Apologies if this isn't the best place to ask the question, and if someone can recommend a better place - then I'm happy to post there.
I have a Samsung Note 10.1 (N8010) which I installed Omni on because I was fed up of waiting for Samsung to provide an update.
I also have an Asus tablet and I really like the Asus build in app MyLibrary.
I can point it at a folder, and it renders a thumbnail for pdfs in that folder, and it seems to be a fairly responsive reader for largish pdfs (about 100MB).
Is there a way to get Asus MyLibrary to work on a Samsung Note 10.1 (N8010)?
I've tried putting the apk into System/App without success.
If not - can someone recommend a good App that gives me a thumbnail view for pdfs in a configured folder, and can handler largish files. I've tried PerfectViewer which does an excellent job of the bookshelf but it seems to struggle with largish Pdfs..
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
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This question has (to my best knowledge) never been addressed in its own thread. I want to use the Xoom (or any other laptop-substitute for that matter) to edit Word and Excel documents, look at presentations on a screen instead of print outs, make last minute changes etc. Maybe take notes during meetings/presentations... you get the idea. It might also be used as multimedia device.
Now, with the currently available accessories (I really like the idea of a case with integrated bluetooth keyboard) is this a reasonable expectation of the Xoom?
Thanks for all your opinions!
I'm not using a bluetooth keyboard but using docs to go with pretty good success. I get an error loading to gdocs but it still does the upload. Some advanced excel functions and word formatting are not the but its decent. The powerpoint part of docs to go is garbage. I have also been using repligo for annotating pdf files and it is very slick well worth the 4.99.
I am trying to use my xoom in place of all the paper docs i used to print and take to meetings. Also signed up to beta test the swiftkey tablet keyboard to see if that works better than this stock honeycomb one.
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Thanks! I'll keep on looking; if not for the Xoom then at least for my Nook
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.
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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.
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Sounds like an embarrasing situation with ppt and quickoffice. You should report that to them!
I am looking for a PDF viewer that will display Title information scrapped out of the metadata rather than the filename. The filenames of the files I am interested in viewing are the document number (i.e. 52343234245.pdf) and the Title is much more user friendly (i.e. LRU User Guide).
When I import PDFs into iBooks on the iPad, this information in automatically scrapped out. Any apps with similar functionality on Android?
Even a desktop utility that does the renaming would be better than nothing.
Lumiread that comes with the A500 shows the metadata, and it also allows you to fetch the metadata from the Internet, too. On 3.0.1 Lumiread is a tad slow, though, but I hear it's gotten some performance improvements in 3.1.
I've been looking for a good pdf viewer with two simple features; remember the page when closing a book and the ability to create bookmarks. Never thought of Lumiread until you mentioned it
Thanks
ezPDF is another one that's absolutely great, offers bookmarks, allows you to highlight selections, add your own notes etc. to PDF files, and it's really fast. It doesn't sport a bookshelf like the Lumiread though, nor does it show metadata.
EDIT: Just asked them if they have any plans to add similar support for metadata and a virtual "bookshelf" to ezPDF, I'll try to remember to mention here when I get a reply.
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Just asked them if they have any plans to add similar support for metadata and a virtual "bookshelf" to ezPDF, I'll try to remember to mention here when I get a reply.
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Thanks, I was going to e-mail them, but the firewall blocks their site for being high risk/malicious.
I'm not getting any reply from ezPDF folks, absolutely none. But after having tried a few other ebook readers Mantano Reader and Aldiko Book Reader both seem pretty good and both also support metadata. So far I lean towards Mantano myself, but I can't really find any specific issues with Aldiko either, just that the bookshelf view is slow to scroll.
Apart from showing metadata, which software is the fastest to flip page?
I found ezReader quite slow
When I flip page using Ipad 2, it really fast & smooth
I need such software for my Iconia as well
Thanks
I have a seemjngly endless collection of ebooks in .pdf format that i have been trying forever to convert to the .pub format for easy reading, and also (please forgive me for this and don't flame) in the style of I books on the I pad (which the Asus reader does very well, with the page turning animations and all)
My problem is this... when I use calibre to convert the .pdf document to the .epub format, certain characters like apostraphies or even quotation marks end up turning out like a square with an x in it... almost as though there was a problem transcoding the document. The page turn animation is all there, but the formatting has been lost and is nothing like the source material at all...
If anyone else has run into this at all, please share with me your solutions for getting the desired result. Alot of these books were digital downloads from either the publisher of the books I own, or strategy guides from either ign or Brady games...
Thanks for all the help that, hopefully, I am about to receive.
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I am reading my .pdf files in Polaris Office. Found it the best experience, even though two big issues: no jump to page, no pdf bookmarks (got to re-create my own). But the zoom, fonts, smooth page transitions are great.
I do not have a good program to convert .pdf to .epub. I found when I tried to read .epub I created myself the Asus TF programs complain about some potential security issues and will not work.
I've tried several, but there's one which really stands out from the crowd. Calibre can convert from a wide variety of formats, it can do batch converts, and is quite intelligent about the way it reformats the text to fit the destination device. I had some trouble originally which came down to problems with the Asus reader application, but on the Honeycomb 3.1 build they are perfect. I have converted literally thousands of books (suprisingly quickly too) and am loving it. You can get it at calibre-ebook.com. Hope this helps.......
Give this one a try...
http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub
If you guys haven't tried it out yet, eZPDF Reader is by far the best PDF reader on Android. Supports page cache (thank the lord), super cool page turn animations, speedy overall performance, really nice user interface/page selector thats always available.
It was free about a month ago off Amazon appstore.
Sounds like you need Calibre... it should take care of all your converting needs.
calibre-ebook.com/
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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.
Galaxy 10.1
And 4.0.4
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.