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[Q] Decent/fancy PDF (or eBook) reader?

Guys, I read my local paper on my bus journey home each day, it's usually over 40 pages and can be 30-110Mb in size (depending on adverts and photos)
I've tried all the free readers and the only one that works without crashing is the free office app that came with the Tab, however this doesn't have a way to jump a few pages, for example, if I'm on page 20 and nearing home I want to jump to the back page to read the sports pages before I get off, with the office app I have to swipe right to the end
Is there anything out there that can handle the paper and also be able to jump around pages (and preferably, one that is nice to look at and maybe even animates turning pages!)
if anyone has any paid PDF viewers, can you try the paper and let me know how it handles it? (todays happens to be the smallest so far at 21Mb though I'll be putting tomorrows there in 16 hours so it depends when you read this as to which you download)
www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.pdf
Thanks

EzPDF reader is my favorite, does everything you need and is updated frequently by the developer.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/ezpdf-reader/udk.android.reader
Unfortunately there is no PDF annotation tool available for Android yet...

I've been using RepliGo Reader to handle some of my larger PDFs and find it satisfactory. It has a nice Reading View, supports Bookmarks, lets you go to any page you want, and select text for copying to another app. If the PDF has been set up properly, selecting the Bookmarks option shows a Table of Contents for fast moving around larger documents. It even handles the Adobe DRM files, which is one of the main reasons I use it. So far it has opened everything I have thrown at it, which is not the case with some of the other PDF readers I have tried. There is no fancy page animation, just a solid and usable app.

daniel.weck said:
EzPDF reader is my favorite, does everything you need and is updated frequently by the developer.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/ezpdf-reader/udk.android.reader
Unfortunately there is no PDF annotation tool available for Android yet...
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I've tried that, it doesn't like large PDF's
Maris_ said:
I've been using RepliGo Reader to handle some of my larger PDFs and find it satisfactory. It has a nice Reading View, supports Bookmarks, lets you go to any page you want, and select text for copying to another app. If the PDF has been set up properly, selecting the Bookmarks option shows a Table of Contents for fast moving around larger documents. It even handles the Adobe DRM files, which is one of the main reasons I use it. So far it has opened everything I have thrown at it, which is not the case with some of the other PDF readers I have tried. There is no fancy page animation, just a solid and usable app.
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I will give that a go, thanks

I'm currently reading a graphically-rich 12MB book with 740 pages, and RepliGo Reader really lacks the zoom + navigation features that make the reading experience acceptable. On top of that, large books take *ages* to load, the font kerning is often wrong (weird character spacing), and the page refresh logic is really distracting (transition from blurry bitmap to fine text in scalable vector graphics mode).
That's why I recommended the cheaper, but more full-featured ezPDF Reader.
I hope you eventually find what you need
Cheers, Dan

daniel.weck said:
I'm currently reading a graphically-rich 12MB book with 740 pages, and RepliGo Reader really lacks the zoom + navigation features that make the reading experience acceptable. On top of that, large books take *ages* to load, the font kerning is often wrong (weird character spacing), and the page refresh logic is really distracting (transition from blurry bitmap to fine text in scalable vector graphics mode).
That's why I recommended the cheaper, but more full-featured ezPDF Reader.
I hope you eventually find what you need
Cheers, Dan
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can you try it with the newspaper I've linked to?
I've just uploaded todays which is 40 pages and 65Mb (av 1.6Mb per page) which is about normal each day and will be more challenging than a book that's on average 0.016Mb per page
the pages in the 20's are most difficult as they have adverts and classifieds in them
www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.pdf

ezPDF is one of the best I've used so far
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tried them all, repligo is the fastest page render by far.

bubblebob said:
ezPDF is one of the best I've used so far
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le3ky said:
tried them all, repligo is the fastest page render by far.
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how do they cope with the paper I've linked to above?
that's all I'll be using it for
www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.pdf

mmace said:
Guys, I read my local paper on my bus journey home each day, it's usually over 40 pages and can be 30-110Mb in size (depending on adverts and photos)
I've tried all the free readers and the only one that works without crashing is the free office app that came with the Tab, however this doesn't have a way to jump a few pages, for example, if I'm on page 20 and nearing home I want to jump to the back page to read the sports pages before I get off, with the office app I have to swipe right to the end
Is there anything out there that can handle the paper and also be able to jump around pages (and preferably, one that is nice to look at and maybe even animates turning pages!)
if anyone has any paid PDF viewers, can you try the paper and let me know how it handles it? (todays happens to be the smallest so far at 21Mb though I'll be putting tomorrows there in 16 hours so it depends when you read this as to which you download)
www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.pdf
Thanks
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Have you tried the Adobe Android app?
Might also want to look into turning it into an epub. Download Calibre for your PC/Mac, let it do the conversion, and can even be setup to automatically pull down news sources and convert them to the format of your choice, and sync them to your device of choice.
Just to reiterate a bit, Calibre rocks.
For epub readers, I'm really fond of Aldiko. And Perfect Viewer is also a nice app for CBZ, PDF, etc (though the UI could use a bit of work).

mmace said:
how do they cope with the paper I've linked to above?
that's all I'll be using it for
www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.pdf
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I downloaded the paper and tried it with the free Adobe Reader app from the Market and it works fine. All graphics and text are there. If you use the "Continuous Scroll" you can quickly scroll through a birdseye view of the pages until you find the one you want to view. The "Fit to Screen" view does what it says and a double-tap on an article or text area will zoom it to an easily readable size. It also supports pinch to zoom if you need a different size. Long-pressing the screen brings up a scrollbar across the bottom and some other options.
RepliGo Reader also renders all but the very first page for some reason, but it is a paid app, and for a newspaper, the Adobe Reader does just as nice a job for free.
I tried to take screenshots of the various menu options and choices, but neither app will let me create one. No such thing as a long-press on the back button because they immediately go back until they exit.
Hope this info helps.

Croak said:
Have you tried the Adobe Android app?
Might also want to look into turning it into an epub. Download Calibre for your PC/Mac, let it do the conversion, and can even be setup to automatically pull down news sources and convert them to the format of your choice, and sync them to your device of choice.
Just to reiterate a bit, Calibre rocks.
For epub readers, I'm really fond of Aldiko. And Perfect Viewer is also a nice app for CBZ, PDF, etc (though the UI could use a bit of work).
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Hi, I've tried the official Adobe Reader and it never even renders the 1st page, it just crashes the Tab after a minute or 2 of trying
I will look into the ebook thing, thanks
Maris_ said:
I downloaded the paper and tried it with the free Adobe Reader app from the Market and it works fine. All graphics and text are there. If you use the "Continuous Scroll" you can quickly scroll through a birdseye view of the pages until you find the one you want to view. The "Fit to Screen" view does what it says and a double-tap on an article or text area will zoom it to an easily readable size. It also supports pinch to zoom if you need a different size. Long-pressing the screen brings up a scrollbar across the bottom and some other options.
RepliGo Reader also renders all but the very first page for some reason, but it is a paid app, and for a newspaper, the Adobe Reader does just as nice a job for free.
I tried to take screenshots of the various menu options and choices, but neither app will let me create one. No such thing as a long-press on the back button because they immediately go back until they exit.
Hope this info helps.
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I've tried the official one and it had trouble loading any pages at all and crashed each time

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Just to reiterate a bit, Calibre rocks.
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Or not. I have a few PDF books i bought from Manning, and Calibre fails flat on face on those files. Yes, it does convert them - but all pictures are destroyed during the conversion and because of the signature at bottom of every page, it makes the final epub file even worse.
Only if there would be a reader which could read both epub and pdf formats in one app.

faugusztin said:
Or not. I have a few PDF books i bought from Manning, and Calibre fails flat on face on those files. Yes, it does convert them - but all pictures are destroyed during the conversion and because of the signature at bottom of every page, it makes the final epub file even worse.
Only if there would be a reader which could read both epub and pdf formats in one app.
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I just tried it to convert today's 120Mb paper to an 80Mb ePub, just uploading it now to test

Trying to import todays paper into Aldiko and it's said "Importing Books..." for over 20 minutes now, it;s only an 80Mb book, I think this software has failed at the first hurdle
Any other "decent" ePub readers out there?

mmace said:
Hi, I've tried the official Adobe Reader and it never even renders the 1st page, it just crashes the Tab after a minute or 2 of trying
I will look into the ebook thing, thanks
I've tried the official one and it had trouble loading any pages at all and crashed each time
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Sorry these apps didn't work for you. I didn't have any crashes using the link you provided with either app on my Tab (T-Mo version, not rooted). I'm out of ideas at this point. I even tried it on my Nexus One and had no problems. Sorry.

Maris_ said:
Sorry these apps didn't work for you. I didn't have any crashes using the link you provided with either app on my Tab (T-Mo version, not rooted). I'm out of ideas at this point. I even tried it on my Nexus One and had no problems. Sorry.
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maybe it's because yesterdays paper was so small?
can you try again now?
I just uploaded today's which is 120Mb
www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.pdf
Hope it's not my Tab
I've also done an ePub, www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.epub which is 80Mb

Converting a PDF with rich column layout (like newspapers or magazines) into an EPUB is a terrible idea. EPUB is designed for reflowable text, not for pixel-perfect ("fixed layout") documents.
I noticed that ezPDF provides "intelligent" navigation features, to automatically move from one column to the next, in order to mimic the human reading flow (eye movement). Unfortunately some PDFs (including the 60MB example kindly provided in this thread for testing) are badly formatted and do not indicate the correct reading flow.
By the way, this unfortunate mediocre PDF encoding is the main cause for awful EPUB conversions. The misuse of typesetting tools in the publishing industry results in pretty poor content quality, structurally-speaking (because the emphasis is on visual appearance, not raw content organization).
So, the best course of action is to continue testing PDF readers (in depth, not just superficially => use previous/next navigation features, double-tap zoom with column scroll-locking, pinch/stretch zoom for fine margin adjustments, placemarks / bookmarks, etc. etc.).
Some PDF reading apps are better maintained than others on the Market. There may be opportunities to report bugs or request features.
Cheers, Dan

mmace said:
I just uploaded today's which is 120Mb
www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.pdf
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LOL, even my modern laptop struggles to browse this PDF smoothly
I don't expect a mobile device to offer a smooth reading experience
mmace said:
I've also done an ePub, www.maffmace.co.uk/YEP.epub which is 80Mb
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Don't bother. EPUB conversion is not satisfactory for this kind of PDF content (as I explained in the post above).
Cheers, Dan

daniel.weck said:
Converting a PDF with rich column layout (like newspapers or magazines) into an EPUB is a terrible idea. EPUB is designed for reflowable text, not for pixel-perfect ("fixed layout") documents.
I noticed that ezPDF provides "intelligent" navigation features, to automatically move from one column to the next, in order to mimic the human reading flow (eye movement). Unfortunately some PDFs (including the 60MB example kindly provided in this thread for testing) are badly formatted and do not indicate the correct reading flow.
By the way, this unfortunate mediocre PDF encoding is the main cause for awful EPUB conversions. The misuse of typesetting tools in the publishing industry results in pretty poor content quality, structurally-speaking (because the emphasis is on visual appearance, not raw content organization).
So, the best course of action is to continue testing PDF readers (in depth, not just superficially => use previous/next navigation features, double-tap zoom with column scroll-locking, pinch/stretch zoom for fine margin adjustments, placemarks / bookmarks, etc. etc.).
Some PDF reading apps are better maintained than others on the Market. There may be opportunities to report bugs or request features.
Cheers, Dan
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the 60Mb one was "created" by myself, each page sent to the printers is around 4Mb, I then put them all together in 1 file and then "print" to a PDF file at 72dpi and A6 page size to reduce the file size
If you download the 120Mb one today, that one is the original files just merged into 1 PDF
I cannot test PDF readers in depth because most don't even open large PDF's like todays

Powerpoint Presentations on Xoom without Format Issues

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!

[Q] pdf read experience

Not sure if this is an appropriate forum to post… but here goes.
I am looking to buy Nook Color primarily to read pdfs. I would say part of my work requires spending a lot of time reading (and put comments in) pdfs.
My concern is how is the pdf reading experience on NC with 7" display. I'm especially looking to hear from anyone who uses NC to read pdfs.
Are all kinds of pdfs with different settings comfortabley viewable (that is, you don’t have to constantly zoom in and zoom out a page on a pdf book).
Thanks a lot in advance for your valuable insight.

I've read a few PDFs on my nook and it's mostly good. The thing is, it depends very much on the formatting of the individual PDFs themselves. Since they're fairly static, the ones I've used don't reflow well (ie. you lose formatting or images) if you try to use that option. If they are mostly text, then it shouldn't be as much of a problem. The ones I have read most are formatted in a 4x3 aspect ration, so on the Nook's 16x9 screen, they are very small with a border on the top and bottom in portrait mode (unless you zoom and scroll), but in landscape mode they are very readable aside from some extra scrolling required. All in all, it's really not bad. By the way, I mainly use the ezPDF reader app instead of Acrobat.

I've been using ezpdreader. It works for me, since I'm a grad student I read a lot of pdfs just like you. With this app you can do all sorts of annotations (comments, highlights, etc). It takes a little time loading big pdfs, for now it is the best app I have found for my needs.
It works better if you have your pdfs ocred. I use Acrobat Pro to ocr files before uploading to NC. Once it's ocred you can use the autozoom (full screen view) by double tapping the screen and you can read on landscape or portrait.
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Yeah, same here, grad student reading papers as pdfs with ezPDF reader. I've found it works great for new pdf's, where you can auto-zoom to fit columns and figures and use text reflow. For older pdfs (eg. scanned images) it's not that good. But I've not tried to run optical character recognition (ocr) on them either, I'll have to try try that. The best benefit though, is the fact that it keeps a full file cabinet of papers so I can always jump back to my 'favorites' or primary references, and if I'm at a conference I can find and add new ones.

NCKevo said:
Yeah, same here, grad student reading papers as pdfs with ezPDF reader. I've found it works great for new pdf's, where you can auto-zoom to fit columns and figures and use text reflow. For older pdfs (eg. scanned images) it's not that good. But I've not tried to run optical character recognition (ocr) on them either, I'll have to try try that. The best benefit though, is the fact that it keeps a full file cabinet of papers so I can always jump back to my 'favorites' or primary references, and if I'm at a conference I can find and add new ones.
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Yeah I have lots of scanned pdfs and I used, as I said before, Acrobat Pro in my PC to recognize text. As we all know ocr isn't perfect but at least it will let you highlight the words in the pdf (even when it didn't correctly identified the right word). So you might not be able to copy paste a sentence correctly, but you will be able to make annotations on the pdf.

I haven't tried ezPDF so I can't comment but I do strongly recommend you to try out the Mantano PDF Reader.

I mostly use ezPDF too. I've looked at Mantano because people seem so enthusiastic about it, but it doesn't do the fit to the screen or column that ezPDF does.

popsnorkle said:
I mostly use ezPDF too. I've looked at Mantano because people seem so enthusiastic about it, but it doesn't do the fit to the screen or column that ezPDF does.
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You meant it auto zoom to fit the page on screen?

popsnorkle said:
I mostly use ezPDF too. I've looked at Mantano because people seem so enthusiastic about it, but it doesn't do the fit to the screen or column that ezPDF does.
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Mantano allows fit to screen and several varieties of zoom, and can zoom on a column with the appropriate gesture. A number of solid ezpdf users have switched to mantano recently. However, if you want to do a lot of different types of annotations, repligo is still the way to go.

skwalas said:
Mantano allows fit to screen and several varieties of zoom, and can zoom on a column with the appropriate gesture. A number of solid ezpdf users have switched to mantano recently. However, if you want to do a lot of different types of annotations, repligo is still the way to go.
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I had repligo before ezpdf but it wouldn't let me highlight ocr pdfs. So I switch and ezpdf hasn't failed me yet, it also has all type of annotations even free hand
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Annotation features of polaris office

As we all know polaris office is kind of limited in many ways in terms of function and performance. The only time I use it however is when I need to add handwriting annotations for both word documents and PowerPoint slides. These are nifty features and I've tried a few but yet to find any office apps which can do it. Any suggestions?
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Jasonchewy91 said:
As we all know polaris office is kind of limited in many ways in terms of function and performance. The only time I use it however is when I need to add handwriting annotations for both word documents and PowerPoint slides. These are nifty features and I've tried a few but yet to find any office apps which can do it. Any suggestions?
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Kingsoft Office brought out an earlier version of their office suite that supported the original note's s-pen. It's still available at their website. Download and install it from there, not the Playstore. Do not update it as the update no longer supports the s-pen. http://www.kingsoftstore.com/android-office-samsung

mke1973 said:
Kingsoft Office brought out an earlier version of their office suite that supported the original note's s-pen. It's still available at their website. Download and install it from there, not the Playstore. Do not update it as the update no longer supports the s-pen. http://www.kingsoftstore.com/android-office-samsung
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Thanks mke.
Kingsoft Office is my fav Office app since it's the only one (AFAIK) that can read and shows equations written in Word files (in the PC, with the standard "Equation Editor" or with the Commercial "MathType") then imported in the GNote 10.1. You can't edit them (they are imported as images) but at least you can see them with Kingsoft Office.
All other office apps I've tried so far (quite many) fails to even show them .
Having said that, thanks for your advice about using the Kingsoft Office app (downloadable here) that support the S-Pen. I didn't know about that and I've replaced with it the app that I had previosly downloaded from Google Play.
Anyway I'm at a loss at using the S-Pen for handwritten annotation.
I can annotate, but I can't see any option to change the ink color or size or to erase some annotation (apart from the undo option).
Maybe there's none of these features, or maybe I'm missing some setting or some way to access them through the menu.
Can somebody help me?

When using the samsung s-pen supported version, you can add on screen comments in different colors by pressing the s-pen's button once while the stylus is touching the screen. This brings up the s-pen's color/pen/brush/pencil settings. After you've made your selections annotate away. For revisions, you must go the traditional route of choosing the keyboard s-pen, which then gets converted into text. I've included 2 screen shots showing the s-pen option box and then different colored comments.

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When using the samsung s-pen supported version, you can add on screen comments in different colors by pressing the s-pen's button once while the stylus is touching the screen. This brings up the s-pen's color/pen/brush/pencil settings. After you've made your selections annotate away. For revisions, you must go the traditional route of choosing the keyboard s-pen, which then gets converted into text. I've included 2 screen shots showing the s-pen option box and then different colored comments.
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Thanks! It works!
I'd never have found it out by myself.
Anyway it seems that there's pressure sensitivity while writing but it disappears just after the drawing is processed into the document.
There's no eraser too?

sphere314 said:
Thanks! It works!
I'd never have found it out by myself.
Anyway it seems that there's pressure sensitivity while writing but it disappears just after the drawing is processed into the document.
There's no eraser too?
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Rather than sensitivity, line width seems to be the only option (in the s-pen settings box). So far, I've not found a way to erase so I use the undo tool bar feature. There are no real instructions that I've found; perhaps there's an erase feature buried that I've not discovered. I don't know if this developer would be willing to update the s-pen version if enough note 10.1 users would express interest. If they updated it and only made it a paid app, I'd be willing to buy it. I think it's the best Android office suite to date.

Thanks for this! though the spen functionality isn't as good as polaris'. Ah I can't find one single office app which fulfill all my needs. When is Microsoft office app coming to android?
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mke1973 said:
Kingsoft Office brought out an earlier version of their office suite that supported the original note's s-pen. It's still available at their website. Download and install it from there, not the Playstore. Do not update it as the update no longer supports the s-pen. http://www.kingsoftstore.com/android-office-samsung
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Thanks for the link!
I was able to use the s-pen in word documents, but it didn't work in spreadsheet and presentations. Is there a way to do that?

ddavtian said:
Thanks for the link!
I was able to use the s-pen in word documents, but it didn't work in spreadsheet and presentations. Is there a way to do that?
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Unfortunately, I don't think so, but I haven't found any online instructions for the s-pen enabled app so I've just stumbled on things by trial and error. I wish Samsung had encoraged this developer to update s-pen support for the note 10.1 and note 2. This is one of the best Android office suites, but the updated version doesn't support the s-pen.

sphere314 said:
Thanks mke.
Kingsoft Office is my fav Office app since it's the only one (AFAIK) that can read and shows equations written in Word files (in the PC, with the standard "Equation Editor" or with the Commercial "MathType") then imported in the GNote 10.1. You can't edit them (they are imported as images) but at least you can see them with Kingsoft Office.
All other office apps I've tried so far (quite many) fails to even show them .
Having said that, thanks for your advice about using the Kingsoft Office app (downloadable here) that support the S-Pen. I didn't know about that and I've replaced with it the app that I had previosly downloaded from Google Play.
Anyway I'm at a loss at using the S-Pen for handwritten annotation.
I can annotate, but I can't see any option to change the ink color or size or to erase some annotation (apart from the undo option).
Maybe there's none of these features, or maybe I'm missing some setting or some way to access them through the menu.
Can somebody help me?
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silly question how do you install this?

dtl said:
silly question how do you install this?
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I don't understand your question.
If you are referring to "Equation Editor" it's part of MS Office for PC. Can be installed as an extra and can then be used in Word, Excel, etc.
I don't know about more recent versions of Office but I think something similar is there too.
Anyway that's OT here.

sphere314 said:
I don't understand your question.
If you are referring to "Equation Editor" it's part of MS Office for PC. Can be installed as an extra and can then be used in Word, Excel, etc.
I don't know about more recent versions of Office but I think something similar is there too.
Anyway that's OT here.
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actually was questioning how to install that kingsoft office.

dtl said:
actually was questioning how to install that kingsoft office.
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Last version (v. 5.3.2) is here in GooglePlay.
For the other (older) version with S-Pen support (Kingsoft Office - for Android Samsung Galaxy Note - v. 5.2.128694-en00040) you go here and download the .apk file. (android_office_samsung.apk).
Then you copy the .apk file somewhere in your GNote 10.1 and (with any file manager) tap on it.
In so doing, the app will be installed in your tablet.
Anyway, before doing that, be sure to have enabled Unknown sources in "Settings - Security", otherwise you won't be able to install manually an app this way.

sphere314 said:
Last version (v. 5.3.2) is here in GooglePlay.
For the other (older) version with S-Pen support (Kingsoft Office - for Android Samsung Galaxy Note - v. 5.2.128694-en00040) you go here and download the .apk file. (android_office_samsung.apk).
Then you copy the .apk file somewhere in your GNote 10.1 and (with any file manager) tap on it.
In so doing, the app will be installed in your tablet.
Anyway, before doing that, be sure to have enabled Unknown sources in "Settings - Security", otherwise you won't be able to install manually an app this way.
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Perfect thanks!

dtl said:
Perfect thanks!
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You're welcome
Anyway, as a personal consideration, I'm thinking of returning to the most recent (5.3.2) Google Play general version.
It seems that The GNote/SPen version development has stopped and it doesn't offer very useful SPen improvements apart from the possibility to change the handwritten notes pen colors and size.
For instance there's no eraser and (apparently) no pressure sensitivity.
Furthermore the navigation is more awkward: you haven't the option to turn off the writing pen so that you can't use the pen just to scroll a document but must remember to use your fingers instead to do that.
So I think I'll go back to the newest general version, waiting to see if the SPen version resumes development.

Usage Question - Note Taking plus annotating pdf?

Hey everyone,
I'm contemplating getting the Lenovo Book, probably the Windows version. The usage scenario I'm contemplating is basically having the device opened, on the desk, with the pad. I like to both annotate a pdf/mark things up, and excerpt it, saving that part to maybe a OneNote file. Is it possible to have a pdf open, and write on paper with that being saved somewhere at the same time? Or can I only write onto things that are on the screen at that point?
Thanks!

dsip said:
Hey everyone,
I'm contemplating getting the Lenovo Book, probably the Windows version. The usage scenario I'm contemplating is basically having the device opened, on the desk, with the pad. I like to both annotate a pdf/mark things up, and excerpt it, saving that part to maybe a OneNote file. Is it possible to have a pdf open, and write on paper with that being saved somewhere at the same time? Or can I only write onto things that are on the screen at that point?
Thanks!
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yes, this is possible (at least with the android version). you could open a pdf-file and just take notes on what you read on paper and it is as well saved into note saver app. from there you can export it as pdf.
on the other hand you can also just annotate when you close notesaver app and activate editing in the respective pdf reader.

How to open pdf files with Note Saver?
danjac said:
yes, this is possible (at least with the android version). you could open a pdf-file and just take notes on what you read on paper and it is as well saved into note saver app. from there you can export it as pdf.
on the other hand you can also just annotate when you close notesaver app and activate editing in the respective pdf reader.
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I have the Yoga Book Android version and i couldn`t open a pdf file with Note Saver.
According to your answer this should work.
Felix

[email protected] said:
I have the Yoga Book Android version and i couldn`t open a pdf file with Note Saver.
According to your answer this should work.
Felix
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well no, i've never said so.

Download Xodo pdf reader for Android. Very handy reader with pen support.