Time for a new Adobe Pocket Reader?

[lotus_in_the_hills]

All my pdf files from JSTOR look atrocious on Adobe Reader for Pocket PC 2.0. With a little screen rotation, I can usually zoom to the point where the text is just barely readable but not so humongous that I only have 7 or so words on the screen. It looks like adobe hasn't released a new version of this software since 2004. They can surely do better. With VGA screens and all, I ought to be able to have an entire page of a scanned-in journal article on the screen and still have the text be sharp and readable.

Seeing as I'm a whiny college student (will any of you non-college students know what JSTOR is? hmmm), I probably have homework I ought to be doing. Somewhere. So I'll stop whining and get back to that

[Mahstah]

Good point, Adobe needs to get with the times. That or a third party should see the income potential for making a pdf viewer for VGA/WM5 devices.

Pocket Acrobat 2 works OK on the VGA/WM5, but it could certainly use some improvements.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Have you treid pocketXpdf? It seems to work alot better for me than adobe.

Spiff

[Mahstah]

I just now tried pocketxpdf and it's... slow. It works, but still not up to expectations for pdf docs on the PPC.

[lotus_in_the_hills]

Pocketxpdf delivers in terms of image quality, but like Mahstah said, s-l-o-w. Why does rendering take so much time? But I recently found a good solution with Adobe Pocket Reader - if you have Tweak2k2, then you can use the VGA Brute Force feature to dramatically improve the image quality. Makes it just about as good as Pocketxpdf and it runs much faster!