When Windows Phone 7 was first released, Adobe provided an extremely basic Acrobat Reader in the marketplace just so people could view PDFs on the new phone. It was a very slow and feature-lacking PDF reader, but at least it worked. Today, the new Adobe Acrobat Reader X is available on Windows Phone. You’ll notice a new design and a couple extra options including continuous/single page view, document search, and a “recently viewed” documents pane. Zooming performance and panning seems improved, but if you’ve got a heafty PDF, it still has to take some time to re-render the graphics at each zoom level.
Disappointingly, the extremely useful features such as being able to email a PDF to some one else or upload them to SkyDrive or pinning PDFs to the start screen are still completely absent.
Originally published on Pocketnow on September 8, 2012. More from the Pocketnow archive.