> > Now... if I only had a palm-based pdf reader... =)
> Try this: start up Acrobat Reader and shrink the window to 160x160.
Then try
> reading a handful of .pdf documents. That should give you an idea
what it would
> be like to read them on a Palm device. Assuming you could even fit
all the .pdf
> files you wanted on it.
Actually, that's completely the wrong way to go about it. You aren't
locked to 160x160 at all when reading documents. You can have vertical
and
horizontal scrollbars as necessary, and render it "real time" and in
"true"
format (1024x768, if need be). The hard part is getting around the
Adobe
licensing stuff. I have perl source here that makes PDF files on the
fly, I
just need to somehow get a perl interpretor for the palm to get it
into a
testing phase, but from what Larry has mentioned publicly, PalmPerl is
not
too far off. That opens up a WHOLE new realm of programming
possibilities,
since DBI is built in for the most part, and that means all of the
Palm's
databases are open to parsing, formatting, rebuilding, etc.
> A document specifically designed for the smaller screen-size, and that
takes
> into account the fact that you have to store things in just 2 or 4
Megs of RAM
> instead of a multi-gigabyte hard disk is the way to go for now.
A 12-meg Microsoft Word document with images captured into the
document
renders into about a 50k document when converted to PDF format. You be
the
judge...
