages are like that of a typical technical book.

Depends on the PDF no? One with large margins and tiny text won't be as legible as one with bigger text. But I find most PDFs look good in portrait mode.

I bought the GT 10.1 primarily for reading tech docs. It works very well for this purpose, but a few things to note:
An letter sized page is a bit small. But after zooming (Acrobat PDF, or QuickOffice) in to eliminate the margins, it is still smaller than normal, but only slightly.
An app that automatically cropped margins and allowed inverted image would be perfect. I have not found one yet.
Landscape mode is effectively same size (width) as letter. So 100% reproduction, but you do have to scroll.

mantano reader can crop. aldiko is cheap against that reader.

Yes, comfortably without zoom+pan
I use repligo reader for its excellent graphical page rendering, giving the clear text effect to scanned pages, even at full screen width view! Use expdf primarily for annotation but repligo for pure reading pleasure, even turning pages is faster in repligo, hence highly recommended.

repligo ist the fastest one but it lacks in formatting options.

I am happy with repligo's page rendering, it makes my over zoomed scanned pdf books more readable

Big fan of ezPDF, well worth the two bucks
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

the adobe reader android app has the "rescroll text" option which is very good at utilizing the whole screen and sizing the font and line changes accordingly.

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I wonder if it will reflow in Adobe Reader. I'm reading English and Chinese pdf.
Is the reflow sluggish when scrolling ?
What is the maximum pdf size that this phone can comfortably handle ?
Thanks a lot and look forward to hearing from you.

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Our nexus has a very annoying aspect ratio, most of the YouTube videos won't just fit for full screen.
Is there any way we could make these videos fit on full screen!?
Change YouTube app's aspect ratio, or any other app which can play online YouTube videos, where we can make it fit on full screen I.e. with 4:3 aspect ratio???
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I'm sure there are ways to do this, but it would result in cropping out and stretching parts of the video. It would be very unpleasant to watch.
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Install SecondScreen
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farmerbb.secondscreen.free
This app let's you adjust your screen resolution so fullscreen videos fill the entire screen. (Requires Root)
enriquejones666 said:
Install SecondScreen
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farmerbb.secondscreen.free
This app let's you adjust your screen resolution so fullscreen videos fill the entire screen. (Requires Root)
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what settings you use to make youtube show full screen ideso
lilliput222 said:
what settings you use to make youtube show full screen ideso
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You're right. Second Screen only works when you project your screen onto a TV (miracast). I ended up using Dolphin Browser and MXPlayer. When you watch a video in Dolphin and click the Fullscreen box on the video, the fullscreen window has a 3dot menu in the upper right. When you click that, you get the choice to select a different video player. Select MXPlayer (installed separately) and the video will play in MXPlayer, which has controls for scaling the video. Set it to Fit Vertically, and it will fill the screen. Not an ideal solution, but it works.
When widescreen tvs were new (I'm that old) it irritated me to see people, mainly older people, watching 4:3 ratio programmes 'stretched' to fit. Watch stuff as it is intended to be seen!
If you have a nexus 7 it's a perfect size for widescreen. Okay, so older 4:3 ratio stuff will be a bit small. But think of the poor iPad users who paid four times the price for a larger 4:3 ratio screen just so they can watch widescreen material letterboxed at the same size as a nexus 7.
And dont get me started on people who video on their phones vertically...

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