Melanie Campbell wrote:
I am still trying to figure how to continue using my palm as my laptop -
I really just need to have working ability for a word processor.
I used to use Docs to Go with Word - but now I am on Linux using
OpenOffice. I got the trial for Softick Card Export - so I can transfer
files from my sd card on my Palm Zire 31.
I know that OpenOffice can "save as" .pdb - but it doesn't seem to open
the files and it seems like all the palm word processors save as .pdb.
Has any discovered a way to deal with this?
/All/ PalmOS data files are named *.pdb on the Windows or MacOS backup.
PalmOS distinguishes among them by their content (like Unix "magic
numbers", but more formalized). The *.pdb file produced by OOo is
specifically for a Palm program called AportisDoc. Unfortunately,
AportisDoc is dead, dead, dead. It is still possible to get your hands
on the freeware version if you look hard enough, but the freeware
version is only a reader.
The eReader program that came free on my new Treo 650 can read
AportisDoc documents.
I am far from an expert, but I don't know of any available AportisDoc
read/write program except the original abandonware, and, except for the
free reader version, they are all date-locked, even if you can find them.
There are also quite a few yucky points in the OOo-AportisDoc
conversion, anyway.
The current recommendation for OOo-Palm interoperability appears to be
to use *.doc with Documents To Go. The results are not altogether
satisfactory with heavyweight use of OOo as a desktop publisher, but
it's OK for more basic stuff (like standard ms. format).
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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