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Adobe Reader announced for Android, available now for select devices
May 24, 2010 | by Chris Smith
Android Apps, Free apps, Productivity
Looks like Adobe keeps rolling out the news with their new BFF, Android. Adobe Reader for Android is available now in the Market and are only “officially supported” on certain devices including the Moto DROID, Moto Milestone, Nexus One. Adobe also lets us know that it has not been tested on other devices, but they imagine that it can work.
Some of the features that are included in Adobe Reader are multi-touch gesture support, double-tap zoom, flick-scrolling and panning, and something very interesting, reflow mode. “Reflow” will take large text-centric PDF documents and enlarge the text and basically “word-wrap” it to fit the screen. This can make PDF docs much easier to read on a smaller screens. As of now this is the first Android PDF reading app that supports this type of functionality as far as I know, and it seems like this feature could be extremely useful.
Adobe Reader for Android requires Android 2.1, at least a 500MGhz processor, 256MB RAM, and 4.3MB of available disk space, and a “currently supported device”. Give it a try and let us know what you think and also let us know if it works on more devices than the Moto DROID, Milestone, and Nexus One.
Source [Adobe Reader Blog]
A 500MGhz processor? That's a heck of a clock speed
Runs on my HTC magic fine, running cyanogen mod 5.07 test
same goes for the g1 with CM5.0.7
Works on Samsung Moment My recent post Review: Expedia TripAssist for the iPhone
Nope, not the first one. The PDF reader from HTC (which includes Adobe Reader LE 2.5 as it says in the About screen) has this functionality and much more actually. The official Adobe Reader takes way more time to load documents (tried with a 580-page book and took at least 10 seconds on my Desire), though it's a bit faster in scrolling big documents. The lack of even basic features don't make it too useful for serious use though….
Works fine on Moto Droid.
Even works fine on a HTC Tattoo flashed with 2.1
I’m using Pdf viewer, had my basic unhacked magic for a year and Pdf Viewer has ben installed for a long time, works great, no probs… So Adobe finally releases a pdf reader that i can’t use, unless i hack my phone??? That’s AMAZING
Thank you… Adobe, for being that fast, and Htc for butt f.. your costumers by neglecting to upgrade our phones