By comparison, the free version of QuickOffice's PDF reader that comes preinstalled on the Nexus One is just 36KB.

This may not seem like a big deal, but it can be annoying when trying to peruse a large document that requires a lot of zooming around media-rich PDFs seemed to aggravate this.Īdobe Reader is a bit heavy for an app of this type. The real downer is the lag that occurs when zooming, as it takes the software a second or two to rerender the text and images. This would make it difficult to pinpoint a specific part of a document by sight, but for most other reading tasks it does just fine. Part of the reason for that is that the software only renders around four pages of a long document at a time, and will load in the rest when you stop.

A 12MB, picture-rich PDF file we had downloaded in Android's stock browser opened up in just four seconds and zipped around like butter on a hot pan. We found it to work quite well, even on large files. It packs in multitouch gestures for zooming, landscape orientation, and a tool that will resize the text on wide documents to fit your phone's narrow screen. Adobe's PDF Reader predictably lets Android owners quickly open PDFs that they've downloaded from a browser or have received in e-mail attachments.

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