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Traecer Prime · 09-09-2004, 08:16 AM

I'm also a heavy user of iSilo/iSiloX (great for offline HTML reading!) and eReader (love the highlighting and note features).

I love WordSmith (by Blue Nomad) for reading and editing Word documents. WordSmith is a joy to use for large documents, and I love its FineType font technology. I just wish Blue Nomad would update it to support images and tables.

I've recently tried RepliGo (http://www.cerience.com/), and I'd have to say it is excellent, as well. It is mainly billed as a PDF reader, but its converter is set up as a printer in Windows, so you can convert any document you can print. It supports bookmarks, notes, and highlighting, plus it has a variety of display features, including excellent zooming capability, landscape support, virtual input area support on Palms, and a text-only mode. Plus, there are viewers available for Palm OS, Symbian, PocketPC, and Windows. RepliGo's only problems are that it only supports its own document format, and the converter isn't cheap; though the viewers are free, the converter is $29.95. If I had a lot of PDFs to view on my Palm, however, I'd probably go ahead and swallow that hefty price, for RepliGo is vastly superior to Adobe's own Reader for Palm OS.

I hate the Adobe Reader for Palm OS. It's a bloated, ancient mess that needs to be thrown away. This thing was a terrible pain when it was introduced; it was huge for a Palm app, and the old m68k-based Palms of the day couldn't run it well. It has never gotten any better, really. It still has no bookmarking, highlighting, or note capabilities. It has no real font capabilities, and its handling of images is kludgy ("tap and hold to see the full-size image"). And this is all when I can get it to work; the program remains largely incompatible with palmOne's Tungsten T3. On the T3, the app most often skips over sections of text on a page, there are screen refresh issues, and frequent crashes. Plus, the desktop converter is a miserable experience. It requires Adobe Reader 6.0 on the desktop now (which is its own bit of bloated mess), always complains about the PDFs in question not being "tagged PDFs" (I have yet to see one of those), and inexplicably makes the resulting PDB file bigger than the original, though large portions of the formatting information was supposedly removed. IMNSHO, the Adobe Reader for Palm OS is virtually useless. I hope the Adobe's Readers for PocketPC and Symbian are better.

09-09-2004, 08:16 AM	#24
Traecer Prime Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 27 Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Time and Space, the perfect escape Device: Sony PRS-T2	Multiple Reader User I'm also a heavy user of iSilo/iSiloX (great for offline HTML reading!) and eReader (love the highlighting and note features). I love WordSmith (by Blue Nomad) for reading and editing Word documents. WordSmith is a joy to use for large documents, and I love its FineType font technology. I just wish Blue Nomad would update it to support images and tables. I've recently tried RepliGo (http://www.cerience.com/), and I'd have to say it is excellent, as well. It is mainly billed as a PDF reader, but its converter is set up as a printer in Windows, so you can convert any document you can print. It supports bookmarks, notes, and highlighting, plus it has a variety of display features, including excellent zooming capability, landscape support, virtual input area support on Palms, and a text-only mode. Plus, there are viewers available for Palm OS, Symbian, PocketPC, and Windows. RepliGo's only problems are that it only supports its own document format, and the converter isn't cheap; though the viewers are free, the converter is $29.95. If I had a lot of PDFs to view on my Palm, however, I'd probably go ahead and swallow that hefty price, for RepliGo is vastly superior to Adobe's own Reader for Palm OS. I hate the Adobe Reader for Palm OS. It's a bloated, ancient mess that needs to be thrown away. This thing was a terrible pain when it was introduced; it was huge for a Palm app, and the old m68k-based Palms of the day couldn't run it well. It has never gotten any better, really. It still has no bookmarking, highlighting, or note capabilities. It has no real font capabilities, and its handling of images is kludgy ("tap and hold to see the full-size image"). And this is all when I can get it to work; the program remains largely incompatible with palmOne's Tungsten T3. On the T3, the app most often skips over sections of text on a page, there are screen refresh issues, and frequent crashes. Plus, the desktop converter is a miserable experience. It requires Adobe Reader 6.0 on the desktop now (which is its own bit of bloated mess), always complains about the PDFs in question not being "tagged PDFs" (I have yet to see one of those), and inexplicably makes the resulting PDB file bigger than the original, though large portions of the formatting information was supposedly removed. IMNSHO, the Adobe Reader for Palm OS is virtually useless. I hope the Adobe's Readers for PocketPC and Symbian are better.