Comments on: Cerience Releases Repligo 2.0

Yes, I have tried it, and I highly recommend it. Repligo is an EXCELLENT viewer. It is flexible and very complete. I am currently trying out the new v2.0 before I upgrade, but so far, it looks sweet. V1.x was stable, fast, and very useful. For example, a team lead at work sent us a 105 page PowerPoint presentation detailing development standards. Repligo faithfully reproduced the presentation in just over 300K, and I was able to read it without any problems on my PDA.

Generating document files is as easy as selecting the Repligo Printer and printing. It's VERY simple. Basically, if you can print it, you can send it to RepliGo. That's power.

Also, the company is very responsive. They seem to actually want to please their customers. I am often put off by upgrade fees, but this is one I'll gladly pay because the product is great and the service/support has been top-notch.

For what it's worth, I am running it on a Sony Clie NX70V, so it's speed is very good.

Just my $.02 from a very satisfied customer...

Yes, me too. It is excellent and blends well with most program using the virtual printer driver. Much better than Acrobat which is slow.

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Not only is Adobe reader s-l-o-w, but it isn't really viewable for some content on the PDA.

I have it on my TT3, and it DOESN'T support the full screen, and on my PDF manuals for my car that I tried loading, couldn't convert them, and I was stuck trying to view a condensed version, w/o the capability to zoom in to a level that made the text readable.

If you are on the fence about this program over Adobe, go ahead and jump!

>>Not only is Adobe reader s-l-o-w, but it isn't really viewable for some content on the PDA.

yes - always been bloated and slow on the dewsktop too. i've never been able to understand how this slogware ever become the standard. the palm version is especially terrible.

I just tried this software today and I'm really impressed. I couldn't believe my eyes when I tested the print option to my HP bluetooth printer C8145A and my word an excell files were printed full color, images and tables and all the formating as if I did it from my desktop.

I have printboy and btprint and none of them can compare with the printing power of this software. I think I will buy it!

I downloaded it yesterday and registered it today. It is great! PowerPoint looks exactly like the desktop as does Adobe PDF files. Great for viewing word documents that are 'reference' kind of documents. Allows for notes and highlighting as well.

It won't replace Documents To Go, but is it a good reason to skip the upgrade that gives you PowerPoint compatability (unless you need to edit PowerPoint files on the Palm).

Mike

Yea, like a lot of others here, I have to whole-heartedly say it's one of the best programs I've EVER used, on any platform (desktop or mobile).

I use it on my MPx200 and it's allowed me to do nothing short of going virtually paperless in my work and personal life. Convert anything quickly and cheaply.

Docs To Go is a great product for editing your documents, I use it on a regular basis. Sometimes though, full editing is not required, just the ability to mark up for review. With RepliGo 2.0, the comment and highlight features allow you to do that, similar to how Adobe Professional works with PDF files.

Jim Moy - Software Engineer, Cerience
(The views expressed by the author may not represent the views of Cerience Corporation, etc., etc.)

Adobe should watch out and purchase this company...

This should be what Acrobrat PDA version 2 should be...

Cerience can innovate such a wonderful product compared to big and bulky Adobe ...
Adobe should learn to KISS (Keep It Sexily Simple )like Cerience...

Look like this time, a giant is overwhelmed by a superAnt...

<:^}

Hey...I like when Adobe Reader starts up so I can view a PDF file on my computer. The time it takes allows me to get a cup of coffee or go to the bathroom.

If by "...get a cup of coffee..." you mean fly to columbia, talk Juan out of some of him and his donkeys beans, take them home, grind them, then brew it, yeah, that seems about right ;)

"Adobe should watch out and purchase this company..."

I hope not. They would mess up a good thing!

Yeah , viewer is the word. I d like something more of a Reader to read the docs and not view them.

It appears that way from the Cerience website which has the following:

"RepliGo 2.0 for Palm OS 5 brings incredible new functionality and blazing speed to your document viewing experience on the latest and most innovative Palm OS 5 devices available."

thanks, I'll update that

Ummmm...I think you are missing something. From Cerience's website:

"The best part is that RepliGo Viewer 2.0 for Windows is free! All RepliGo Viewers are free to use and distribute to your colleagues. Simply purchase the conversion software, created (sic) RepliGo documents, and distribute them to your mobile or desktop workforce."

(I noted the typo which should be "create" not "created.") The free Adobe Reader can read pdf files. However, the free Cerience RepliGo 2.0 reader cannot read pdf files. It can only read pdf files that have been converted to the RepliGo format using the not-free conversion software. So...as much as I am not a fan of Adobe Reader, a comparison between the free Adobe reader and the not-actually-free RepliGo reader is not fair.

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So...as much as I am not a fan of Adobe Reader, a comparison between the free Adobe reader and the not-actually-free RepliGo reader is not fair.
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True, no comparison at all. Adobe is supposed to be a cross platform publishing product that allow you to view the same thing regardless of the platform. It's not when it comes to Palm.

RepliGo will convert a PDF file to the Palm and it looks EXACTLY like the PDF file would look on your desktop. Graphics, lines, drawing, text, color and all. Exactly the same.

With the free Adobe reader, you get 'not exactly' ;)

Mike (you get what you pay for).

well, I've never had problems with my old m105 and my laptop. Instead, I've had to turn off the beam receive preference on the palm since it keeps turning the "waiting for sender messagge" on every time it comes close to the laptop.

Hmmm.

Haven't done this in a while since BT came along, but I think if you beam a contact from your Palm to your desktop, don't 'ok' the transfer on the desktop just yet, and then start your IR transfer to the Palm it will work.

YMMV

brad

It does not work, the weird thing is that I can beam from desktop to palm, but not from palm to desktop.....

thaks anyways