Optimized Office Applications

[etern1ty]

Are there any actual smooth office applications that dont take too long to load larger files like pdfs, or word docs with a lot of images? Running the rooted stock JB 4.1.1 its sorta saddening when this beast lags trying to pan across a pdf document considering the power it has under the hood. I've tried nearly every office app on the playstore and the suggestions from people on different threads and none really satisfied what i was looking for. CloudOn also isnt compatible with my device according to the playstore :/

 

[slack04]

Are there any actual smooth office applications that dont take too long to load larger files like pdfs, or word docs with a lot of images? Running the rooted stock JB 4.1.1 its sorta saddening when this beast lags trying to pan across a pdf document considering the power it has under the hood. I've tried nearly every office app on the playstore and the suggestions from people on different threads and none really satisfied what i was looking for. CloudOn also isnt compatible with my device according to the playstore :/

unfortunately, that's going to be the case until they come up with a better format than PDF (which is literally over 20 years old; evolved but not much...). Your best bet is to 1) reduce the quality of the PDF (usually flattens the images) or 2) convert them to Word files. Even updating PDFs to a newer version (Adobe 10 compatible) can be a bit better, but not perfect.

Even on my laptop with core I3 and discrete graphics I'll still lag sometimes on larger PDFs.

 

[kboya]

I agree with slack04, it's less about the client and more with the format. That said, I've used Kingsoft office on HTC Desire and Nexus S and found it to be not only free, but the best at opening pdfs and word docs. I don't tend to create much on it, as I use it to scan dl'd academic papers before transferring to pc/printer, but I know you can edit word etc. Also, I know it's available fr the N7, but I havent as yet bothered to dl'd it. Maybe you've already tried it? I'd think that optimised apps will appear shortly, but there are very few at this point

 

[etern1ty]

thanks for the replies. Are there are any recommended formats for converting to from pdf? I settled on smartoffice over all the others i tried(including kingsoft, i found it to be the most smooth on my N7, loaded everything the best and was pleasant to use (for word, excel and ppt). Im trialing ezpdf atm which works pretty well, im also trying mantano reader for pdfs which works pretty well for larger pdfs (1100 page full image pdfs - uni text books etc). If theres others looking to try some, see what they think of these

EDIT: mantano also allows pretty nice annotation of pdfs/books aswell as bookmarks etc. pretty handy!