Zotero android, allow opening PDF with external app

dbonatto
edited October 10, 2024
Please, allow to open the pdf with an external app. Even if I can't save annotations etc.. The current viewer offer a very bad experience.

In particular, the phone locks when a pdf in on the screen, this is extremely annoying when reading.

The zoom levels are pretty bad.
  • dstillman
    Obviously our work is going to go into improving the built-in reader, since the entire goal is to provide a seamless reading and annotation experience.
    In particular, the phone locks when a pdf in on the screen, this is extremely annoying when reading.
    What exactly do you mean by this? What hardware and Android version?
    The zoom levels are pretty bad.
    Say more?
  • dbonatto
    edited October 10, 2024
    Ui: One UI 6.0 (Samsung)
    Android 14
    Samsung galaxy A53

    I open a pdf, if I do not touch the screen, it turns black then lock, as if the application was not running and the automatic lock started at its due time.

    I guess the pdf reader is not set as 'keep the screen on while open'


    For the zoom levels: I have some pdf with huge empty margin, often when I double click it zooms into the text and skip the margins. If it's in 2 column format, it correctly zoom on one column. This work when it's text, but when I have formulas in the page, it exagerztingly zoom into the formula, even if the formula is not visible in its entirety.

    Finally, I can't easily search the text and there is no way to jump to a page number.
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