Best Doc reader

[RogerMoore]

I'm wondering if a few people who have experience with more than one doc reader could chime in on their opinion of which is the best document reader and WHY?

Thanks

[The Mad Dog]

Acrobat reader for Palm devices.
Why? You will find tons of.pdf files in Web. And PDF files are THE documet files on PC!

[yorrick]

What do you mean by "doc reader"?
Is it a word document format, palm pdb text format or what? The question is a bit vague.

If you are after a word document reader - there are a couple to choose from - such as "documents to go"

If it is a text reader - then palmreader or tealdoc does a good job. A free text reader is "tibr".


There are enough readers around that it boils down to personal preferences and features.

[winexprt]

007...I'm betting by 'doc reader' you mean ebooks? Well if you did I would highly recommend Palm Reader or TiBR, two of the best readers out there. If you meant docs like PDF format, then I would suggest avoiding Acrobat reader like the plague. PicselViewer (which came with my NX80) handles pdf's just fine.

[souslaterre]

Newbies question :
Why does everybody only speak of a "reader", instead of an editor - I mean, doesn't everyone also want to modify docs ??

[minaw]

Wordsmith is a good editor/reader. As a document reader, there are so many. Only one works for me, AportisDoc, as that's the only one that lets you define a virtual screen width so lines don't wrap. For some documents, wrapping it a problem.

[wellsjs]

eBook reader: PalmReader (free version) - Landscape mode on NX series is wonderful.

Docs (Word/Excel/etc.): DocsToGo

There! Answered it both ways! :D

[ClieRAT]

Originally posted by The Mad Dog
Acrobat reader for Palm devices.
Why? You will find tons of.pdf files in Web. And PDF files are THE documet files on PC!

sorry for the offtopic, but i have to ask...
is there any way you can save the pdf files to the MS? because when i run a 11 mb PDF file through the adobe acrobat on pc, that converts it for pda, hotsync it, it will use 5 MB of handheld space which i only got 11 mb off. So is there any option to put the pdf on the MS of CF?

thanks in advance, and mods delete this if this ain't right here


ontopic:

furthermore i use docs to go, this program is so sweet like everyone says...

[pmb]

i find that picsel and repligo are amazing at viewing documents with pictures included

picsel viewer came built in to my nx73 so i dont know if it can be downloaded...but it's a whole lot better than documents2go when it comes to viewing powerpoint slides

repligo even comes with an IE plug in that will convert the page and line them up in your hotsync queue ...this is a really cool feature cuz i dont have a wifi card and i read alot of reviews and crap from the internet...so when im in a rush i just put it on my clie for later viewing

[RogerMoore]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by minaw
[B]Wordsmith is a good editor/reader.

You know I should have asked about a Document Editor.

Because I do edit my word documents.

Currently I'm using Documents To Go. My only complaint is that I can't seem to get Word To Go and Sheets to Go to get out of internal memory after I exit the program without manually using Zlauncher to move them each time.

Can someone tell me why?
Can someone recommend a better document editor and tell me why. Thanks for the help....

[breakfastchef]

TiBr is the best of the free doc readers. Excellent features like font choices and scrolling functions and customiable top and bottom bar tools.

[darklight]

:confused:

Uhm guys... Could you help me with TiBr please?

I always encounter a memory reset error after reading an e-book and returning to "home" (standard clie launcher), which asks me to do a soft reset.

I thought this was just a problem of v1.47 but I tried v1.48 yesterday and I still have the same problem. There has been some "improvement" though. In v1.47, after getting the memory reset error, TiBr doesn't work anymore. But with v1.48, even if I encounter the error, TiBr still functions normally (that is, until I finish reading and click on the home button).

Has anyone else encountered this kind of problem?
I have also tried installing it on MS instead of in my handheld but no changes.
I have a Japanese TH55. Does the OS matter?

Is there some setting that I should change?

Thanks.

[jmg_NX21]

sorry for the offtopic, but i have to ask...
is there any way you can save the pdf files to the MS? because when i run a 11 mb PDF file through the adobe acrobat on pc, that converts it for pda, hotsync it, it will use 5 MB of handheld space which i only got 11 mb off. So is there any option to put the pdf on the MS of CF?


NO one has helped you yet?
Simple really: Go to PREFERENCES and look about 3/4 down the window and you will see HOTSYNC: Transfer the files to and select MEMORY STICK.

hth

[pruss]

And PDF files are THE documet files on PC!

I thought that was html or txt. :-) Most free ebooks are in txt or html format, for instance. Most websites are based on html.

Alex

[Edlin]

I use TiBR for ebooks
Plucker for feeds and websites news
Repligo for PDFS and just about anything else I want to use.
Wordsmith just recently and its growing on me...

I have piscel viewer on rom and hates it.

[dtxx]

Acrobat reader for Palm devices.
Why? You will find tons of.pdf files in Web. And PDF files are THE documet files on PC!

I hate such Acrobat Reader in PDA :mad: It is extremely slow to open a PDF and every scroll.

If I want to read PDF, I will firstly convert it to PDB and read it with ISILO. :)

[dtxx]

I'm wondering if a few people who have experience with more than one doc reader could chime in on their opinion of which is the best document reader and WHY?

Thanks

I have few editors/readers ....
- ISILO: commonly used, as it supports both PDB and HTML
- TealDoc: commonly used too, excellent interface
- DocToGo: for MS Word & Excel
- Repligo: for MS powerpoint

:p

[josephgreco]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned TomeRaider. It's basically* free and works like a charm. For instance, I have a .doc of Infinite Jest (which is a rather huge book) and picselviewer freezes up (NX80, did it on TH55 too), whereas TR handles it with no problem (tho i had to save it as a textfile and manually enter chapter breaks). +Autoscroll and all the other requisite bells and whistles, plus the software somehow compresses files so they are smaller than their .txt equivalents (not really sure how it's possible, but ok). By almost half. I just checked and I have one .txt file that is 1.2 MB, the .tr file is 676k.

[pruss]

I use Plucker extensively because it does almost everything I want. (Not coincidentally, since I'm on the dev team.) I have about 200mb of Plucker-format etexts on my NX. I use large hypertext ebook databases, commercial and free, as well as smaller books.

It's pretty easy to find on the web what I want in HTML format, and this way I get formatting. (Not essential for fiction, but nice to have at least italics and hyperlinking--e.g., for footnotes--for nonfiction.)

Plucker lets me search large amounts of text quickly. Not as quickly as Tome Raider, but I just didn't like TR when I last tried it (it didn't have HiRes+ support then, etc.), but still pretty quickly. I can search through a 4.5mb compressed etext (probably about 10+ mb of HTML) in 49 seconds (30 seconds with Lightspeed or when in RAM) on my NX70. The search is more sophisticated than most readers (multiple words in paragraph, transliteration for accents).

I like having nicely kerned antialiased fonts, real italics, landscape mode, dictionary lookup (via BDicty or KDic DA or RoadLingua--the RL dictionary viewer works for free with Plucker), reasonably fast reformatting when changing fonts, annotation abilities (only in 1.9, and not yet complete, alas), fully customizable keyboard interface (e.g., I can set it up so 'b' adds a bookmark, etc.--these things make it very nice to use.) Oh, and justification really improves the appearance of text. (Maybe even readability?)

And if I want anything it doesn't have, I usually just program it. :-)