I spent lots of hours trying to find a reasonably good PDF reader for my Windows Mobile phone.
The Adobe PDF reader sucks because in order to read a PDF in a tiny screen you have to constantly scroll left and right for every freaking line!!!
Then I decided to use the Orneta reader and I made the mistake to buy it…
Orneta converts the PDF to a text file so you can read it much easier. You have the ability to change the font size and also select an auto-scroll speed.
For example you set a 30 lines per minute speed and the program scrolls the text for you (completely hand free).
That’s nice BUT it has many disadvantages.
There is only one display mode and it’s text only.
You can’t see the pictures unless you open the file with another program.
Furthermore you lose all the text structure.
There is no space between paragraphs.
Another bug is that a few words get lost at the end of each page and you must guess them!!!
Sometimes the program fails to convert a DF to text and you must manually delete the text file that it creates and reopen the PDF.
There’s more…
So I gave up on it and I tried to find a progran that retains the PDF format but reflows the text so that it can get into the tiny screen of my mobile phone.
The name of this program is Foxit Reader.
I downloaded an evaluation version and after 10 minutes I bought it.
It does everything a PDF reader for mobile phones must do:
- Light weight
- Amazingly fast
- View PDF files on mobile devices
- Reflow any PDFs for easy viewing
- Find text in a PDF file
- Support multiple language
- Easily customizable
- Low cost
