On 10/10/06, John Punshon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is an open-source program called pdf2html that you can use if you haven't got adobe professional. Also, I know this is not really plucker related, but there are two different pdf reader programs for palm (one of them open source, the other is commercial dataviz documents-to-go) and a commercial program called repligo that does a really good job of transforming a pdf into its proprietary reader format.
There are three, actually: Adobe released Adobe Reader for PalmOS as well. I don't recommend it. It's big, slow, low res only, and you must convert PDFs on the desktop using Adobe's desktoop component to the form used by the Palm viewer. The main feature is that it attempts to reflow text to fit the PDA screen. How well it does depends on what version of Acrobat created the PDF. It really wants PDFs made by Adobe 5 or later. I have the Dataviz "PDF to Go" program, and Metaview's PalmPDF here. The Dataviz program can fail on some large PDFs. Like Adobe's product, it will try to reformat the output for the PDA display. I looked at it briefly, then uninstalled it. Metaview's product is free and open source, and based on a Palm port of the XPDF library. It is hi-res, and supports 320x480 screens on devices that have them. Most of the viewer can be relocated to an expansion card after installation. It can navigate the file system on a card, and view PDFs whereever you happen to place them. It examines your PDA when it starts up to see what resources are available, and attempts to adjust its rendering mode to what your device will support. If you are stuck with PDFs and can't get the data in Plucker format, PalmPDF is your next best bet. *Highly recommended*. Go here for info and downloads: http://www.metaviewsoft.de/en/Software/PalmOS/Freeware/PalmPDF/index.html ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
