Description:
PocketXpdf is a no-frills viewer for native PDF files for the Pocket PC platform.
The rendering engine is a port of Xpdf.
PocketXpdf has been tested on an ASUS MyPal running Windows Mobile 2003 and on a Dell Axim X51v running Windows Mobile 5.0. It has not been tested on earlier versions, so it cannot be guaranteed that it will work on these systems.
Known bugs and limitations:
- Zooming in too far will make the program run out of memory and cancel the zooming.
- Some PDF files may crash the program. Please report!
- No support for non-western character encodings.
- No support for PocketPC 2002 or older Smartphone editions.
Update Description:
v0.5.0:
New:
- Bookmarks, manually defined or automatic for recently used files.
- More flexible button mapping.
- The following page is pre-rendered in the background while viewing a page.
- Doubleclick in the outline view opens the respective page.
Bug Fixes:
- "Blank pages" after returning from standby should no longer occur.
- Opening PDF files via file explorer or in email attachments now works even if PocketXpdf is running in the background.
- CAB file installation to memory card is now possible.
v0.4.0:
New:
- CAB-file for automatic installation.
- Support for password-protected PDFs.
- New zoom tool - drag a rectangle around the area to zoom.
- Text search.
- Outline view (for PDFs that support it).
- Improved scrolling (including optional page change).
- Reduced size of the binary (UPX-compression).
- More...
Bug fixes:
- Removed flickering when scrolling.
- Enabled file association for email attachments.
- More graceful handling when out of memory.
- More...
v0.3.1:
- Fonts may be placed in the application directory and are included in the main download package.
- Minor bug fixes.
v0.3:
- Optional full screen mode.
- Rotate page ("landscape").
- Text-only view (great for low res displays).
- Optional scroll bars.
- Wait message during rendering.
v0.2:
- Initial public version.
