How to open PDF files in your Nokia Asha

Portable Document Format, popularly known as PDF documents, is a file format developed by Adobe Systems. It looks like a printed document and can be viewed in Adobe Reader, a free application from Adobe Systems itself. PDF files are especially useful for documents such as magazine articles, product brochures, or flyers in which you want to preserve the original graphic appearance.

Now PDF readers are available for smartphones as well. You can completely view and edit any PDF file if you are on the go. Adobe Reader is also officially available for all major mobile operating systems including Andriod, Windows Phone, iOS, Symbian etc. But if you are using a series 40 based phone(like a Nokia Asha phone), there are no efficient PDF readers available yet. Although there are apps like eZReader, mobilePDF, PDF Viewer, RJ PDF Reader etc available for download, these apps can’t load files greater than 1MB, also they dont even get opened in the new Nokia Asha Platform(they never worked for me). While surfing internet with our mobile, at some point of time, we might have encountered with a PDF file and wondered how to open it. Like the invoice we receive from Flipkart after a purchase or the phone’s user guide or a novel. So here are some tutorials on how to read PDF files in your phone apart from using a mobile PDF reader.

Using an E-Book reader

Albite Reader is actually a mobile Ebook reader for java mobiles developed by Svetlin Ankov, that supports .txt, .epub files. To read PDF files in this Ebook reader, you need to convert it to .epub format. There won’t be any images in the converted file, but this is the best way for reading novels and stories in your mobile. Don’t worry about the conversion part as you don’t need any PC for that, you can convert it online instead. PDFPOCKET is a free online service that helps you convert PDF to EPUB online. After the download, you can open the file in Albite Reader and enjoy.
Try some PDF novels from here, convert it and read in Albite reader[ DOWNLOAD ]

Read PDF files online

InvokeVirtual now allows to read PDF files online in your mobile browser. They also provide other services including removing ads, extract .zip files, .rar files read .doc(x) files etc. You can read your pdf file online with InvokeVirtual. Visit here.

Convert PDF to Images

If you still prefer to read your file without loosing the images, you can download each page as an image so that you can simply open it in your phone’s gallery and zoom in to read. The only drawback is that large pdf files will be hundreds of images to download. Visit here to convert your files.

Open in your Gmail account

Gmail also provides an option to view PDF in your mobile browser. Upload the file to your account or send the PDF file from another account to your account. You can find a ‘View Html’ option at the bottom of the mail, beside the download option. This will do the trick. But as this is a basic html view, there won’t be any images shown.

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