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[Q] How do I change application mapped to a particular MIME TYPE?

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.

Can the default pdf reader of MyLibrary be changed to other pdf reader?

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 ?

Printing to wifi printer

So I finally got printing all worked out on my captivate. I have a wireless printer and really want to leave the laptop on the desk and use my phone for everything. The one major problem has been printing. Finally, here's an answer...
To Print from your Captivate, it will cost you about $4.50 (or limit yourself to 3 docs a month.)
General Printing - test this first
Get PrintBot from the market (free version to test out - supposed to cover 2700 wireless printers)
Open it and setup your printer. My settings are...
Network Connection : Protocol - Auto Printer - choose your own
Printer : Re-select your printer
And print a test page. If this works, you are in business
Printing an Excel or Word Document:
Printbot is great for pictures and pdfs, but it doesn't print office docs, so those that your coworker emailed you just sit there So here's the great workaround.
First make sure you install these two programs:
From the market, find and install google documents, open it and sign in. Make sure you can use this on your cappy.
From the market, find "My Docs - Google Docs" (by RCS, LLC), install it and sign in.
Now you are about ready! Don't give up hope to soon!
You must upload your file to Google Docs, but for some odd reason it doesn't allow you to upload xls into it (unless I'm and idiot and can't find the upload button). But "My Docs" allows this. So open up My docs, click upload, and choose your file. It will be uploaded to your google docs account. You can close mydocs, it has served it's purpose.
Open your google documents (called "Docs" in the app drawer), find the file you uploaded (don't need to open it), from the arrow on the right side - open the pull down menu and click "SEND", choose "PrintBot" from the menu and your doc should start to print. Whew! Lots of steps, but it's done and printed. Caution! Watchout for multipage excel files, it will print each and every worksheet.
And Finally Printing Email from Gmail:
For some crazy reason, none of these programs interface easily. So you are in your gmail app and want to print off your free redbox rental code or some password you keep forgetting. Leave the email alone and open up your browser (yep, back to the www).
Go to the online version of mobile gmail. Sign in and open the email you want to print (I set up a shortcut on my homescreen). On the right side of the email, open the pulldown menu (double down arrows) and click "Print". This will open up google cloud print. You should have an option to "save to google docs" where it converts your email to a pdf and stores it in google docs. Then click "PRINT", it will create a pdf document of your email. you can close the www, or just surf around for a while...
Now back to google documents on you phone, find the pdf, click the menu on the right, click send and send it to Printbot. It will print your pdf.
And that's the whole 99 steps to printing documents with your captivate. OO) Actually it works pretty quick as long as you use your home wifi. I tested it with excel, word, and gmail files.
Good luck - Will

Or, check out Cypria Free from the market.

thanks
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mrhaley30705 said:
Or, check out Cypria Free from the market.
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That would work for photos, but I wanted emails, excel, word too. Plus Cypria is epson printers. But I'm sure it works great for most uses.

Sorry about the epson part. Wasn't thinking about everyone else.
Try Printer Share from the market. Works for more printers and prints almost everything.

mrhaley30705 said:
Try Printer Share from the market. Works for more printers and prints almost everything.
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That looks like it would work better, and has the with the ability to choose which pages to print. A bit more expensive, but probably worth it of you printed a fair number of pages.

It was free in Amazon app market a while back. Maybe the will do it again.
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MarkUp Word doc

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..

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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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.

jchammerpants said:
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.

tonyz3 said:
...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.

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