Ooops, forgot to include the url of the plugin in question:
http://www.zorglub.com/pilot/pdf2doc/pdf2doc.html
Chris
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:49:04 +0200
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Vandendorpe)
>Subject: Re: PDF reader for the PalmOS
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>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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>Christian Vandendorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>http://www.zorglub.com
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Christian Vandendorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.zorglub.com
