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Nancy
September 1st, 2008, 11:55 PM
Do you like Foxit Reader for Windows Mobile? If yes, then we can work together to get Foxit Reader preinstalled on your device.
If you like Foxit Reader, you can contact the device manufacturer to explain why you like Foxit Reader and express how cool it would be if they could preinstall Foxit Reader on their devices.
Foxit thanks you for all of your help. We wish that Foxit Reader could be preinstalled on many devices so more and more users could enjoy using it for free. :1_18:

mustela7
November 11th, 2008, 06:14 AM
Do you like Foxit Reader for Windows Mobile? If yes, then we can work together to get Foxit Reader preinstalled on your device.
If you like Foxit Reader, you can contact the device manufacturer to explain why you like Foxit Reader and express how cool it would be if they could preinstall Foxit Reader on their devices.
Foxit thanks you for all of your help. We wish that Foxit Reader could be preinstalled on many devices so more and more users could enjoy using it for free. :1_18:

I'll promise to do so ... as soon as there is a finger-friendly version of this program!
I'd suggest instead of the actual toolbar, to have a left "menu" softkey (somewhat like now), and a right "tools" softkey, which will open a big fingerfriendly overlay toolbar. Or just a bigger toolbar which opens with an upwards finger sweep?

ByEGT
November 28th, 2008, 04:46 AM
Is Foxit Reader for Sony Ericsson (Java)?

Nancy
December 1st, 2008, 12:37 AM
Hello Mustela7,
Thanks for you advice. I will forward this to our develop team.
Nancy

leeand00
December 30th, 2008, 12:29 PM
I like it fine, (when it works!)

It seems that often the program cannot start and I have to re-install it. (I'm a registered user)

I wonder what the problem is? Does it have something to do with the amount of memory that I need to have free?

Thank you,
Andrew J. Leer

leeand00
December 30th, 2008, 12:34 PM
Actually, I just figured out that if the program crashes I need to eject the SD card and start the program, then later I need to insert the SD card and open my file.

That fixed the problem.

techknowl
February 10th, 2009, 01:33 AM
Foxit reader is really cool software . Opens faster and many options that are not available in adobe reader . I usually recommend this software for my readers , whenever I make a post related with PDF . If you are making a PDF reader for mobile devices ,I hardly need a version that works with Symbian s60 V3 or Java mobile phones .

techknowl (http://www.techknowl.com/)

parkar.leonardo
February 24th, 2009, 09:57 PM
I already use it in my mobile and it's really nice.

GregWoods
March 24th, 2009, 07:30 AM
Bought this after opening one PDF which was impossible to read without reflow. Superb!
After my brief use, I have 2 suggestions:
* More fine-grained zoom (goes from barely readable to child-like)
* Remember all view settings after exit. (it seems to remember where I was in a doc - though I've not tested across multiple doc openings - but it doesn't remember that I ALWAYS want to use reflow mode)

christina
March 25th, 2009, 07:48 PM
Thanks. I will let our development team know this.

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holle
July 13th, 2009, 10:15 AM
Well, i used to use adobe reader on my old wm5 device. This program definitely was a pain, but at least tagged pdf could be read in reflow mode and you were able to scroll "reflow-page" to "reflow-page" with the wheel or by using your pad. Foxit works pretty well in reflow mode even with untagged pdfs but is unfortunately not usable to read books cause a "reflow-page" seems different to foxit than a normal page .... when you scroll with the pad or the wheel to the next page, foxit jumps to the next PAGE and not "Reflow-Page" .... puh, hope you know what i mean.

switch to "Move Page" in the settings is not as convenient as scroll from Page to Page.

And..... keeping the settings when you reopen would be wonderful.

i tested Foxit on a Touch Diamond 2

TritonT
July 30th, 2009, 07:41 AM
version tested: 2.0 0701
devices used: HTC Universal, HTC Touch Diamond

Just done a quick test of 2.0 and all of my previous criticisms of 1.4 still stand.

http://forums.foxitsoftware.com//showthread.php?t=10812

Even the renderer bug in reflow mode hasn't been fixed. It might be more appropriate to call it Foxit Viewer and not Foxit Reader, as its great at viewing PDFs but dreadful as a Reader.

I'm still holding out hope!

ljepava
July 30th, 2009, 11:41 AM
foxit reader 2 (Dell Axim x51v)

few things i dont like:
1. it doesnt open last opened pdf
2. splash screen is low res and it cant be turned off
3. only remembers 5 last opened documents
hope it will be fixed in new build, soon :)

kostiakot
August 1st, 2009, 03:06 AM
I like it , when it works!
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kimobcn
August 4th, 2009, 07:03 AM
I agree with mustela07 and others. Foxit reader IS NOT finger friendly. My device (Toshiba TG-01) has no keys and 800X480 resolution, so the toolbar arrows to change pages are tiny, tiny, tiny and nearly impossible to activate with a finger.

Please make a touch friendly version and you will gain a customer.

Block Phone
September 25th, 2009, 05:55 AM
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trokki
September 27th, 2009, 12:06 AM
Hallo everyone,

this incredible product couls give the possibility to the user to add bookmarks, and highlight contents?
in this way read pdf will be really interesting, usually I have to edit them in my PC and after transfer to the PDA, so when I take the documents with me I can not work on it! Sometime it happens that I have a new book to read, and is a pity that I can not work on it on real time with add bookmarks and highlighting, moving around a document with a PDA is impossible without these 2 functions.
Anyway compliment for this software is incredible, and read PDF is not frustrating anymore!:1_30:

SpaceFuzz
October 30th, 2009, 01:37 PM
Great features:
- Reflow without tagging (this is why I bought Foxit 2.0! Love it).
- Small and fast. Unlike competitor...geez what a bloated hog.
- Stable. I don't recall it ever crashing, and I use it a lot.

Bug:
- Reflow seems to lose half-paragraphs when a paragraph spans pages. I'll read the 1st half of a paragraph on page 1, but when I scroll to page 2, I only get the beginning of the next full paragraph. I lost the 2nd half of the paragraph I was reading. This is a consistent bug, reproducible.

Feature requests:
- Auto-scrolling. The granular scroll speed of your competitor is awesome and allows one to read a document without clicking or scrolling with their finger. I miss this feature in Foxit.
- Finger-friendly menus. Already stated elsewhere...repeatedly.
- Auto-open last document. Foxit remembers last page read, but not last document read. So when I start Foxit, I have to manually open the doc, and then it points me to my current page. This is reported in other threads, too.
- "Continuous" page reading. Instead of doing a full page redraw when changing pages, it would be nice to simply draw a demarcation line where page 1 ends and page 2 begins and allow this page break to scroll up with the text. The current function is to scroll to the bottom of page 1, then redraw the screen with page 2 starting at the top.
- File > Open function pointing to specific directory. Currently, File > Open will bring you to the Recent Files, My Device, and All PDF. I never use All PDF because the things I want to read are in one particular folder "To Read." Recent Files is useful, but only because the auto-open last document doesn't work. Otherwise, I have to navigate EVERY TIME to the same To Read folder. Would be nice if it remembered last folder used and started there...instead of My Device.

Thanks Foxit for a great product. I need to re-flash my phone to get the old bloated PDF reader off. Would love for HTC to pre-load Foxit instead. I'll be monitoring the forums for an opportunity to beta test the next version.

trokki
November 14th, 2009, 05:00 PM
Hallo everyone,

this incredible product couls give the possibility to the user to add bookmarks, and highlight contents?
in this way read pdf will be really interesting, usually I have to edit them in my PC and after transfer to the PDA, so when I take the documents with me I can not work on it! Sometime it happens that I have a new book to read, and is a pity that I can not work on it on real time with add bookmarks and highlighting, moving around a document with a PDA is impossible without these 2 functions.
Anyway compliment for this software is incredible, and read PDF is not frustrating anymore!

and by the way, in add to the possibility to edit the bookmarks and highlight contents, I really need more control on the shortcuts, I have 4 button on my PDA and I would like to add to each one one function, for instance at the moment is impossible to set one bottom with full screen, and an other to show the miniature of the page.
then i would like to suggest to use a kind of a function that split easily with a button or click the worlds after the one I have already read, I mean often I have to tap the stylus on the miniature because the rows are long and I can not easily read them with a zoom comfortable, so i tap the first half of the row in the miniature to red the first part with a reasonable zoom(that I can uses to read documents and navigate into more than one hour without headaches) then if i tap the second part of the row (i did not still read!) is really frustrating to find the perfect tap because 99 per cent of the cases I can not cut exactly out of the zoom some words or letters I have just read with the first tap, and is really terrible. Instead if you could use a functionality that with a click/hw button permit to go exactly on the next square zoom(is easy i think just an algorhitm that divide exactly in squares the screen taking into account the zoom definied by the user, it will be EXCEPTIONAL READ, especially if you add bookmarks and highlights. CONSIDER these 3 ideas. :1_12: and I am sure everyone will use this panacea milions of hard readers like me in the world
by the way the open sucks, too much time, and I would like also a kind of memory buffet that contain the past document I read!!! FOXIT READER 4EVER:

ps the reflow is cool but the idea of squares autoformatted is best, because the flow do not consider the original layout!!!Of course my suggestion will rend Foxit reader also really usefull to read comic on pda