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I join the others in saying that VM's are your friend. Painless to set up and use.
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I just searched for "Android, PDF" here on Code Project, and the first ten or fifteen hits were not what I was trying to find.
I have a new phone. It's an Android.
I want to put a PDF reader on it.
It would be nice if the reader could also do straight ASCII Text.
Suggestions are welcome.
I have found from experience that waiting a day or two for opinions here on CodeProject tends to yield far better results than Google (or Bing, or whomever) provides.
Searching my own previous messages didn't give me anything in the first twenty hits, so, hopefully I'm not annoying the community with a topic that reappears too frequently (or worse, which I asked before and forgot).
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I use WPS office - it reads PDF, DOC / DOCX, and Excel files as well as text.
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I use an old version of the free Adobe PDF reader. IMHO, it's much snappier and renders better than the current version. If you like I can make it avaialble to you.
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For PDF files, I use Adobe Reader. For TXT files, I use ASTRO File Manager.
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For reading pdf books, I use Play Books. With its horizontal scrolling through pages, night mode and option to add bookmarks, I find it's just right for it.
A downside is that it takes quite a while (minutes) to add a pdf to it. So for things like plane/train tickets, receipts etc, I prefer using the Google Drive pdf viewer. This works for local files, in case the name Google Drive sounds suspicious.
modified 13-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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EBookDroid is the best one I've found as it's extremely fast even with image-heavy PDFs and you can configure it to hide as much of the UI as you like, up to all of it.
I can't tell you whether it does ASCII text but it does other formats such as ePub and RTF.
Xodo is also good if you want to open multiple PDFs in a tabbed interface, or annotate them.
Regards
Nelviticus
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Foxit mobile works well for me. A few other I tried didn't open some of the PDF's I had, but Foxit works good so far. I didn't compare much other than that.
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I like RepliGo Reader. Main feature I like is it maintains your position in the PDF when reopening. I'm typically reading several documents at a time. When reading a novel I like to start where I left off.
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Thank you to each and every one who has offered suggestions.
From reading here and one or two of the external sources, my initial choice was Xodo.
At this moment, I'm not totally okay with it, although it may work.
The three big things I want are...
- Text reformats and fits the screen when I zoom it
- Text reformats and fits the screen when I change the phone from vertical to horizontal
- Ability to scroll to the next page without special gestures (i.e., smoothly, like the PC can do)
Do any of the previously mentioned readers have the ability to do that, already built-in ?
Does Xodo have that ability ? So far, I haven't found the config thing to do that.
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A replacement in the manner of hosting, so files wont be handed over to other company but kept close to you...
I found two: LinShare and NextCloud (the later seems better to me)...
Any tips? Experience?
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No answer relative to your question. Looking at NextCloud, all I can say is that their website is a mess. 
Marc
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I've often wondered what it would take to make something usable from the FTP service most ISPs offer. Host the files SFTP, a server process runs on the server that indexes the files, and create the necessary Windows/Linux/Android/IOs processes to link to it and sync everything. I'm sure I've missed a lot, and it is probably a massive undertaking, but why does everything have to be in the cloud? Is there much demand for that type of approach, or does everyone insist that MS and others host their files? Or is it better to have bigger corps do it, because of the security that many smaller ISPs don't master?
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FTP isn't good enough...
The idea behind those file sharing systems (the better ones) is to synchronize only what really changed... Most of those systems does not store files on file system but in DB, that enables partial synchronization... also there is access right (I shared my files only with you and not all users)... there is also a goo deal of notifications... there is also the subject of concurrent changes and how to resolve (DropBox for instance creates versions at let resolve it manually by the parties)...
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ftp isn't but if you are looking to roll your own solution it would be worth taking a look at winscp[^]
it needs some configuration but appears to work reliably although I have only used it as a backup tool and have no experience with large numbers of files
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I have been using Sync for the last year and a half. Very good and MUCH cheaper than DropBox however you do still "hand over your files"...
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The payment not the main problem here, but the hand over part... So...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Encryption is your friend (unless you lose the key).
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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What features do you want? Are you looking for revision control, sharing across PCs and/or sites?
Assuming you want any of the above but don't want to host your files with a third party, considering installing Subversion (or any other revision control system). You can host it yourself and access can be available to whoever you want. Subversion is web-enabled so you can access it from anywhere.
If you're looking for a service that does it for you, I suspect you won't find one that hosts your files on your site.
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Hi Kornfeld,
I am trying out the free 1 year 75 gig offer from Zoolz: impressive software.
Details here: [^].
cheers, Bill
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That's still a hand over storage solution - that's the exact point I want to avoid... So I'm not looking for a service, but for a software...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Hi,
I'm curious about how you define "hand-over:" unless your storage medium is hardware owned, and managed, by you, what is not "hand-over" ?
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Exactly that - the storage is mine - at my place...
No service, but software...
Like LinShare and NextCloud, both are softwares I install on my box and get DropBox like functionality...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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