Hi,
I have the Aldiko application for reading books. Since that software was just acquired by Adobe, it now includes a PDF reader. So far so good. I like that PDF reader...
However, I just installed the "Documents To Go" application and this thing took over the PDF MIME type, but since I did not install the full version, it wont let me view PDFs anymore.
So, my question is: How do I remap the PDF mime type back to Aldiko, but still keep "Documents To Go" for MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint stuff?
If it makes a difference, I am running CyanogenMod7 on a Mytouch 4G device.
Thx!
Have you tried opening a PDF file on its own and then redirecting it to Aldiko? Or have you tried uninstalling Documents to Go (or Aldiko) and seeing if it continues to happen?
Please understand, these are questions from a n00b who cruises the forums...
@pbarnum: I tried opening a PDF off the sdcard using a file manager, and it indeed asked me which of the two programs I wanted to use and if I wanted to set one as default. So I did, I selected Aldiko as the default. This almost worked: Aldiko is indeed the default now for the browser, touchdown and for the file manager. However, the email and gmail applications keep trying to open the "Documents To Go" app. I tried rebooting in case those applications had cached the MIME settings, but the issue remains.
Uninstalling "Documents to go" caused gmail to use some other app, but the email application just does not know how to open PDFs anymore...
Hmmm... doing some searches, it looks like there may not be anything one can do because this works through "Intents" and not via a statically (And user manageable) configured MIME type table.
r2d-two said:
@pbarnum: I tried opening a PDF off the sdcard using a file manager, and it indeed asked me which of the two programs I wanted to use and if I wanted to set one as default. So I did, I selected Aldiko as the default. This almost worked: Aldiko is indeed the default now for the browser, touchdown and for the file manager. However, the email and gmail applications keep trying to open the "Documents To Go" app. I tried rebooting in case those applications had cached the MIME settings, but the issue remains.
Uninstalling "Documents to go" caused gmail to use some other app, but the email application just does not know how to open PDFs anymore...
Hmmm... doing some searches, it looks like there may not be anything one can do because this works through "Intents" and not via a statically (And user manageable) configured MIME type table.
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Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, find Documents To Go and click on it, and there should be a button with something like "Clear Defaults" on it. After that you should be given the choice again (unless I misunderstood your question).
@martino2k6: Thanks, I did not know I could manage the defaults that way... However, that still does not solve the issue. Documents to Go does not show to have any defaults associated with it, yet it is used by default by certain applications.
The issue is: When "Documents to Go" is installed, it causes "gmail" and the standard "email" application to use the "Documents to Go" application to open PDFs. This happens even if Aldiko has been selected as the default application for PDF files. So, what is wrong with that? Well, the free version of "Documents to Go" is good in that it provides viewer support for MS Office documents, but it does NOT provide viewing support for PDF documents, and there are free viewers that do provide that capability.
I dont know why, but installing a second PDF viewer, in addition to Aldiko, solved the issue. The viewer I installed is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Now the adobe reader gets the PDFs and NOT Documents To Go.
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I just switched from an iPhone 4 to the Inspire and I would like to have everything synced all the time like MobileMe. I did the whole Gmail syncing and the contacts seem to work great and the mail however I can't get the "notes" folder in the mail app to show all the notes. Any help?
First search the marketplace for "google" there are alot of addons.
I know reader is there i use it. And groups, photos etc. can also all be reached by going to www.google.com/ig and logging in. I have found no real limitation with the stock browser and igoogle yet.
Hope that helps.
unless im thinking wrong here, android doesn't really include a notepad app like iOS does. there are a few different cloud solutions, but i believe it will involve you copy and pasting your memos into a new app. i like diigo.com combined with powernote on android.
good luck
Actually I'm referring to the folders in the mail itself. On my computer it shows the notes in the folder but once I view the folder on the phone it only shows one note.
As in windows desktop I have the option to choose a specific application to be associated with a file of my choice.
If the option to launch a program was available in the "complete action using" dialogue in android, that would be a very worth component.
I have often found myself missing this feature, and my current situation is calling for the option to open access HTML & text files from the file explorer rather than the ebook reader which requires too many steps to opening the ebook in the reader.
I have tried all the ebook readers on android and the most solid epub fb2 reader I have found is fbreader. Now supporting html & text files in v2 which is still in alpha mode but from my experience it is still the most solid reader you can get for android.
From the file explorer I can directly access epub & fb2 ebooks but HTML/text there is no way I can associate them with my reader of choice.
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Android works a little differently from Windows for file association
In Windows the user tells the OS "for this file extension, use this app" (the app/installer can create this association itself)
On Android, an app lists the file extensions it can open. The first time you try and open a file, the OS will check what the apps can open - if a single app has claimed that extension, it'll be used to open it. If multiple apps support it, you'll be given a choice popup, with a "use this as default" checkbox.
If that checkbox is ticked, then that app will be used automatically from then on, unless you either uninstall that app, or clear the default.
To clear defaults, find the app that gets opened in Settings->Applications->Manage Applications and tap on it - scroll down to the "Launch by default" section, and if the "Clear Defaults" button is enabled, you can click it to clear any default actions for that app (don't worry, it won't delete any other settings)
Then try opening your file again, and the popup should appear.
If this doesn't happen, then it's likely that either your app hasn't registered html as a supported type (you'll have to ask the dev to do that), or there's something special about html files which means they don't get handled the same way - potentially your app dev could use a different extension, and register that instead.
I like the MyLibrary's bookshelf UI and the capability to show the cover page, but the default pdf reader
is too slow to render scanned pdf.
It's pretty easy.
Install the PDF reader of your choice. Having more than one app that can handle PDFs, the 1st time you open one a popup will show letting you to choose which program to use. You can select which and do nothing (the popup will show everytime you open a file) or you can mark the default check, and Android with use the program everytime without asking.
Regards.
CalvinH said:
It's pretty easy.
Install the PDF reader of your choice. Having more than one app that can handle PDFs, the 1st time you open one a popup will show letting you to choose which program to use. You can select which and do nothing (the popup will show everytime you open a file) or you can mark the default check, and Android with use the program everytime without asking.
Regards.
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I never got that option to choose.
Probably, i launched the pdf reader from MyLibrary before I installed other
pdf reader.
Now, i went to the "Manage Application" to reset the "Launch by Default" setting of all the pdf reader i installed.
I also cleared all cache and data of MyLibrary.
Then I started MyLibrary to launch the pdf reader. I still didnt get the prompt to choose the reader.
However, when I used the File Manager to launch the pdf reader, I was prompted to choose the pdf reader.
Well, if you choose to launch it from MyLibrary, I think the app usually regards that as a decision to launch it with MyLibrary...
If changing default reader is not possible with MyLibrary,
is there any other similar bookshelf app that has similar UI as MyLibrary and allows changing default reader ?
Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
inmnbob said:
Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
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I think you should be able to do this with Polaris Office however it does not work very well. There are two other options, either you convert the document into a pdf and use a PDF annotator such as ezpdf or there is a new app called textmaker which allows you to mark up text like MS Word but the app is expensive although there is a free trial availableon their website at the following link:
http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofa_en.htm
inmnbob said:
Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
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My favorite app for Office files is OfficePro6.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...3lzdGVtcy5lZGl0b3Iub2ZmaWNlX3JlZ2lzdGVyZWQiXQ..
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Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
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Here are some notes I made on using Polaris for ink notations:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856691
I haven't found another office product that allows ink annotations either. I did install MobileNoter SE HD recently. Its an unofficial OneNote app for Android that has tons more functionality than the official OneNote app, including ink annotations that will be captured and synced back to OneNote on a PC. Here is a link to that, but FYI its $15 (but worth it if you are a heavy OneNoter).
http://www.mobilenoter.com/Home/Features_HD
JC
I think I remember some one mentioning sonnr scribble app. For annotations on office documents.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble
tonyz3 said:
I think I remember some one mentioning sonnr scribble app. For annotations on office documents.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble
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Nice. Thanks.
tonyz3 said:
I think I remember some one mentioning sonnr scribble app. For annotations on office documents.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble
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Thanks for the link. I checked it out. The functionality looks good, but the implementation for me is a deal-breaker. From the description of the app:
" The documents you want to annotate and share are securely stored in your Soonr Personal account in the cloud so you must be connected to the internet to access them."
So you have to store your docs on their cloud server to annotate and access them, and there is no off-line caching of those docs. Sounds like the functionality is just a gimmick to get people using their cloud services.
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Thanks for the link. I checked it out. The functionality looks good, but the implementation for me is a deal-breaker. From the description of the app:
" The documents you want to annotate and share are securely stored in your Soonr Personal account in the cloud so you must be connected to the internet to access them."
So you have to store your docs on their cloud server to annotate and access them, and there is no off-line caching of those docs. Sounds like the functionality is just a gimmick to get people using their cloud services.
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Not to be rude like our "VP"........ but you are in correct. You can offline cache either in office formats or the pdf(annotated format)
When you have a doc on your screen you can either back arrow to save it as annotated to the cloud account. or if while it is on the screen you can hit the upper rt corner menu and down load which will cache it. What i have noticed is the down load did not seem to work if you are just in the soonr menu and long press a file to download it that way without it on the screen open. For me it must be open on the screen and DL from upper rt menu to cache.
I DL'd this app this morning to try it so i have not played alot with it but this is what i know so far. Seems pretty good though.
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...while it is on the screen you can hit the upper rt corner menu and down load which will cache it...
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Many thanks for the further insights. If you do download/cache it, can you open it in the sonnr app without an active internet connection to truly work with it offline? Or is the downloaded version "read only," still requiring an active connection to their cloud to make further annotations on the cloud copy?
I love the idea of the app, except if I have to be tethered to their cloud to use it.
JC
jchammerpants said:
Many thanks for the further insights. If you do download/cache it, can you open it in the sonnr app without an active internet connection to truly work with it offline? Or is the downloaded version "read only," still requiring an active connection to their cloud to make further annotations on the cloud copy?
I love the idea of the app, except if I have to be tethered to their cloud to use it.
JC
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yes it will work in their app, let you work on it and when you are done place it in a pending upload state until you are back on wifi. than it will update in the cloud. Still trying to work out everything- will take another look at it over the weekend.
Lately I've been needing to open PDF files on my phone while traveling for work. However, when the PDF files are emailed to me, once I select the attachment from Gmail the PDF view opens but doesn't display anything. This also happens if I download the file tot he sd card and try to open them that way.
I've tried rebooting as well as wiping cache/dalvik and fixing permissions. Nothing works.
Any ideas?
What app are you opening them with?
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I think it's just trying to open the PDF for viewing directly in Gmail. When I open the Gmail app back up it is still on the blank PDF screen.
Install a program that can handle PDFs like Adobe Reader or ezPDF or something.
Adobe Reader solved the problem. Thanks!
Prior to trying Adobe Reader I made sure Google Drive was installed and functioning properly but no matter what I did the PDF's wouldn't open. I'm surprised Google Drive couldn't take care of this, forcing me to resort to using Adobe.
sn0warmy said:
Adobe Reader solved the problem. Thanks!
Prior to trying Adobe Reader I made sure Google Drive was installed and functioning properly but no matter what I did the PDF's wouldn't open. I'm surprised Google Drive couldn't take care of this, forcing me to resort to using Adobe.
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Google Drive only allows you to access files stored on Google Drive. Quickoffice (also by Google, and installed by default on the Nexus 5) will handle it as well. I recommend Adobe Reader only because I've had trouble with some more complex PDFs in Quickoffice.
Good to know. Thank you.