From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 5914 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2023 16:02:56 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 20 Jun 2023 16:02:56 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8B040BA8; Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:02:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from neener.bl.org (neener.bl.org [50.116.26.109]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8344402E8 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:02:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: from neener.bl.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neener.bl.org (8.16.1/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 35KG2Y2b002748 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:02:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (mparson@localhost) by neener.bl.org (8.16.1/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id 35KG2XVC010254 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:02:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: neener.bl.org: mparson owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:02:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Parson To: coff@tuhs.org In-Reply-To: <20230304101533.D9CCF2021A@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: <36b395af-caa2-f685-cc54-5f193cd8b1e2@bl.org> References: <8d1de5c8-1f34-3d37-395d-0f1da7b062ec@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20230303105928.E88AB215AA@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <20230303134215.3ED63215AA@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <21e8477c-c388-7b90-ed10-21c7f76f0892@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20230304101533.D9CCF2021A@orac.inputplus.co.uk> X-Marks-The-Spot: --->X MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID-Hash: CJFK64FDKWUM4OOF3I5LVKOT33MGAPL5 X-Message-ID-Hash: CJFK64FDKWUM4OOF3I5LVKOT33MGAPL5 X-MailFrom: mparson@bl.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: Reading PDFs on a mobile. (Was: Requesting thoughts on extended regular expressions in grep.) List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 04:15:33 > From: Ralph Corderoy > To: coff@tuhs.org > Subject: [COFF] Reading PDFs on a mobile. (Was: Requesting thoughts on > extended regular expressions in grep.) > > Hi, > > Grant wrote: >> Even inventorying and keeping track of the books can be time >> consuming. -- Thankfully I took some time to do exactly that and have >> access to that information on the super computer in my pocket. > > I seek recommendations for an Android app to comfortably read PDFs on > a mobile phone's screen. They were intended to be printed as a book. > In particular, once I've zoomed and panned to get the interesting part > of a page as large as possible, swiping between pages should persist > that view. An extra point for allowing odd and even pages to use > different panning. Sorry for responding to an old thread got behind on my list-mail reading, but I wanted to share my $.02. Someone else mentioned an e-book reader app, and I second that, mostly...Moon+ Reader on Android is the e-book reader I've been using for a while and it does a good job with standard e-book formats as well as PDF files, IF the PDF is a PDF of formatted text. It even has a mode where it will do a pretty decent job of on-the-fly converting/reformatting the text of the PDF to something that can actually be read on a small (phone) screen. However, if the PDF is just a bunch of 1 image per page wrapped in a PDF container, you're out of luck and back to zoom/pan around the page. For most of my digtal book reading these days, I use a Boox e-ink reader. It runs Android, so, I can use the same e-book reader I used on my phone. It can even sync where you're at in the book/document via dropbox and you can move between multiple devices if needed. If I want to mark-up the PDF, the built-in stuff on the Boox handles that nicely. If I'm on my phone, I use an app called Xodo. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX