Brainstorm

PDF Reader lacks important features.

Posted on 2009-10-03 11:44 UTC by Johannes Siipola. Status: Under consideration

As noticed here here, http://my-symbian.com/other/preview_n900.php?page=4, the build-in PDF Reader application has several problems.

 

1. No kinetic scrolling

This is a huge usability issue. The whole rest OS uses kinetic scrolling exlusively and that makes the PDF Reader inconsistent with the rest of the applications. It also seems to use stylus-sized scrollbars that makes it hard to use it with fingers.

2. No portrait mode

Yes, this has been discussed many and many times over. But since picture viewer supports the portrait mode, why doesn't this application`?

3. No scrolling to another page

User needs to use the dedicated page-changing buttons to change the page. Why the page cannot simply swipe or scoll to next page when you reach the bottom?

4. No search

Searching should be integral part on any application that processes text.

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Solution #1: Nokia should bundle evince

Posted on 2009-10-15 21:21 UTC by Joseph Pingenot.

Evince already has most of these features (off the top of my head, since the brainstorm site won't show me the problem while creating a solution for it, evince only lacks kinetic scrolling).

Evince is a fairly full-featured PDF reader. Why not assign Nokia devs to the project and eliminate the redundancy? Then instead of having two mostly-there PDF readers, we have one fully-there PDF reader!

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Solution #2: Add more zooming level

Posted on 2010-03-29 12:35 UTC by Emanuele Cassioli.

Some of my documents and comics are not readable using the maximum zooming level, PDF Reader definitely needs more zooming level.

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