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A viewer only for $49.95? I gotta bridge for sale.
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Sorry. If I want viewable, read only files, I'll stick to PDF files.
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RE: Zooming PowerPoint file Views? Sure
You also can have up to 3 zoom levels available for each slide at the max resolution.
Additionally, Quickpoint provides a thumbnail view option to see the 'flow' of your presentation with four slides at a time.
Mike (with a blatant plug)
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As far as this program goes, there are plenty of all in one solutions that cheaper and/or provide more features such as editing. If one wants PDF viewing, there is Adobe's viewer. It is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it is free. As far as HTML viewing, iSilo works perfectly for me. It provides me with the most options for conversion.
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I think where RepliGo brings something new to the Palm community is in document fidelity. With RepliGo, you have a full, high-resolution version of the original document right there on your Palm. I think there is a class of Palm user for whom that's important, to be able to zoom in and see precisely what that document would have looked like if it were printed.
As for PDFs, the Acrobat -Viewer- is free, but Acrobat is not, and I think you'll find for its capability and ease of use on Palm devices, RepliGo fares pretty well for the money.
Jim Moy - Software Engineer, Cerience
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Slow on my m505
Dave Anasco
"They can have my Palm when they pry it from my cold dead fingers."
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Now if this was a native file format viewer I could get quite excited.
I'm waiting for the day my TT doesn't throw a hissy fit after I've downloaded a .doc attachment through Snappermail.
M1
Great Technology
Of course you still have some little things to fix like font sharpness (although in the PocketPC version it's quite readable - must be my Tungsten T high resolution).
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Jim Moy - Software Engineer, Cerience
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This is actually pretty cool!
I was able to convert several .PDF files and they look great. More testing required! :)
My ONLY complaint so far is that I own a Sony CLie NX70V, and RepliGo doesn't seem to support HiRes+. If it had that, this would be a KILLER program!
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So I am now trying to figure out, Adobe documents aside, is this software worth the money? True, the conversion is easier, because all you do is tap on the print icon, and the rest is done for you. Is that enough to justify $50 (now $40)? PDR
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One example of a person who might be interested in RepliGo is a lawyer who has a bunch of faxes with signatures that he wants to be able to look at in great detail. Or scanned, archived documents with notes in the margins that don't translate very well to anything other than a highly graphical format. You can probably think of other people who would have use for a high-resolution document saved to a portable device.
RepliGo's definitely not a web browser. It doesn't follow links, submit forms, etc., and the documents are typically viewed on-screen and not authored for high-resolution printing. But what you see in RepliGo is very precisely what IE or your favorite desktop browser showed you, down to that last little filler GIF that the graphic designer so carefully aligned. RepliGo doesn't do any reformatting or substituting with Palm fonts, what you see is what the app printed.
As I described above, I think where RepliGo will shine is where high fidelity to the original is expected, and desired.
Jim Moy - Software Engineer, Cerience
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Why not just print to JPG?
Edward Green
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RE: Why not just print to JPG?
Intelligence about the document, for one. The RepliGo format knows where logical chunks of text are found. When you tap on a paragraph, it highlights briefly before going into flowed mode. The text, in its original desktop font and appearance are wrapped for viewing convenience, which is not possible with an image viewer. Images embedded in the document are recognized, and are convenient to tap and zoom into. Just a couple of examples of how the built-in intelligence give meaningful features to the viewer. Give it a try!
Compression, secondly. JPEG, and other graphics file formats are not optimized for typical business documents. The example you gave might produce 100 KB or larger images per _page_ at the resolution levels RepliGo provides. (Of course, depending on the resolution and compression level chosen) and associated with it the problems of manipulating and decompressing them on these limited memory devices. And once you do get it compressed down, you've got all artifacts to read through.
Third, document management. Lots of documents are multi-page. I don't know about you, but I would sure get tired of dealing with all those individual JPEG files, getting them named reasonably, and dealing with them in my image viewer. RepliGo stores multi-page documents logically, like your original document. A related (not so distant) fourth item is integration. You get all this with just a few clicks: hit the convert button; prompt for the name and location of the document; hit your HotSync button; done.
These are roughly in the order that I value the benefits of RepliGo, and I use it personally for pretty average documents and web pages, I think.
Jim Moy - Software Engineer, Cerience
(The views expressed by the author may not represent the views of Cerience Corporation, etc., etc.)
RE: Why not just print to JPG?
Would you consider adding Paperport .max viewability?
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David
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Jim Moy - Software Engineer, Cerience
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RepliGo go blank-dark
Just downloaded the trial version, tried a 10 pages PDF file, but when the document came up, I get to see the front page for about 1-2 seconds, then the whole thing went blank-dark. Nothing else happend thereafter, has any encounter this yet? What could I have done wrong?
Thanks,
John
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If you could pass some more specific information along to support@cerience.com, it would be greatly appreciated. We could use a copy of your original PDF and the PDB file that represents the PDF (assuming its not proprietary). Also, your device type, memory available, and any other special programs or hacks that might be running.
Dave Formanek - Cerience
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