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Old 06-13-2014, 04:41 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by naftoli View Post
Thanx for the reply DMcCunney!
im using the defualt photo viewer that came with the tablet. is there another viewer i should be using that wont stretch the display?
How can i control the aspect ratio?
The A727 includes connectivity to Google's Play Store, and there are a lot of image viewer apps you can install from there, both freeware and commercial.

I'm using a freeware viewer called QuickPic, but it's installed against future use. Right now I have few images on the device I have any need to view. And I'm not a pro photographer, so minor rescaling that changes dimensions and aspect ratio slightly isn't a concern, because I don't need to see the image exactly as in the original.

Just how badly distorted are your pictures viewed with the built in viewer? I assume since you're a professional photographer, that being able to view images on the tablet is in large part a marketing tool, to be able to show folks who might commission work what you do. Minor distortion might not be an issue in that case, because it would still effectively showcase your work. The potential customer wouldn't know it was slightly distorted.

You need to do some research and see what sort of image viewer apps are available for Android. I simply don't know enough about what's out there to make recommendations.

(Thinking about it, one option might be to assemble a representative sample of your work, and put it into a PDF file. I believe that would prevent distortion of the images. I use an open source PDF viewer called MuPDF, but Adobe's own PDF viewer for Android comes with the device.)
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