Final week I posted a evaluate of the Boox Go 10.3, and I wished to submit a secondary evaluate displaying among the options which are accessible with regards to studying PDFs, in order that’s what this text is for, nevertheless it additionally applies to Onyx’s different eNotes, not simply the Boox Go 10.3.
This additionally applies to Onyx’s smaller gadgets like Boox Go Coloration 7 to some extent since all of them have the identical Neo Reader app, however the smaller 6″ and seven″ fashions don’t assist utilizing a stylus for notetaking or the cut up display screen options. However a lot of the different options are the identical.
The built-in studying app on Onyx’s gadgets is named NeoReader V3.0. It assist a variety of codecs, together with PDFs.
When studying PDFs, totally different options can be found than when studying common ebooks. There’s additionally a PDF Settings menu accessible from inside Neo Reader with some PDF-specific settings (launch the app, hit the Extra button on the higher proper menu, the go to Settings > PDF Settings).
Neo Reader PDF Options
Crop – Cropping works effectively to reduce margins on PDFs. There are match to display screen and match to width presets, and you too can set a customized crop zone manually.
Zoom – You’ll be able to zoom in on PDFs in increments, or use a customized zoom setting, and there’s additionally pinch-zooming, which will be turned on and off. Works finest with Web page Show set to scrolling view.
Multi-column PDFs – There’s an oddly-named “Article Mode” function beneath the Navigation tab the place you possibly can setup totally different customized crop zones for multi-column PDFs, and you may set the way in which it can web page ahead to observe the columns of a PDF.
Web page Show – The app helps each single web page view (default) and scrolling view. With scrolling enabled you possibly can scroll up and down from web page to web page such as you would on a pc.
Navigation – You’ll be able to navigate PDFs by utilizing the desk of contents, you possibly can leap to particular pages and leap from chapters utilizing the Progress tab from the menu. There’s additionally multi-page view (1, 4, 9 pages) to scan by way of a PDF. There’s an auto-page function as effectively to robotically flip pages.
Notes and Highlights – With Onyx’s stylus-supporting fashions, you possibly can write immediately on PDFs, and you may even add clean pages to PDFs for writing notes. The notes will be exported as a PNG or PDF. The app additionally helps including multicolored highlights, and there are three totally different kinds for underlining as effectively.
Break up Display – The bigger Boox fashions assist cut up display screen so you possibly can have two totally different (or the identical) PDF information open side-by-side. You may also have a PDF open on one facet and a notepad open on the opposite, and it really works with typed notes as effectively if you wish to use a keyboard.
A number of Paperwork – The Neo Reader app can have as much as 4 paperwork open at one time with tabs displaying on the highest menu to shortly leap between them (this function appears to solely be accessible on bigger fashions).
Distinction Adjustment – The app helps some distinction settings for PDFs. There’s a boldness setting, picture sharpness, watermark bleaching, darkish colour enhancement, and picture smoothing.
Reflow – The Neo Reader app has some reflow and OCR options to transform scanned and text-based PDFs to look extra like common ebooks, with adjustable structure and font sizes.
Misc – There are a bunch of different options as effectively, like search, dictionary lookup, bookmarks, copy and paste, share, sync, translate, text-to-speech, there are some AI options, and the menu bars and various settings are consumer configurable.
Onyx Boox PDF Options Video Assessment
