Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC

eBook Software


The Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC includes the functionality common to Acrobat Reader, including bookmarks, thumbnails, zooming, 'go to page,' text selection, viewing annotation and the latest (all important for eBooks) page reflow technology.

  • As of September 24, 2001, Acrobat Reader 1.0 for Pocket PC has been in beta.

Users of WindowsCE 2.0 and older devices (as with Microsoft Reader) are out of luck as Adobe does not have plans to release a version Acrobat Reader for them. Support for Forms and DRM are not included in the release, however it does allow PDFs to be password protected.

A little on reflow

The real benefit of reflow is that it means the PDF can be viewed more easily on different sized devices (with different sized screen resolutions). PDF files with reflow capability are created by embedding these structure tags within the PDF file. The logical structure of a PDF file is stored separately from its physical representation in what is known as a structure tree. This tree of elements contains pointers from the logical structure to the physical representation. More...

A Closer Look

Acrobat Reader in Full Screen mode. Notice the usual horizontal Pocket PC taskbar is hidden from view to maximize the area displayed.

Acrobat Reader in Full Screen mode, using Reflow to force column of text to the width of the screen.

Acrobat Reader making use of the Toolbar, Articles, Bookmark and Thumbnail navigation features.

General Preferences

Toolbar Preferences

Due to the lack of space on screen, Acrobat Reader allows the user to select which tools are displayed on the toolbar -- these vary depending on how the reader uses PDFs on their Pocket PC.

Tools include:

  • Open Document
  • Show/Hide Pane
  • Page Indicator/Go to Page
  • Find
  • Zoom In/Zoom In Tool
  • Zoom Out/Zoom Out Tool
  • Default Zoom
  • Fit Width
  • Previous Page
  • Next Page
  • Back
  • Forward
  • Hand Tool
  • Text Select Tool
  • Column Select Tool
  • Reflow Toggle
  • Rotate View

System requirements

  • Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 4 or above, or Windows 2000. 32 MB minimum. 155 MHz Intel® Pentium® processor with 64 MB for Windows 2000. 10 MB hard disk space (actual requirements will vary based on user's current system configuration). ActiveSync 3.1 or 3.5
  • Pocket PC (Windows CE 3.0), minimum 16 MB, 32 MB recommended

Pocket PC available storage space



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