If you use pdf reader at all, please go and vot bug number 737 at maemo bugzilla.

It asks nokia to move the middle navigation button to be next page button. This means that you can change page while in fullscreen and zoomed mode. MUCH more convinient if nokia would change that.

Please go, login (create account if needed) and vote!

Also, comment on the issue / make recommendations.

https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=737

I am reading during holidays a pdf book (around 800 pages) on my Nokia 770 OS 2006 ! With a zoom of 200% is really reading. During the spare moments I could allready read around 200 pages without any complaints, ...

Ok, a bookmark functionality would be great, but since I never power of the device (unless it crashes ofcourse), the book stays open all the time, and I can immediately continue reading the book.

Cheers, Jan

Does the 2006 PDF Viewer have a way to rotate the pages? I can't seem to find it, but for a book-style PDF it would make a lot more sense, I think.

Nope, but file that as a bug in bugzilla and hopefully the future version will have such.

evince is now available for 2006, including djvu support :-)

Just downloaded an tested:

1) There is a stupid bug: the tool-bar hide function does not work and thereafter the screen adjust is mistified.

2) It is terrible slow. New pages get a lot to render. The keyboard lasts seconds to appear (when browsing to desired page).

3) As the built-in PDF-reader, there is no option to select own zoom percentage. There are only some electable choices.

4) Bad navigation with keys, even worse than the usual PDF-reader.

How is everybodys experience with djvus?
I tried to make my own djvus from scanned images but its even slower than a PDF consisting of those scanned images.
And i dont know who is to blame, djvu the format, evince's djvu implementation or my djvus.

I tried evince and it crashed when opening a PDF (one of my Rails ebooks).

Yes here too.
It works better if you start it from a xterm, but still, i am very disappointed about evince. It crashes, its slow and you have to pray your nokia wont reboot if you open a pdf.

Sucks :-(

After several weeks my conclusion of "How is pdf reading on the 770?" is:
Absolutely horrible.
The builtin-reader allows you to read a few pages of a very simple pdf, everything more will piss you off so much that you want to throw your 770 against the wall.
Evince, the great pdf-reader you know from your Desktop-Linux sucks even more on the 770, its slower and crashes/freezes/reboots your 770 almost 100% reliably on every pdf after some usage.

If you have to read your pdfs on the 770 you better convert them to jpg-galleries and view them with opera.