Hello,
So basically, when you see the application showing the device logo on the files, they are either pre-saved in some location. If not, you will need to save them locally to locate them in your downloads folder.
Acrobat Reader Mobile does not save any file internally; it just creates an image of the file for you to view correctly.
Let me know if this answers your question.
Thanks,
Souvik.
By @S. S
There is nothing "basic" about any of the stated.
"So basically, when you see the application showing the device logo on the files, they are either pre-saved in some location."
Can you offer a visual example of this? Take a screenshot and show it to us. As we all know, apps keep changing their appearance. What you stated here in July might as well have changed already by December. I no longer use Adobe Reader for Android so I cannot check this. But I see that the app has changed its name actually! That speaks in favor of my point about appearance. Not only do they change appearance, they also change their name. It's now called "Adobe Acrobat Reader: Edit PDF". For some reason... it has received the epithet "Edit PDF", but I bet you still can't actually "edit" a PDF file unless you pay a premium for that and get one of those Adobe Acrobat subscriptions!
What do you even mean by "device logo on the files"? What logo? Adobe logo? PDF logo? On what files?
What do you mean by "pre-saved"? Why do you say "in some location"? What location is that? Educate us please. You don't "pre-save" something to "some location" and pretend like you don't know exactly where that is (it's within the app folder!).
"If not, you will need to save them locally to locate them in your downloads folder."
You mean if not "pre-saved"? So if the file is "pre-saved" by the app (!) it will have a "device logo" and it will be saved to "some location" (supposedly unknown location). If the file is "saved locally" by me (!), it will be located in the Downloads folder. Both operations imply saving "locally". Saving locally is just a fancy jargon word for "save here", on the device that's being used to perform the operation, rathar than to some network connected device.
But by the very definition, if it's "pre-saved", then as a user, I don't have a choice! Do I? Because Adobe thinks it knows better.
This "we know better" behavior is not unique for Adobe. Many software companies think they know better than users that use their softare, as if they can read the user's mind or something. It's often portrayed as something beneficial to the user. It "saves you time", it "makes your life easier", it "makes the app x times faster", and whatnot. But what is really at play here is taking away controls from the user and putting it in the hands of the company, and in general, just making people more stupid. Next thing you know, they want to take away our free thinking, have them do all the thinking for us, and we can merely serve to pay the bills.
This makes me wonder what you think saving a file means. What is your idea of saving a file? Have you never saved a file form the web to a computer?
Thankfully I was born before mobile phones existed, and my first mobile phone was a dumbphone, and I know what it means to save a file. This was before this app craze and "smartphones" took over the world. Adobe needs to stop doing me this favor of making my life supposedly easier by "pre-saving" my files. I will save my files wherever I want on my device. I don't need your "pre-saving" to intuitively know what I want and where I want it.
"Acrobat Reader Mobile does not save any file internally; it just creates an image of the file for you to view correctly."
Correctly? Wow! So this is the "it's not me, it's you" routine. As users, we don't know how to save files, we're too dumb to complete the task on our own. This is exactly the point I made above about companies wanting to present themselves as being better suited to do the thinking for us. We, the simple people, the consumers, the users... we don't want to think. We are no leaders. We hate thinking. We are much better off if someone else thinks for us, decides for us, and does just about everything for us. We're not capable of anything, least of all free thinking and having an opinion of our own.
Why do you say it "does not save any file internally"? What do you think "internally" means then? What do you think the app does when it "pre-saves" a file? If a file is saved "internally", it ought to mean that it's saved in such a way that it's easily accessible to the app in question: it becomes part of it's internal data store, a part of app data. This is also where you find these PDF files in Android: data/com.adobe.reader. Take note of "data" in the search path.
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