Hello,
My phone is the HTC EVO Slide. My question is relating to whether or not there is an application that would give the phone the ability to save or convert word, text, excel documents into PDF documents. Something similar to the ability of the Cute PDF driver on the Microsoft Windows operating system? I have Quick Office Pro installed on my phone and it cannot do this. I am willing to pay for this functionality. Any input would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Peter
I'm also very interested in it.
Somebody who can help us?
+ 1on this.
I really need something like this, but Primo PDF kind of product as I often need to send a doc from my google docs to someone, if and PDF is the best way.
word to pdf
there's an app on adroid market called pdf converter. It takes documents in almost any format and converts it on a server in the internet to a PDF file. hope this helps.
Why isn't any good pdf reader out there for windows phone 7 devices.
There are very less no of apps regarding pdf reading.
What all apps for pdf did you find other than the adobe?
I think there are two more apps.........
1. PDF viewer(DotNetNuzzi)
2. Amazing free pocket.
But both are pretty dumb apss.
Is developing pdf viewer on wp7 that much hard.
Developing a PDF reader on *anything* is hard. It's a complicated format. Developing one on the phone is harder still, because you need to write it in .NET unless you get special permission from Microsoft. The official Adobe Reader app uses a native component (accessed via COM, much like many homebrew apps) to do the actual PDF rendering.
Is there some specific feature you need that the current PDF reader apps don't offer? I don't enjoy reading PDFs (on my phone or anywhere else) but I've found the Adobe Reader app to be sufficient for use on the phone.
GoodDayToDie said:
Developing a PDF reader on *anything* is hard. It's a complicated format. Developing one on the phone is harder still, because you need to write it in .NET unless you get special permission from Microsoft. The official Adobe Reader app uses a native component (accessed via COM, much like many homebrew apps) to do the actual PDF rendering.
Is there some specific feature you need that the current PDF reader apps don't offer? I don't enjoy reading PDFs (on my phone or anywhere else) but I've found the Adobe Reader app to be sufficient for use on the phone.
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Ok, but Adobe Reader on WP7 doesn't have important features like: searching, "go to page" and it's little slow!
djfoxer said:
Ok, but Adobe Reader on WP7 doesn't have important features like: searching, "go to page" and it's little slow!
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how about sending them a feedback or just a simple review telling them.
I feel the most important feature the PDF reader lacks is its inability to open "password protected files"
All card statements and mobile phone bills come with password via email and its really handy to open it in mobile instead of PC or lappy.
hi
I work fork a distribution center for hardware parts and have been task with making our excel price database avalible to my 70 year boss on his kindle fire.
my original plan was to use dropbox , sync up the work pc with his tablet and in his tablet make the the document avalible threw adobe reader or open office probably as a read only document (since he doesnt know much about excel)
but i found that he generally disliked the use of spreadsheets on the tablet and am wondering if theres a way to create a more user friendly database for his tablet.
any help will be great and am willing to root the device if needed
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but i found that he generally disliked the use of spreadsheets on the tablet and am wondering if theres a way to create a more user friendly database for his tablet.
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How about a html export from excel, so you have a simple webpage? Then there is no need to have spreadsheet files and so on. Depending on the size of the original spreadsheet it might get a bit big to scroll though.
Just wanted to write a review about a great app to give back to the developers. It's the best Microsoft Office viewer there is and it's free: Mobile Document Viewer. The interface is clean and it works very fast (except with very large files), and can even read documents to with a built-in text to speech engine. It's a MUST tool to always have installed on your phone because you never know when you are going to need it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.joergjahnke.documentviewer.android.free
Has anyone yet tried the following apps?
SoftMaker Office apps?
If it's anything as advanced as their legendary windows mobile edition, then it's worth 6 times the price
check out a review back in 2002 edition
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/software/textmaker-2002.htm
I would like to see if Android platform can hold a light to Windows yet, in terms of productivity.
Yeah, bought the complete Softmaker apps when the were available in the Play Store and still lovin' them like on my old Windows Mobile devices. :good:
I have them all as well. So far, I think they are the best of the Android Office replacement apps, but they are still pretty limited. They do not move you into "windows-level" productivity by any means. . . Perhaps one of their best features is that they allow you install and use all your TT fonts! Presentations works for mild editing of existing presentations and actually presents them reasonably well. . . but it is VERY limited for content creation.
Still, they are better than all the others I have tried (Quick Office, Smart Suite, Documents to Go, Kingsoft Office).
I use all three SoftMaker Office apps, too - no others have a comparable compatibility with Microsoft Office formats, no others are so feature-packed.
For all who are interested: I found that today only SoftMaker sells the complete package (íncluding word processor TextMaker Mobile, spreadsheet PlanMaker Mobile, and presentation program Presentations Mobile) €10 / US$ 10 cheaper, just have a look at the homepage, or Facebook profile for more information.
Office Suite is still #1 IMHO.
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@Jonathanpeyton:
I have used Office Suite Pro for a while, but I found the editing options to restricted, SoftMaker Office Mobile has so much more...
E.g. word processor: Office Suite Pro doesn't even display track changes correctly, but TextMaker Mobile gives you full functionality. You can see changes, record, accept/reject, and jump from one to the next, plus view, edit, and add comments. The process is very similar to how it works in Word, so anyone familiar with that program will have no problem in this app. Same with Comments, footnotes, endnotes,...
The presentation tool of Office Suite Pro doesn't even play all my slide transitions, and no sound, or animations, you can't place comments on your slides, you don't have a spell checker, and such... but Presentations Mobile plays it all and has it all.
Spreadsheet PlanMaker Mobile has more built-in functions than any other, masters syntax highlighting, and rotating text, supports 3d charts, and many other niceties Office Suite Pro doesn't offer.
You can buy a few dictionaries for Office Suite Pro, but get a lot more for free with SoftMaker Office Mobile; you can embed any TrueType, or OpenType fonts with it; and there are several more reasons for me finding SoftMaker Office Mobile way better than Office Suite Pro.
And one strength of it makes it invaluable for me: it's brilliant interoperability with Microsoft Office formats, because I can open any Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file faithfully with it, whilst all others that I've tested, including Office Suite Pro, had problems opening some documents (e.g. if those were password-protected, or had a large size), and opened others only with formatting losses.
If you don't know SoftMaker Office Mobile yet, you should download the free trial versions of TextMaker Mobile, PlanMaker Mobile, and Presenttaions Mobile from the Play Store, and compare them with Office Suite Pro.