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Old 12-29-07, 02:52 AM   #1 (permalink)
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RTF Readers?

Are there any good, and free, RTF readers that will work on the X30?

Pocket Word's performance on large files (say 1MB+) is atrocious. I got an X30 High for Christmas which will be replacing my old Clie T615C. On the Clie I had Documents to Go which worked alright for reading files, but the same files don't work as well in Pocket Word which has a habit of freezing up for a while while doing who knows what. (And while it can open a 4MB RTF file, one of my 1MB plain text files won't even open.)

For plain text files I've got HaaliReader which is the kinda thing I want, but with RTF support. (Or at least support for a format that can handle things like italic or bold.)
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Try this yet?
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Yeah, that thing's not really freeware it's nagware and has full justification you can't apparently turn off. And I don't really like it's looks.
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It has never nagged me. I don't know if I have an outdated build or a "lite" version or something, but It is my favourite ebook reader ever. Small text sizes are great on vga screens, and it has support for the PDB palm format.
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It has never nagged me.
Me either!
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The first thing I see when running uBook is a screen saying "Licensed to Demo Please Register" and it comes up again every 6 pages. And in any event the mandatory full justification is a deal breaker.

Text_____that_____looks_____like_____this_____does _____not_____look_____good.

Right now I've resorted to using Mobipocket and converting the files. (I was highly annoyed to find out it doesn't really support converting Doc files, it requires Microsoft Word to do it and I use Open Office.)

Edit: Oh, and it doesn't uninstall very well either. Have to manually delete the ubook folder after going through Remove Programs because it doesn't get rid of files it creates when being run. (Like the ubook.ini file.)

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The first thing I see when running uBook is a screen saying "Licensed to Demo Please Register" and it comes up again every 6 pages.
Doesn't sound like you followed the link to the free version. Did you?
I downloaded it just after my first post and have none of the problems that you mentioned.
I have it on my X5 and my X51V ...no problems.
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I downloaded the newest version from the author's website. (And had tried it out before my post.)
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