I've got a strange problem all of a sudden:
When i'm using for example ClearVue Pdf to read a document and scroll a little downwards the screen resets itself to the original position. This way i can't read the document This happens also in an excel document when i try to input something in a cell the screen resets itself and the text i was writing is wiped away. If i do it really fast, between screen resets in, i can manage to input data but this is no way of working!
Anyone experienced the same thing and found a solution?
Cheers
macrobody said:
I've got a strange problem all of a sudden:
When i'm using for example ClearVue Pdf to read a document and scroll a little downwards the screen resets itself to the original position. This way i can't read the document This happens also in an excel document when i try to input something in a cell the screen resets itself and the text i was writing is wiped away. If i do it really fast, between screen resets in, i can manage to input data but this is no way of working!
Anyone experienced the same thing and found a solution?
Cheers
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I have had problems with clearvue pdf too (especially with big files, but also small files like transaction slips from my internet bank just turned up as empty in clearvue).
I don't have a solution, but a suggestion
Try Adobe Reader for PPC. It does a much better job at displaying pdf files on my K-jam than clearvue pdf does.
B
Ok, thanks. I will try that.
Leaves me with the excel problem...
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I'm frustrated by the way pdf's are forced to completely redraw (or maybe reload) themselves when you scroll around within a page. It makes them a time consuming hassle. Is there any way to make it scroll smoothly? I'm using the clearvue pdf viewer that was loaded with the Cingular 812555.
u have mobipocket and others, but most of them arnt free...
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eNews/default.asp
and im not sure if it solves ur problem, i just suggest alternatives to try...
Thanks trashman for the suggestion. I'm not worried about paying for the program if it does the trick (though of course I would rather find it for free). Does anybody out there know if mobipocket will help smooth out scrolling when viewing PDF's?
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Thanks trashman for the suggestion. I'm not worried about paying for the program if it does the trick (though of course I would rather find it for free). Does anybody out there know if mobipocket will help smooth out scrolling when viewing PDF's?
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It won't display PDF's, you'll need to convert them, which may result in problems unless your PDF source is fully text-based.
That is, don't even try to convert a, say, graphics-heavy tech book to the Mobi format.
dunno with heavy graphics but with normal graphics, pictures and so on i have no problem with it...and it scroll fast on text and relatively smooth on graphics...
but mene is correct, u cant read a pdf right away, it need to be "converted"...
Trashman said:
dunno with heavy graphics but with normal graphics, pictures and so on i have no problem with it...and it scroll fast on text and relatively smooth on graphics...
but mene is correct, u cant read a pdf right away, it need to be "converted"...
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Yup, with a normal, say, literature book the Mobi format is much better than PDF.
I for one am a fairly heavy PDF user and have always gone back to the bloated Adobe Reader 2.0. Just found this Foxit Reader for Windows Mobile which is still beta but was quite impressive. No installation, just a small executable that I copied to my Program Files directory and changed the PDF default viewer in the registry. It has a stupid nag screen and an Evaluation banner at the top of the that I'm sure will disappear when it's actually released. Looks like it has promise.....
I tried 'em all on my 8125, and settled on Foxit Reader. It only cost me $9.99 for a licensed version, and it works as well as any. It is very fast, takes up very little room and redraws seamlessly. The only drawback to it is that it has no find function. But tables of contents and links within documents are both fully functional. It's the best pdf viewer I've used in all my years of using PDAs and Handhelds.
This is the URL to the beta download, but if you contact the company they are very good about communicating with you.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/foxitreader/rd_ppc.php
You can contact Sales here: [email protected]
I did have some trouble in getting the licensed version to keep my registration key from one session to the next, and had to get about 4 different "new" versions from them before they finally got me the fully licensed executable, but they didn't give up and their replies were timely.
Overall I'm very happy with it. I even open 6+Mb manuals with it and it is very fast in doing so, and just as fast in navigating within those large documents.
G'luck
Okay. The I downloaded the Fox Reader evaluation. Is there anyway to make it the default reader once you get the licensed version?
By the way - it's much quicker to use than the clearvue reader.
RepliGo PDF Mobilizer looks quite nice as well. The viewer for pocketpc is free, but you'll need to convert your PDFs to a custom format with their software, which is shareware (but nothing a quick search with Google can't fix).
The converted files are about half the size of the original PDF without losing layout/features etc.
addicus said:
Okay. The I downloaded the Fox Reader evaluation. Is there anyway to make it the default reader once you get the licensed version?
By the way - it's much quicker to use than the clearvue reader.
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Use a registry editor, navigatate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Look for pdffile. The Shell\Open\Command. Open the key and copy the text to the clipboard. (Mine says "\\Program Files\FoxitReader for WiM5.0.exe" %1" Close that and go down to Opendoc\Command and replace the text in the entry there.
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Use a registry editor, navigatate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Look for pdffile. The Shell\Open\Command. Open the key and copy the text to the clipboard. (Mine says "\\Program Files\FoxitReader for WiM5.0.exe" %1" Close that and go down to Opendoc\Command and replace the text in the entry there.
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I just found this thread again. I dl'd total commander and this worked perfectly. Thanks Dr.!!!!!
Hi Folks
I've broken something. I know, it had to happen. All this "playing around" with my new toy (No, not like that! )
Going to PocketWord and it'll open something that I don't recall putting in there. This turns out to be a file in the "My Documents" called "CONFIG" that had loads of characters that are not letters, you know, like symbols and the like?
If I goto Menu / File / New it gives the message
"A problem with the document was encountered and it cannot be opened".
I suspect I've deleted something I shouldn't have Help?!
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Hi Folks
I've broken something. I know, it had to happen. All this "playing around" with my new toy (No, not like that! )
Going to PocketWord and it'll open something that I don't recall putting in there. This turns out to be a file in the "My Documents" called "CONFIG" that had loads of characters that are not letters, you know, like symbols and the like?
If I goto Menu / File / New it gives the message
"A problem with the document was encountered and it cannot be opened".
I suspect I've deleted something I shouldn't have Help?!
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Ok... First I don't think the config file in my documents is vital and I would delete it. (if your concerned about it then copy it somewhere-else and then delete.
On a PC Word uses a template for blank documents called normal.dot but on Pocket Word it uses blank.dot This file should be present in the windows folder in main memory.
After deleting the config file, I would try word again.
If it still fails to open a new wod doc, then look to make sure the template file blank.dot is present.
Mike
Hi Mike
I checked and there wasn't a blank.dot file in the windows folder, so I managed to open an word doc I already had, blanked it and saved it as blank.dot where you suggested. I closed word and tried again only to find the same error message.
So does this rule out an error with that side of word, and otherwise what would you suggest?
TIA
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Hi Mike
I checked and there wasn't a blank.dot file in the windows folder, so I managed to open an word doc I already had, blanked it and saved it as blank.dot where you suggested. I closed word and tried again only to find the same error message.
So does this rule out an error with that side of word, and otherwise what would you suggest?
TIA
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This is a little mysterious! Firstly because the original blank .dot is protected and should not be able to be removed normally. I suspect it's become corrupted. Still the replacement should have been ok. However, lets hope all your templates are not corrupted. Open a doc in word and go to menu>tools>options>default template and choose another, say memo. Close out of word and reenter. It should open and when you press new a memo should appear. A bit of a pain but until a better solution comes along you can always delete the memo lines and treat as a blank doc.
Will check around to see if there is another way to replace blank.dot
Mike
Thanks, I've had a look in the options and for "Templates" it is blank. There are NO templates at all on the machine
Elwyn M3100 said:
Thanks, I've had a look in the options and for "Templates" it is blank. There are NO templates at all on the machine
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Good grief what have you been upto - thought I was the only one who manged that sort of thing!!.
Perhaps you could PM POF and see if he knows a way of reinstalling Word or using the ROM cab files to re-install without having to do a full hard reset. Failing this all you could do would be to create your own blank template but it would not automatically open when you tap new because I think New can only be set to one of the four standard templates - Blank, Memo, Metting Notes and one other I forget. Certainly when I created a template and put it in the templates folder it listed the official four but not mine in the drop down list for the new document default template. (i.e the list that's now empty for you)
Mike
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Good grief what have you been upto - thought I was the only one who manged that sort of thing!!.
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Nope, no chance of that....
There are plenty of "us" around
One shall, er, carefully dig
Ah ha!
I have found that I do actually have some files in the windows directory that are templates.
blank meeting memo phone todo
These did momentarily have Word Template icons moments ago, and tried to go in via Word again but now the icons match up with notes.
blank 0b
meeting 1.55k
memo 2.06k
phone 1.96k
todo 3.02k
Right clicking over "blank" reveals that it is read only. I have tried but I cannot remove the RO flag. I am hoping that because the file is zero bytes then this is causing the problems, which are still there
Onwards eh!
Edit: The 0 byte file is actually a memo file. The Word templates are 7kb apart from Todo which is 14k...
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Ah ha!
I have found that I do actually have some files in the windows directory that are templates.
blank meeting memo phone todo
These did momentarily have Word Template icons moments ago, and tried to go in via Word again but now the icons match up with notes.
blank 0b
meeting 1.55k
memo 2.06k
phone 1.96k
todo 3.02k
Right clicking over "blank" reveals that it is read only. I have tried but I cannot remove the RO flag. I am hoping that because the file is zero bytes then this is causing the problems, which are still there
Onwards eh!
Edit: The 0 byte file is actually a memo file. The Word templates are 7kb apart from Todo which is 14k...
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Those file sizes look fine apart from blank.dot which should also be 7kb.
On mine I just checked the templates and they should open directly from the windows directly. They all have word icons.
Mike
I have the notes templates and the word templates. Alas late night scrolling across the PDA got me confused.
Do you know of a way to make the files non read only? I don't seem to be able to change that at all? I've tried in Windows and on the PDA.
Although, I have now fixed the ActivSync issue so it doesn't keep disconnecting Grr Hubs Grr.
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I have the notes templates and the word templates. Alas late night scrolling across the PDA got me confused.
Do you know of a way to make the files non read only? I don't seem to be able to change that at all? I've tried in Windows and on the PDA.
Although, I have now fixed the ActivSync issue so it doesn't keep disconnecting Grr Hubs Grr.
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Nope, I tried reseting read only tag on both PDA and PC as well, no joy. I have posted a thread asking if anyone knows how to re-install an application without hard re-set. I believe it is possible if you have extended rom cabs showing but which cabs as I do not see one clearly marked Word.cab or something similar. The joys!!!
Mike
Thank you Mike for all your help.
I've not even breached the option of ROMs yet or even dabbled in it, and I don't think I've got the guts to juuuuuust yet
If all else then I shall do a reset, a hard reset.
I seem to have this problem also, interestingly. Today when I tried to open the word mobile program, I got this prompt saying that I can't open a new word document due to some error and brings me to my storage card wif all the word documents which I can open wif ease. What seems to be the problem? Any way I can reinstall this program again without hard resetting? I am pretty sure it's not some software conflicts, maybe I accidentally removed some shared files with memmaid.
YES!! Finally I got it. I shifted my documents folder with the sub folder 'templates' to the storage card before so now I just placed back the templates subfolder to the device's My Documents folder and that basically solved my problem!
For some strange reasons, now I'm unable to open word document unless the file size is real small like less than 10KB in size. I was once able to open files up to 110kB in size (although it seems to take ages for the spinning colored pie to render the vertical scroll bar).
The error message that I get is "A problem with the document was encountered and it cannot be opened."
I've googled this. Some suggest that it is due to missing template, which is certainly not so in my case. My template folder and files are sitting nicely in the my document folder in the device memory. Some also suggested that word mobile is unable to read desktop document files and that we need to save it as RTF file. I tried this, but it does not solve the problem. In fact, the document was created with word mobile originally.
Is anyone of you having this problem too?
Oh dear, this is a problem known to microsoft. This is no good.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911420
I had seen the same error message mentioned in this article appearing on my device before but I dismissed it as it came and went too quickly.
In this support note, microsoft thinks that it happens if the document is in SD card. But I have the same problem even if the document is on microdrive and device memory.
I transferred my document from SD card to the device memory and tried to load it in, and still have the same problem.
hrmm ive never had trouble opening any size word doc. Although conceivably I didnt start opening word docs much until I had TextMaker 2006 installed. But in all my times on WM ive never come across I doc I wasnt unable to open, except for word 2007 docx files, but thats due to compatibility so.
I was once able to open any size document too. Although I has seen thoses error messages, I was able to open with repeated trying. Then now it becomes very predictable - no problem withbreal tiny files, but errors if the files are big.
May be time for hard reset again?
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I was once able to open any size document too. Although I has seen thoses error messages, I was able to open with repeated trying. Then now it becomes very predictable - no problem withbreal tiny files, but errors if the files are big.
May be time for hard reset again?
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I also experienced a lot of problems after Textmaker installed.
I have no such problems with Textmaker and Planmaker installed...
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I also experienced a lot of problems after Textmaker installed.
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what's the nature of your problem? is it with text maker or word? Is it the same or different problem?
This is wierd. All of a sudden I am able to open all files regardless of size again. Did'nt have to do any hard reset.
I need help in reading pdf documents on my 8525. Clearview PDF does not readust the text to the 8525 screen. Is there a way around this so that I dont need scroll left to right for every line that I read.
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I need help in reading pdf documents on my 8525. Clearview PDF does not readust the text to the 8525 screen. Is there a way around this so that I dont need scroll left to right for every line that I read.
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Hi,
There is a PDF reader from adobe and it will resolve your problem. However it does take up some valuable memory
If you need any other pgms, here's a great link to popular cabs.
I want to use Nook simple touch for reading lecture notes. The thing is that notes contain a lot of mathematic symbols, the format i use is pdf. I tried other format and everything was messed up. When i use pdf version in normal letter size everything is ok but letters are too small for relaxing reading, so when i try to increase letter size everything is messed up (mathematics types are lost or get confused).
Does anyone know how to deal with that?? I tried some other reader apps but everything is much worse than the default reader. Unfortunatelly i can not use a lot of reader apps. It is rooted but android version does not support a lot of reader versions.
Thank you very much in advance.
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I want to use Nook simple touch for reading lecture notes. The thing is that notes contain a lot of mathematic symbols, the format i use is pdf. I tried other format and everything was messed up. When i use pdf version in normal letter size everything is ok but letters are too small for relaxing reading, so when i try to increase letter size everything is messed up (mathematics types are lost or get confused).
Does anyone know how to deal with that?? I tried some other reader apps but everything is much worse than the default reader. Unfortunatelly i can not use a lot of reader apps. It is rooted but android version does not support a lot of reader versions.
Thank you very much in advance.
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try orion viewer - I use it even for books which are scanned as "open book" two pages on one page , use it in landscape mode