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Although there are several PDF viewer app choices available for Android, most users will use the PDF viewer that comes standard with their particular flavor of Android. For HTC branded handsets, that app is called PDF Viewer. There are several other choices available including one from the creator of the Portable Document Format (”PDF”) file format - Adobe, and one from one of the most popular document viewing and editing app makers - DataViz, maker of the Documents To Go application suite. Motorola packages QuickOffice standard with the Droid and possibly other Android handsets. This week, I put these PDF viewer apps to work, using the same PDF for control purposes, to see which one reigns supreme.
PDF Viewer is the PDF reader app that comes stock on HTC’s Android devices. It’s included with my HTC Droid Eris, which is a SenseUI device, and I checked with DroidDog.com’s Carlos Graves (@carlosgraves) to verify that PDF Viewer was installed on his Nexus One, a vanilla Android device also made by HTC. HTC’s PDF Viewer is based on Adobe Reader LE 2.5. When a PDF document is opened with HTC’s PDF Viewer, the opening view is zoomed into the upper left-hand corner of the first page of the document. Scrolling slowly was relatively smooth, but became choppy when attempting to scroll kinetically. Pinch-to-zoom works almost as well in PDF Viewer as it does in any other app on the device, which is to say it’s relatively smooth. Options available by pressing the “Menu” button include the ability to open PDF’s stored on the device, the option to toggle the toolbar on and off, a couple of pre-defined zoom options, the option to go directly to any page within the document, the option to search for any word or character within the document, and my personal favorite, the option to change the view from “Normal” to “Reformatted”. This last option allows a user to reformat a document into a narrow, single column, which could be a big time saver depending upon the content of the PDF being viewed.
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