I have written a plugin to Acrobat that will take the curently open PDF
file and allow you to convert it (or a range of pages) to the Palm Doc
format. On the web page there is also a list of free and commercial doc
readers. The conversion is not yet perfect (line breaks are the problem)
but you can click on "review text before converting" and it will show you
the text in Notepad (or the configured text editor) where you can make
minor changes before the conversion takes place.
The plugin is free but it only works for the full Acrobat product (not the
free reader). If you are using the free reader then I suggest you download
the Acrobat access plugin (http://access.adobe.com) and then a utility to
convert text to Doc (http://www.memoware.com/mw-helpm.htm).
I think this is the correct way to go, writing a PDF interpreter for the
Palm platform would be pretty hard and would waste resources because what
you want most of the time is just the text. And I am saying this because I
have extensive experience of working with PDF at a programming level.
Chris
At 10:31 AM 6/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
> I have an odd request: How hard would it be to create a PDF reader
>for the PalmOS? I understand the rendering would be a difficult thing on
>the processor, but I have a direct need to get some very basic text-based
>PDF files rendered onto the Palm.
>
> Any ideas? I have some perl code that can generate PDF files on
>the fly, and some other open code I can use, but I wonder if it's possible
>to make a reader for the Palm.
>
>
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