topic said it all...link would be great...thx in advance.

a good free one would be the default PDF reader built into the device. email yourself the PDF and you are good to go. As to a third party app, I havent looked into them but you could search the third party app section here.

The built-in viewer is the only free PDF viewer I am of.

The viewer built in to the email is getting pretty good, too, in my opinion.

but the build-in...let's say u have a file consist of 800 pages...and if you dont have accessed over the air signal like an underground, it won't download page by page.

i wish someone come out with a third party free adobe reader...pocket pc and palm have them...why not bb?

I'm betting an 800 page pdf isn't going to be useful on the blackberry even reading it from a memory card. I recall trying on a PPC, and trying to search or quickly page into a big pdf was useless. Maybe things have changed. Don't know.

an 800 page pdf would take a long time to render on a full PC let alone a mobile device.

You'd be blind by page 100, there's no need for an 800 page document.

Yeah, seriously, if someone wants me to look at a letter quick like, it is no problem to open an read from and email attachment. If someone emails me a huge doc, it can wait. I'm just not going to try and carry around huge doc's on the blackberry for reference. That aint what it's for.

Well, playing devil's advocate - if I could come out with a more capable pdf reader, what possible motivation could you give me for providing one - AND supporting one - for free?!?! As for why there's one for pocket pc and palm, but not for BB - maybe because there IS an OEM included one on the BB but not on the others?

it sure beat carrying a 800 page book!!!!

which viewer that you guys talking about? can you tell me so I could use it?
as of now, I can't view my pdf on BB


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Oooh, that native viewer :<

I can't barely see the font on using that viewer,
The Preview was ok, but as soon as I zoom in, the wording just become a jumble of boxes.
Unreadable

max, you can't open a PDF from an email attachment?

yeahh i hear what maximus is saying... on the native BB pdf viewer, the overview looks fine but as soon as i zoom in on the page its so blurry i can't read any of the writing. I'm guessing it has something to do with the oiginal resolution of the pdf somehow?

After you zoom in, click enhance from the menu..?

~shayne

thanks shayne... that does help out a lot. still frustrating though that after you enhance the section, you can't scroll to see more at that zoom level. you have to go back, select another spot, and enhance again.

Anyone know if paid pdf viewers are the same? i may have to consider that if there are any inexpensive viewers available.

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For the free trial, BeamBerry is worth you checking out.

This is not a perfect nor permanent solution, but you could convert PDF files into an ebook with the free software from MobiPocket and view it on your BB with their free reader ....................... Did I happen to mention it's FREE .............. and actually works pretty good.

Check it out here -> Blackberry eBook Reader - Download the free Mobipocket eBook Reader software to read on your PDA and Smartphone.

This is of course is only useful if you are at your computer; sorry but I can't help you out with the email side of things.

Here's a another solution if you really need to read a PDF file. You can email the PDF file to your Gmail account and view it as an HTML. It also works faster if your using the Blackberry Gmail App.

Whaaaat?

this sounds like a good solution. but what do you mean you must be near a computer? why wouldnt it work if your traveling with your bb and you are not next to a pc? i though it supposed to convert your pdf file? once you convert the pdf file, cant you just save that file someone on your media card on your bb and then click on to open it up? so why do you need to be close to a pc?

i thought bb doesn't do html email cuz of secuirty reason? did something change recently that all of us are unaware of?

here's another solution you can an email attachment of your pdf file to and adobe will send you a text version via email.

Yes that would be a solution. But most times the conversions are garbage. You could also use . Guess what... this one converts the pdf to an html file.

pdf2html worked great for me, I had a large file....Thanks!!!!!!!

I want Adobe Reader for BB.

I want Adobe Reader for BB!

me too! does know about plans on this?

Assuming you are only interested in the text of the pdf document you can hit menu> "View Text" from the default PDF viewer. This will only show you the text of the document you are viewing. I'm sure most already knew that, but I didn't see anyone mention it... Works for me.

Hi, all. First post on this forum for me.

I, as a brand spankin' new Blackberry user, went to Adobe.com to find out if they had a free .pdf viewer -- which, by the way, would answer the question DallasFlier posed, in that Adobe definitely would have a vested interest. That is exactly why I was so shocked to find that there wasn't an Adobe .pdf viewer for BB, but there was one for several other types of mobile OSes.

I can appreciate all the above responses about large documents and text conversions, etc., but, in my case, I have several other types of .pdf files that I would like to view/save/etc, none of which are 800-page documents, but can be multiple-page, certainly.

It would be nice if I could, from Rove's Mobile File Manager, for example, view a .pdf, because currently I don't seem to be able to. I have some music that I transfer back and forth electronically with other musicians, and I would dearly love to go to my webspace, grab, via FTP, one of the music files by retrieving it directly from the web server and read/save to my device; attach to email; and send it, should the need arise (and it often does) -- all with my BB. Rove is awesome. It would be totally doable on my BB and as easy as on a computer, except for the lack of a .pdf viewer that will work within Rove.

Theoretically, a dedicated .pdf reader would do this seamlessly across all apps.

Meanwhile, the attachment viewer (and thanks for the enhancement tip btw, guys) has been all but impossible for me to view, because, as has been stated, to get it large enough to read puts so many artifacts on there that it's nearly illegible.

I love free, especially after I just plunked down a chunk of change for the BB and several peripherals, but, I guess, if necessary, I can spend a bit more. *sigh*

Any other ideas would be great.
John

There will be a new beta release of RepliGo Reader in the coming weeks. This is a native PDF viewer for BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 and higher. Sign up here: RepliGo Reader for BlackBerry - Native PDF Viewing - Beta

davef, you are my hero. I'm in for a penny, in for a pound on this one. I hope it is all they tout it to be. It will be fun to be a beta tester, too, so I hope I make the cut.

John

Sweet, signed up; thanks for posting.

Nice, signed up. Thanks for the info.

sign up and install the beta...running on curve 8310 os. v.4.5.0.37. before i install this beta..use to have about 17 MB free. after the install the apps, only had about 14 MB free.

open up a couple of pdf from media card, slow as hell (i.e. scrolling from page to page takes about 10-20 seconds). uninstall cuz it was useless to me and time consuming. after the unistall, i still have about 14 MB free. not only this apps is useless, it cuz memory leaks!!!

i know how to recover the free space back and that's by wiping my handheld and reinstalling all the apps again. but i dont want to to that cuz i'm lazy. oh well....

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Repligo beta definitely is not 3mb. If it was, I would have deleted it right away myself. Do you have the new Viigo beta? Perhaps another memory draining program? Something else is going on with your BB. Regardless, I would send a detailed note to the Repligo beta email address that came when you were accepted in the program.

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I've done this to a few ebooks that I've got. Load pdf into mobipocket convertor, save as mobi file and upload. The hundreds of pages become very readable with very few errors and it keeps the front image as the front of the book. You can't do it on the go, but with a little preparation you can have all the books you want to read!

I would still prefer RepliGo Pro over Reader for attachments. An RGP compressed PDF is not only significantly smaller in size, but displays much better w/o the need for font substitution.