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hi,
I use microsoftwords to do my company letter head,
when i transfer the letter head to my XDA lli.
It dont look the same at all.
My company name font became other type.
anyone know i can get this done?
You need to copy the fonts used on your PC to your PPC. Even then you may find that the letterhead does not look anything like it does on the PC. PocketWord only supports a subset of the functionality of Word. Anything it doesn't deal with is stripped out when you copy the document across to the PPC.
If you need to use complex documents you probably need to look at something like SoftMakers TextMaker.
After trying all sorts of pdf readers, I come close to the conclusion that reading pdf documents on a PDA is not practical at all and even irrealistic.
Due mainly to the fact that one cannot view an entire page with a readable font size without having to scroll sideways.
I end up converting pdf to lit.
Please, give opinion and eventually solutions.
Thanks all, and take care
Come on folks, just a few words about your experience with pdf...
donno i read a book as pdf once
on my pda
only had to scroll down not sideways
depend on the doc in question really i suppose
pref lit though because of bookmarks and cleartype
and not being as much a res hog as acrobat reader which i used at the time
VGA a requirement
I use an older version of Adobe reader on a VGA screen. My eyes are still good enough that I can zoom out, get a full page on the screen, and still read it. I have read an entire book this way. I am sure there are better ways to do it on a PDA. But my goal is to be able to grab a document off of the web and read it as I travel. If there is going to be conversion between formats, it would have to take place on the PDA.
That being said, it is still easier to read a word or text document than a PDF. But if you have the screen resolution and size to work with, PDF's are not impossible.
Thanks folks, that was my impression.
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There are ways to improve PDF experiance. Using reflow when creating PDFs (available as an option when saving PDFs from OpenOffice, for example) greatly improves things.
Anothr good option is Repligo - you can print / convert PDFs to that format. It uses less space, documents open faster and look better (less jagged fonts).
Believe me, PDFs are annoying even in actual, desktop environments. >_>
That said, I'm using Foxit for the PPC. It loads 15MB++ files faster than Adobe, follows the original PDF format faithfully (doesn't try to rearrange like idiotic Clearvue), yet it is a standalone program that requires no installation.
That said, PDF reading is only for devices with a big screen. Definitely bigger than a Mini, let alone an Atom. Otherwise, at a big enough text to be legible, scrolling to the side is necessary - and that tends to lag a bit with bigger PDFs for devices with only 64MB of RAM or less.
I have train skeds and the Tokyo Metro Map plus a crap load more pdf files
that I use on my X01HT and yes you do have to scroll both ways but I mean
have you seen the detail of the Tokyo Metro Map?!?
It works for me. I actually like it.
Plus I get 'really cool' nods from Japanese when they see me looking
through the Tokyo Metro map on my X01HT because most of them
use the low tech pocket paper fold out.
Yes, I am a gaijin otaku and proud of it!!!
imexp then big pictures makes pdf useless on pda's as they can move the text to scale but in there is a picture in the middle they cant really handle scaling the picture down to match the width of the pda screen
I think converting to repligo is the most elegant solution since images are conserved...but it is not free
Otherwise, if pics are not important, converting to text then to lit and using microsoft reader is an acceptable free solution.
To "AquiEsta!": why don't you use the excellent "metro" freeware?
You can use the free xpdf (pocketpdf). It at least has better zoom functions then adobe and it has the option to read pdf as text files with associated functions. You lose pictures but pure textfiles are a breaze to read...
elio said:
I think converting to repligo is the most elegant solution since images are conserved...but it is not free
Otherwise, if pics are not important, converting to text then to lit and using microsoft reader is an acceptable free solution.
To "AquiEsta!": why don't you use the excellent "metro" freeware?
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I didn't know such a thing existed. Where would I find that? In English
would be great too!
Thanks
AquiEsta! said:
I didn't know such a thing existed. Where would I find that? In English
would be great too!
Thanks
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http://nanika.net/Metro/
You will love it
elio said:
http://nanika.net/Metro/
You will love it
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"more than 350 cities covered now"... I'm already in love with it because
I travel a lot and this hopefully will save me time and advils.
THANK YOU!!!
off I go to set it up...
Adobe Reader for PPC 2 works with my HTC Athena/Advantage VGA screen without legibility problems using its reflow function which wraps the text to your screen - no sideways scrolling needed.
Even if your documents were not prepared specifically for this Active Sync will do the necessary conversion when you transfer the docs from your PC (turn it on in file settings). If you bypass ActiveSync your reflow button gets greyed out.
For documents like maps you can switch to sideways scrolling whenever you want.
My only gripe is that the characters are a little fuzzy, so I'm looking for a fix for this.
UPDATE: fuzzy characters fixed:
Switch resolution to 95 dpi using RealVGA before opening Adobe Reader. Now works as it was meant to. Only downside is the the resolution switch involves a reset.
For reading articles and such offline I use ScrapBook (a Firefox extension) to capture the page/selection and delete ads/sidebars and then 'Save Page as...' and copy the html and corresponding images folder to my SD card. It's a pain but it's the best solution that I could find.
I use Mobipocket Reader to do the conversion and reading, it's free and works well for me www.mobipocket.com
For PDFs Picel Browser, and Foxit Reader for Windows Mobile are pretty good.
I second the picsel reader. http://www.picselpowered.com
Don't let the number of Cons over Pros put you off.
Even with these problems I still use it on a daily basis, and preferred to buy it over using free alternatives like Adobe.
Proof that mobile apps don't have to look like clunky old windows apps.
Pro
Excellent rendering of PDF files
Fine control over zoom, can use a gesture (tap & drag)
Cons
Out of memory errors with just a few other apps running
Remembers last document opened, but not page
No Search
No way of jumping to a page
pdemoore said:
I second the picsel reader. http://www.picselpowered.com
Don't let the number of Cons over Pros put you off.
Even with these problems I still use it on a daily basis, and preferred to buy it over using free alternatives like Adobe.
Proof that mobile apps don't have to look like clunky old windows apps.
Pro
Excellent rendering of PDF files
Fine control over zoom, can use a gesture (tap & drag)
Cons
Out of memory errors with just a few other apps running
Remembers last document opened, but not page
No Search
No way of jumping to a page
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I back this as well, it is bar far, THEE most impressive on a PDA.
It has no rendering lag, making it the fastest PDF reader on WM.
I would only recommend that VGA users view PDFs, QVGA isn't practical.
I'm using an Orbit2(Touch Cruise), but my question relates to any pocketPC powered device.
Does anyone know of some pocketPC software that allows precise control over photo resizing ? Preferably free (failing that nag-ware). Ideally it would also allowing cropping, control over compression settings, contrast, and USM (but I know that I'm dreaming on this last point!)
I've been searching for several days, but most of the links relate to desktop software which resize down to PDA dimensions. This is not what I want - I already have plenty of software for PC's which does this.
What I want to be able to do is take a photo on the phone (3.2 MP), and then resize by an arbitrary factor
I realise that the built in picture editor allows "resizing" down to 640 by 480, but this is too small, and only applies when you're emailing and does not affect the original. It also over compresses.
The reason for my question is that the orbit 2 camera is pretty noisy, but when scaled down to about 50% using Gimp or Photoshop on the PC actually gives quite a nice image suitable for beaming / emailing.
Thanks,
Roy.
Here are the ones I tried and rejected today:
photoresize (free)
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failed - converted 21 imgaes out of 31 then fell over with a memory error.
for those it did convert, all of the portrait ones were squished (lost the aspect ratio) irrespective of whether "keep aspect ratio" was checked or not.
promising (good selection of sizes, and selectable compression), but poor implementation
but could use in a pinch by creating a directory with just one or two images, and forcing their rotation to be "correct" prior to conversion
PocketPicture (free)
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seems to be a ms-paint clone.
fell over when I tried to open a large (3.1mp) image
SpbImageer ($15)
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I didn't like the install process -
it wanted to act as an activesync filter, so abandoned install.
Try XnView Pocket. Unlike the name would let you believe, it is more than a viewer; it edits and resizes pictures and is free. http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
Here are the ones I tried and rejected today:
photoresize (free)
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failed - converted 21 imgaes out of 31 then fell over with a memory error.
for those it did convert, all of the portrait ones were squished (lost the aspect ratio) irrespective of whether "keep aspect ratio" was checked or not.
promising (good selection of sizes, and selectable compression), but poor implementation
but could use in a pinch by creating a directory with just one or two images, and forcing their rotation to be "correct" prior to conversion
PocketPicture (free)
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seems to be a ms-paint clone.
fell over when I tried to open a large (3.1mp) image
SpbImageer ($15)
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I didn't like the install process -
it wanted to act as an activesync filter, so abandoned install.
Read my pic viewer / editor bible
wovens said:
Try XnView Pocket. Unlike the name would let you believe, it is more than a viewer; it edits and resizes pictures and is free. http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
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Thanks, tried this and it does most of what I want, and the interface was good too.
Menneisyys said:
Read my pic viewer / editor bible
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Thanks, took me a while to find it, but your review at
http://www.winmobiletech.com/PICVIEWERS/
was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.
I note you rate xnview highly (version 1.3 in 2005)
it's now at version 1.4, and doesn't seem to have the 8MP image size restriction any more - not that I've tested that.
r_southampton said:
Thanks, took me a while to find it, but your review at
http://www.winmobiletech.com/PICVIEWERS/
was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.
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Great you've found it - sorry for my not posting the URL last time, I've sposted my message from my BlackBerry; then, it's very hard to post URL's.
Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to view tif files?
My efaxes come over via tif format and while I can read all my pdf and doc files that I get emailed for work, I still cant view my efaxes. I have done a search but it appears that all the image viewing programs support: bmp, jpg, gif, png but that is about it.
TIA
jakejm79 said:
Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to view tif files?
My efaxes come over via tif format and while I can read all my pdf and doc files that I get emailed for work, I still cant view my efaxes. I have done a search but it appears that all the image viewing programs support: bmp, jpg, gif, png but that is about it.
TIA
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read somewhere beamreader from the market can read tifs
I read that too, but it appears that that feature was in a pre release version, current version (or at least the free trial, and I'm not about to drop $4 till I know for sure) only seems to support pdf files, if I browse to folder with a tif in there it doesn't show it, and when clicking on a tif file in a file explorer there is no option to open it with beamreader. I head that the 3D gallery and astro image viewer work but they only allow viewing of the 1st page, but in my tests it would just show a black screen, either way not very useful.
From what I've read, as I am in the same boat, there is no native / built-in ability at the android system level to interpret / display .tif format files.
I actually wrote a filter in gmail that forwards my faxes to my home email server, where, upon receipt, a .procmail script launches, uses imagemagick to convert the .tif to .jpg, and then sends the attachment back to myself, just so I can view the fax from my phone.
I had thought about doing the same thing, so I would probably just use a pdf printer to convert it, since I believe a single pdf file would be better able to handle multiple pages rather than having multiple jpg files.
Actually in a pinch I did discover this: http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/
Coupled with Opera Mini takes about 2 mins to get a pdf of the file emailed to my phone.
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I had thought about doing the same thing, so I would probably just use a pdf printer to convert it, since I believe a single pdf file would be better able to handle multiple pages rather than having multiple jpg files.
Actually in a pinch I did discover this: http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/
Coupled with Opera Mini takes about 2 mins to get a pdf of the file emailed to my phone.
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That's the beauty of ImageMagick, between that and ffmpeg, there's not much you can't convert.
My needs were slightly different, but I'd be remiss if I didn't reply and say that with the simple addition of 'GhostScript' installed on the same machine, ImageMagick will auto-convert a multi-page tiff to a multi-page PDF, no questions asked.
resco photo manager and pocket xnviewer can read tif.
And the Resco photo manager works so smooth,but it can not bookmark a tag layer,so if you next time read the tif file ,it begins from tag 1. And does not have a go to function. If some one can solve these problem I'd rather chose to spend some time converting pdf files to tif files.
Sorry,I did not notice the question is about android phone.But some one geek can help me?
The data can be sent as a simple byte stream.
I want to capture a PC screen and send it to WP7, I must convert it in server side and reconvert it in client side (I don't know how do that).
The code that I developed to capture the PC screen give me a bmp image extension, and the WP7 can't read that file.
How do I serialize media objects (pictures) for socket transfer??
I want to be able to send pictures files from Pc to WP7 via WiFi using socket.
How can I convert the picture file to what the file extension stream and send it?
I am confused how to do that
juste_3al_faza said:
The data can be sent as a simple byte stream.
I want to capture a PC screen and send it to WP7, I must convert it in server side and reconvert it in client side (I don't know how do that).
The code that I developed to capture the PC screen give me a bmp image extension, and the WP7 can't read that file.
How do I serialize media objects (pictures) for socket transfer??
I want to be able to send pictures files from Pc to WP7 via WiFi using socket.
How can I convert the picture file to what the file extension stream and send it?
I am confused how to do that
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I think I need to know a little more about what you are trying to do.
I am assuming a program is running on the PC. You want to capture an image of the program. Then send it to the phone through WiFi.
For it to be readable on the phone, bmp will not work. Convert it to jpg. Plenty of free algorithms and libraries can be can be found to do this.
To transfer it to the phone, I would suggest using a webserver or hosting one on the same machine. Possibly Apache, since it is free, but i am more familier with IIS.
Have your app on the pc do a post to page on localhost. Have it pass something on the querystring to identify the phone it is for. This page will store the image in a location on your computer that the webserver has access to.
Now your phone will need an app that will also hit that same ip address, not local host. You will need to know the ip address of the machine. Have it hit a different page and pass that phone identifier. The page will do a redirect to the jpg file. As you recieve the output, write it to to a file on the phone. Using Redirect should automatically send the name and mimetype with the response.
There are other more complicated ways to stream an image, but this is the simplest.
You could always have the webserver be on a different machine entirely, which would make it more generic. Yiou could even have it be hosted so it is accessible from the internet, not just the intranet.
Usign a webserver seems vastly over-complicated to me, but OK. Maybe I'm just more comfortable writing netwrok code than most people...
Take your screenshot (I assume you already managed this). Put it in a format the phone likes (JPEG is good; there might even be BMP-to-JPEG conversion code in the .NET library). Connect the phone and the PC.
This is where the network code comes in. I would personally do this by starting a TCP server socket on the PC on some arbitrary high port, more than 1024 and less than 65000. Have it "Listen()" for a request from the phone. Write a phone app that opens a TCP connection to the PC on that port. Once the phone connects, set it waiting to Receive() data. On the PC side, since some signal that you're going to transfer a file (a realllllly simple protocol would be to just send the file size, as an int, first). There are a few ways to send data on a TCP socket; you can use the Send() function which takes an array (type byte[], which could be populated by using another array and then converting), or a NetworkStream, which is just like any other member of System.IO.Stream (I'm assuming you're writing both ends in .NET, although really simple netcode is actually easier in C). To transfer the file itself, just open it and read it however you like, and send the byte array over the socket. On the phone end, create a new IsolatedStorage file, and write the data coming over the socket into it. Just read in a loop until you've read up to the size that the server told you was coming, or until you hit the end of the stream / the connection closes (which indicates a bug or a problem on the other end).
That's a dead-simple and not very robust network protocol, but it does have the advantage of being trivial to code up...
Or, if that all sounds too confusing, you can try using HTTP. I actually find that to be *more* painful, but YMMV; I cut my first netcode in C and to me HTTP feels needlessly complex by comparison (because it's meant to do so many more things than just transfer a simple byte stream like a file). If you want to look at the source code of an app that uses HTTP to send and receive files, including both the phone app and the PC server app, take a look at WP7 Advanced Explorer (it's on Codeplex). Ignore the parts about filesystem and registry for now, and just look at the network part.
To me the web server approach may seem to be the easiest solution because I have been doing dot net web programming since before dot net 1.1 came out (beta 1.0). Before that I was doing other web development using classic asp, xml, xsl, and javascript. So, I have been working with IIS for well over a decade.
Quite recently, I just worked on dot net code to stream documents and video that is not directly accessible through any virtual directory, without doing a redirect for the purpose of enforcing additional security.
Different types of programmers find different things easier. I have done little to no direct sockets programming since college, so that to me would be more difficult, even if it is actually easier.
It didn't even occur to me to try listening on a port.
Also, now that you mention it, there are ways built into dot net to convert image types. I actually use them in some of the programs I've written for Windows Mobile, such as the FB pic to Outlook Pic application. I might be converting the other way in that app though.
I don't think I do that with web service
I prefer to use the Socket.
My apps let me just view the PC screen
juste_3al_faza said:
The data can be sent as a simple byte stream.
I want to capture a PC screen and send it to WP7, I must convert it in server side and reconvert it in client side (I don't know how do that).
The code that I developed to capture the PC screen give me a bmp image extension, and the WP7 can't read that file.
How do I serialize media objects (pictures) for socket transfer??
I want to be able to send pictures files from Pc to WP7 via WiFi using socket.
How can I convert the picture file to what the file extension stream and send it?
I am confused how to do that
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With the zune.