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It is beautiful countryside, especially this time of year. And some very picturesque villages.
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Thanks, I'm liking some of that!
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So VS2017 wants to run an update... It's OK with me, I have older projects to attend in VS2015 meanwhile... But! the installer wants VS2015 out too!
All good... There is work to do on VS2010 either... But behold! No VS2010 allowed either!!!
And all that because they can not decide which devenv.exe belongs to which VS...
So while I'm updating VS2017 - I can play with my tablet... hopefully...
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Do what I do - have a separate VM for each tool chain.
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You beat me to it.
I have VMs for each major version of VS going all the way back to 2005 (I've never worked with .NET 1.0/1.1), plus one more for VC++ 6.0.
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I installed VS 2017 to give it a try and it said it could run alongside VS 2015 with no issues. It seemed to be OK and i could still run VS 2015 for those production projects shared with colleagues who weren't updating (I am the one in the team that researches all new stuff like this).
OK, so I decided, due to various and sundry failures, that VS 2017 wasn't ready for us to moved to just yet and uninstalled it. No problem; a nice clean uninstall... except VS 2015 no longer worked and I had to completely re-install it to get it to work again including setting up all the extensions and plug-ins I relied upon.
So much for not interfering with earlier versions! I also went ahead and uninstalled all earlier VS versions at this point so now I only have VS 2015 installed - and I don't plan on changing this until they take Windows 7 and VS 2015 from my cold, freshly washed hands.
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I join the others in saying that VM's are your friend. Painless to set up and use.
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I just searched for "Android, PDF" here on Code Project, and the first ten or fifteen hits were not what I was trying to find.
I have a new phone. It's an Android.
I want to put a PDF reader on it.
It would be nice if the reader could also do straight ASCII Text.
Suggestions are welcome.
I have found from experience that waiting a day or two for opinions here on CodeProject tends to yield far better results than Google (or Bing, or whomever) provides.
Searching my own previous messages didn't give me anything in the first twenty hits, so, hopefully I'm not annoying the community with a topic that reappears too frequently (or worse, which I asked before and forgot).
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I use WPS office - it reads PDF, DOC / DOCX, and Excel files as well as text.
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I use an old version of the free Adobe PDF reader. IMHO, it's much snappier and renders better than the current version. If you like I can make it avaialble to you.
/ravi
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For PDF files, I use Adobe Reader. For TXT files, I use ASTRO File Manager.
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For reading pdf books, I use Play Books. With its horizontal scrolling through pages, night mode and option to add bookmarks, I find it's just right for it.
A downside is that it takes quite a while (minutes) to add a pdf to it. So for things like plane/train tickets, receipts etc, I prefer using the Google Drive pdf viewer. This works for local files, in case the name Google Drive sounds suspicious.
modified 13-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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EBookDroid is the best one I've found as it's extremely fast even with image-heavy PDFs and you can configure it to hide as much of the UI as you like, up to all of it.
I can't tell you whether it does ASCII text but it does other formats such as ePub and RTF.
Xodo is also good if you want to open multiple PDFs in a tabbed interface, or annotate them.
Regards
Nelviticus
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Foxit mobile works well for me. A few other I tried didn't open some of the PDF's I had, but Foxit works good so far. I didn't compare much other than that.
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I like RepliGo Reader. Main feature I like is it maintains your position in the PDF when reopening. I'm typically reading several documents at a time. When reading a novel I like to start where I left off.
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Thank you to each and every one who has offered suggestions.
From reading here and one or two of the external sources, my initial choice was Xodo.
At this moment, I'm not totally okay with it, although it may work.
The three big things I want are...
- Text reformats and fits the screen when I zoom it
- Text reformats and fits the screen when I change the phone from vertical to horizontal
- Ability to scroll to the next page without special gestures (i.e., smoothly, like the PC can do)
Do any of the previously mentioned readers have the ability to do that, already built-in ?
Does Xodo have that ability ? So far, I haven't found the config thing to do that.
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A replacement in the manner of hosting, so files wont be handed over to other company but kept close to you...
I found two: LinShare and NextCloud (the later seems better to me)...
Any tips? Experience?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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No answer relative to your question. Looking at NextCloud, all I can say is that their website is a mess. 
Marc
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I've often wondered what it would take to make something usable from the FTP service most ISPs offer. Host the files SFTP, a server process runs on the server that indexes the files, and create the necessary Windows/Linux/Android/IOs processes to link to it and sync everything. I'm sure I've missed a lot, and it is probably a massive undertaking, but why does everything have to be in the cloud? Is there much demand for that type of approach, or does everyone insist that MS and others host their files? Or is it better to have bigger corps do it, because of the security that many smaller ISPs don't master?
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FTP isn't good enough...
The idea behind those file sharing systems (the better ones) is to synchronize only what really changed... Most of those systems does not store files on file system but in DB, that enables partial synchronization... also there is access right (I shared my files only with you and not all users)... there is also a goo deal of notifications... there is also the subject of concurrent changes and how to resolve (DropBox for instance creates versions at let resolve it manually by the parties)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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ftp isn't but if you are looking to roll your own solution it would be worth taking a look at winscp[^]
it needs some configuration but appears to work reliably although I have only used it as a backup tool and have no experience with large numbers of files
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I have been using Sync for the last year and a half. Very good and MUCH cheaper than DropBox however you do still "hand over your files"...
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