>-----Original Message----- >From: Edward Rayl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:13 AM >To: MJ Ray >Cc: Dennis McCunney; 'Plucker General List' >Subject: Re: Handling big images in Plucker
>>MJ Ray wrote: >>Dennis: >>>I pointed it at a URL with a PDF, it thought a bit, then >>>offered to DL pdf2pl to me. I did so, but Pilot Install >>>complained that the file wasn't a recognized format, and >>>didn't sync it.Is this an issue with Pilot Install, the >>>conversion, or the source PDF? >> >>I think I remember hearing that IE is stupid and wants to >>call the file thename of the script. The obvious way round >>it on the website's part would beto redirect to a path called >>.../pdf2pl.cgi/pdfpluck.pdb or similar, which should cure it. >>Alternatively, just rename the file you get to something.pdb >>and sync that.Caveat: I've not tried the above. ;-) > >I got the same results as well. The file when downloaded was >a ZIP archive. It's a Zip archive? Hmmm. I just renamed the file to a .zip extension and tried to open it, and WinZip 8.0 complained it wasn't a valid archive. >I extracted the pdb file from it and it worked fine. Only >problem is that ALL graphics are stripped from the resulting >document. Depending upon the PDF, I might not care, but if I _don't_, I'll use the AportisDoc PDF Converter installed locally, which does the same thing. If I _do_ care about graphics, I'll convert it with Adobe's Acrobat for PalmOS desktop. That does preserve the graphics, as long as you have Acrobat Reader for PalmOS on your PDA. The problem is that's _huge_, and performance is sluggish even on a Visor Pro with the higher speed CPU. ______ Dennis
