Final week I posted a evaluation of the Boox Go 10.3, and I needed to put up a secondary evaluation exhibiting a few of the options which are obtainable in terms of studying PDFs, in order that’s what this text is for, but it surely 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 Shade 7 to some extent since all of them have the identical Neo Reader app, however the smaller 6″ and seven″ fashions don’t help utilizing a stylus for notetaking or the break up display options. However many of the different options are the identical.
The built-in studying app on Onyx’s gadgets is named NeoReader V3.0. It help 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 obtainable 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 and match to width presets, and it’s also possible to set a customized crop zone manually.
Zoom – You may zoom in on PDFs in increments, or use a customized zoom setting, and there’s additionally pinch-zooming, which may 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” characteristic underneath the Navigation tab the place you’ll be able to setup totally different customized crop zones for multi-column PDFs, and you’ll set the best way it’s going to 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’ll be able to scroll up and down from web page to web page such as you would on a pc.
Navigation – You may navigate PDFs by utilizing the desk of contents, you’ll be able to bounce to particular pages and bounce from chapters utilizing the Progress tab from the menu. There’s additionally multi-page view (1, 4, 9 pages) to scan by means of a PDF. There’s an auto-page characteristic as effectively to mechanically flip pages.
Notes and Highlights – With Onyx’s stylus-supporting fashions, you’ll be able to write straight on PDFs, and you’ll even add clean pages to PDFs for writing notes. The notes may 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 help break up display so you’ll be able to have two totally different (or the identical) PDF information open side-by-side. You can even 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 exhibiting on the highest menu to rapidly bounce between them (this characteristic appears to solely be obtainable 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 format 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 plenty of settings are consumer configurable.
Onyx Boox PDF Options Video Overview
