Although I wished the page view had horizontal or zoom level locking. The cleanest and most convenient reading experience on the Android was the RepliGo in text view mode. The screen is already small enough and I don't have a hawk vision to look at fine text. I don't want to see margins or permanent toolbars which take valuable screen space. I couldn't find a single pdf reader where I can just swipe each page upward and get the next page without any kind of indicator or the page moving sideways, unless I do a perfect 90 degree vertical swipe! They need to add all kinds of off/on settings so that that the majority of users can tweak the app to their preferences. I doubt these developers tried to read a pdf for an extended period of time!? Otherwise these usability issues would not have been there. Don't keep putting all those indicators on top of what I am trying to read. If I need an option, I can bring up ON DEMAND. So remove anything that's not related to me reading. This means remove anything that distracts the user from what they are doing. These designers/developers need to learn a usability lesson or two. What's annoying these readers do not have settings to disable these notices. As if I don't know which pdf file I have open! Some readers show permanent stuff like the pdf file name at the top. Just lock that level and I will be happy. The - & + zoom level indicator every time I touch the screen. Then I get all the notices in my face every I swipe. with every swipe I have to reposition the page so that all the text is centered in the screen. NONE of them allows me to zoom into a pdf file and lock that zoom and let me swipe to go to the next page without the page moving sideways. I tried Adobe Reader, Dataviz Documents To Go, RepliGo, ezPDF and some minor readers. I have spent hours evaluating the popular pdf readers and I am frustrated with all of them.
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