So there are a couple Powerpoint Apps for the Xoom. Unfortunately, like allot of Office Suites there is some rendering and formatting issues when it comes to Powerpoint Documents. So if you are looking for an app to deliver your Powerpoints on, you might have to look elsewhere because they most likely won’t look the same. Unfortunately there isn’t allot of options out there, in fact I couldn’t find any. Please someone prove me wrong . However I have been going through a couple solutions. One solution is one I use at work because formatting problems even occur going across different Microsoft Powerpoint versions. So we convert to PDF and then present with a PDF viewer in fullscreen. An app like this doesn’t seem to exist yet. Again please someone prove me wrong . I dug a little deeper and came up with this Workaround. You can save your Powerpoint as Pictures on your computer. Its very easy in Microsoft Powerpoint and then you can load them in a folder on the Xoom and use the stock Gallery App to view them. And you know what… It Works!!! It has a very nice full-screen effect works great on the projector, and really isn’t too many additional steps. Its not the best thing in the world. But if you want to deliver powerpoint on your Xoom without worry about format getting messed up, this is a workable solution for now. I apologize if this was already suggested on the Xoom forum, I didn't come across it. I have a video also showing this in action.
I mentioned that in a very early thread but not as detailed. I also posted a comprehensive comparison between three different office suites (will post links later). Downside with PDF conversion is that animations are lost and I am not sure that the PDF rendering on the Xoom is 100% accurate.
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Actually docs to go is much better at displaying power point then quick office pro. Ironically I had docs to go first. Then I bought the xoom and found that the native quickoffice app was better and accurately displaying excel compared to Docs to Go so when I got an email about quickoffice hd pro for tablets I was all over it. Excel was wonderful. Then today I had a presentation in a meeting and I thought great I'll play the slides on my xoom. It was a video conference. Anyway the slides were aweful. Formatting was a mess even on simple slides. I thought maybe it was a bug in quickoffice hd pro and tried the regular quckoffice. Same results. Finally I tried Docs to Go and low and behold the pages were perfect.
BTW word also displays more correctly in quickoffice then in Docs to go. Looks like the quickoffice guys just dropped the ball big time on power point. I'd say that Doc's to Go is better all around office program.
ethion said:
Actually docs to go is much better at displaying power point then quick office pro. Ironically I had docs to go first. Then I bought the xoom and found that the native quickoffice app was better and accurately displaying excel compared to Docs to Go so when I got an email about quickoffice hd pro for tablets I was all over it. Excel was wonderful. Then today I had a presentation in a meeting and I thought great I'll play the slides on my xoom. It was a video conference. Anyway the slides were aweful. Formatting was a mess even on simple slides. I thought maybe it was a bug in quickoffice hd pro and tried the regular quckoffice. Same results. Finally I tried Docs to Go and low and behold the pages were perfect.
BTW word also displays more correctly in quickoffice then in Docs to go. Looks like the quickoffice guys just dropped the ball big time on power point. I'd say that Doc's to Go is better all around office program.
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Sounds like an embarrasing situation with ppt and quickoffice. You should report that to them!
Please bear with me, as I am new to the Android scene and just recently unlocked my bootloader and rooted my Nexus 7.
I am currently looking for a way to add my own .epub books to the Play Books app, as want to keep my books all in one place and keep it simple on me.
I thought there'd be a directory where it stores its books, but have not been able to locate it or find a successful way to have my books displayed in the Play Books app.
Any ideas or am I missing something?
After a bit of research, it seems the Google Play Books app only looks for books purchase in the Play Store?
There must be a way around it
Yung Lovah said:
After a bit of research, it seems the Google Play Books app only looks for books purchase in the Play Store?
There must be a way around it
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Interesting to know.
So, presumably you need to install a different epub reader and run it in parallel. Anyone here can recommend a good free one that works with the N7?
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Interesting to know.
So, presumably you need to install a different epub reader and run it in parallel. Anyone here can recommend a good free one that works with the N7?
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Try Aldiko, a pretty decent ereader app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aldiko.android&hl=en
There is a free and paid version.
As far as I know there is no way to import your own books to play books. I use the nook app for my epubs, I don't read enough ebooks to give you a better app than that though
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I started using Moon Reader.
I just wish I could have all my books in one spot.
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+1 moon reader. I made a folder called books, put all my books in there and pointed moon reader to it
+1 for Aldiko
Using Cool Reader right now. Its full featured and free without ads or nag screen. There's also an option to donate to support the developer, but its optional and no featured is taken out in the free version either ( unlike some of the other readers ).
i like the nook app, i can add my own books and i like the animations
Thanks for the suggestions. I am trying both alkido and moon+ reader.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I am trying both alkido and moon+ reader.
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Let us know which one you like better.
I use Caliber to convert files into .mobi , and then run them in the Kindle app.
You just plant them in sdcard/Android/Data/com.amazon.kindle/files and it will pick them up.
So now i'm settled with two library types.
Only downside is you don't get that cool page flip animation. lol
+1 Aldiko
+1 for cool reader. I also like FBReader. I actually use a combination of the two along with the B&N Nook app and the Kindle App... depends on where the book is... At one point I was using Calibre to remove the DRM, but I kind of like the bookshelf display of the the B&N app, etc...
i think this is a huge blunder on Google's part. This device is geared towards content, but yet I can't add ePub books I've purchased from other sites and use it with the included book app. I have to add a third party app that takes up storage and diminishes the Google experience. If I have to use a third party app to read ebooks, why bother purchasing them from the Play Store? Google seems to be severely deficient in their marketing dept.
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i think this is a huge blunder on Google's part. This device is geared towards content, but yet I can't add ePub books I've purchased from other sites and use it with the included book app. I have to add a third party app that takes up storage and diminishes the Google experience. If I have to use a third party app to read ebooks, why bother purchasing them from the Play Store? Google seems to be severely deficient in their marketing dept.
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I bought two books from Google Play yesterday, and one of them didn't offer the option of downloading the epub to a computer. This led me to check quite a few other books, especially those on sale, and I found that the majority also didn't allow downloading to a computer. Of course, this means the books can't be read anywhere but through the Google Books app, and it isn't possible to remove DRM to allow for backup of the books on customers' own hard drives or cloud storage choices.
I have only bought a few books from Google in the past, and hadn't encountered this problem before. I'm not sure if their policies have changed, or if I happened to be lucky in my previous choice of books. I won't be buying any more books from Google if I can't make deDRMed backup copies. Even if I didn't want to deDRM the books, this change means that they can no longer be read with Nook or Sony ereaders or tablets unless they allow the addition of the Google Books app. I feel this is unreasonably restrictive, and I am not aware of a way to circumvent their controls (unlike with Amazon's or even iTunes' DRM schemes).
I have not yet contacted Google to ask if the non-downloadable books are a temporary glitch, or if they have done this on purpose.
Has anyone else noticed this? Does it bother you?
TLDR: Anyway, my point is that you should check books you plan to buy from Google Play, if you don't want to have those books be unusable anywhere but in the Google Books app.
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I bought two books from Google Play yesterday, and one of them didn't offer the option of downloading the epub to a computer. This led me to check quite a few other books, especially those on sale, and I found that the majority also didn't allow downloading to a computer. Of course, this means the books can't be read anywhere but through the Google Books app, and it isn't possible to remove DRM to allow for backup of the books on customers' own hard drives or cloud storage choices.
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DRMed music went the way of the dodo, thankfully. But the moment books are very much DRMed.
The vast majority of books can only be purchased with heavy DRM restrictions, stores that only allow DRM free books simply don't have them. You either pirate them or you are stuck with DRM.
Google play store, amazon kindle, and B&N nook store all allow heavy handed DRM so they all have a full selection of books (those heavy DRM books can be found in all 3).
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i like the nook app, i can add my own books and i like the animations
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The nook app is cool.. If you download the kindle app you can place all your books in SD/kindle and it'll play most file types I think (PDF, epub, mobile, etc.)
+1 for Moon Reader Pro.
I am using my Galaxy 10.1 in the field for work to fill in a pdf that I have created with Adobe X pro(desktop). I can use this form on my tablet with no problem, however, the generic adobe reader will not allow me to save it or send a copy directly out from the tablet. After I exit the reader I am able to send out the template(and others are able to read my work), but when I open the template back up for the next job, I have to clear all of the data and start over. I have spoken with some friends that have I-pads and they say they have a "Flatten" option which saves all the work that they have done on the pdf, and then they are able to send it.
Any help on this situation. Basically I am needing a program to perform work on a pdf with save and send options. pdf reader, read and fill, quick office, and any other one I have searched for on PlayStore are worthless.
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Ker 3.1.10
I use EZPDF to markup PDF files that I review with acceptable results for ME. However I do not use forms much at all.
With EZPDF if I'm going to mark a PDF up and I want to preserve the original I have to be sure to save-as first and then do my markups. I do have the option though to do that.
Similarly Quickoffice Pro HD works well too.
I believe both may be paid applications but they're worth the price IMO.
I went to twitter to contact the kindle department @Amazonkindle to ask them why they don't supportin Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 as they do Android and Apple. What I mean is the cloud service for the items you upload which is a great feature and I didn't really think anything of it until my asus transformer died. I leaned to try and use my Lumia to no avail as well as my Windows 8 laptop. Then I proceeded to try it on my wife's iphone and it worked....... I know this may sound petty just reaching out to see if anyone else has this issue or knows of a WORKAROUND. I want to thank you for your time and feel free to contact Amazon as well!
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I went to twitter to contact the kindle department @Amazonkindle to ask them why they don't supportin Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 as they do Android and Apple. What I mean is the cloud service for the items you upload which is a great feature and I didn't really think anything of it until my asus transformer died. I leaned to try and use my Lumia to no avail as well as my Windows 8 laptop. Then I proceeded to try it on my wife's iphone and it worked....... I know this may sound petty just reaching out to see if anyone else has this issue or knows of a WORKAROUND. I want to thank you for your time and feel free to contact Amazon as well!
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I contaced Amazon support with basicaly the same question a few days ago, sitll haven't received an answer. My Question was regarding the fact that amazon allows purchases of Comics for the android and ios Apps of Kindle, but not Windows 8 Or Windows Phone 8.
I know with my T101 biting dust I cannot read my tech books now would hope that we as a community could come together on these issues.
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In WP7, the solution was to use a file browser to sideload the content directly, which (mildly surprisingly) worked flawlessly; the Application Data folder was laid out very much like the root folder of an actual Kindle device.
In WP8, we don't currently have any file browser with enough permissions to write into (or even read from, actually) the relevant folder. The isolated storage explorer tools would work if the app were sideloaded, but that's blocked for retail (store) apps.
The only work-around I can recommend right now is to use a different e-reader app. There are lots of them on the store, most are free, some can even read Amazon's formats (use Calibre to convert the files otherwise) and they all support synching from some "cloud" provider (usually DropBox).
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GoodDayToDie said:
In WP7, the solution was to use a file browser to sideload the content directly, which (mildly surprisingly) worked flawlessly; the Application Data folder was laid out very much like the root folder of an actual Kindle device.
In WP8, we don't currently have any file browser with enough permissions to write into (or even read from, actually) the relevant folder. The isolated storage explorer tools would work if the app were sideloaded, but that's blocked for retail (store) apps.
The only work-around I can recommend right now is to use a different e-reader app. There are lots of them on the store, most are free, some can even read Amazon's formats (use Calibre to convert the files otherwise) and they all support synching from some "cloud" provider (usually DropBox).
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I use dropbox and specifically uploaded them to Amazon truthfully to use one reader, and it would be sync'd across all my devices I thought. My Transformer just magically started working but I would still like this ability. I like calibre but with Kindle if you use your email address and have a pdf and put convert in subject it will change it for you. Less work on my local machine so to say. I just don't know why they would leave this out to users. I wonder does the BB have the cloud option if so this is really messed up.
I understand Google owns Quickoffice. Don't understand why they would install Polaris Office along with Quickoffice on the S5. Anyone know why, or what the differences are?
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I understand Google owns Quickoffice. Don't understand why they would install Polaris Office along with Quickoffice on the S5. Anyone know why, or what the differences are?
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1. QuickOffice will be replaced by the seperate Docs, Sheets and Slides app
2. These seperate google apps can safe to the external SD card. You'll have to manually navigate to the folder though, can't just hit the safe button.
3, The Google apps allow you to edit google docs type documents in your Drive folder.
4. For local files, Polaris office is (imho) much better.
On a more political level: Google wants you to use their apps. Samsung wants to add their apps.
In this case i agree with Samsing and i definitely don't consider Polaris as bloatware. It is a very good mobile office app imho.