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Talking LiveCode • Re: Reliable IOS and ANDROID pdf viewing

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The current one that comes close to working is having a google embed which works on both platforms but only 80% of the time. Is there a way to make this option consistent?
Possibly, if we can determine the difference between the working and non-working instances.

Do you find patterns to the failures? (by document, session duration, phone model, etc)

Another option:

Are you limited to PDF? If you don't have a choice you don't have a choice, but most PDFs are delivered with a fixed size far larger than can be gracefully viewed on a small screen, requiring horizontal scrolling with every line in addition to vertical scrolling.

ePub offers an alternative designed to reflow based on display area, and depending on how the document is used there may be other options as well.

Of course the viability of alternatives will depend on sourcing. If it's stuff you make, you can make it in a mobile-friendly format. But if you need to work with stuff others make, it's only been a decade and a half and it seems it may be be a few more years before many information providers realize that handheld devices have been invented. 🙂

Statistics: Posted by FourthWorld — Sat May 18, 2024 4:44 pm



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