Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Plantersville, TX, USA
Posts: 109

I have scoured the net and now have over 300 megs of text files to peruse on my waiting visor... hehe... Unfortunately a lot of them are in Adobe's pdf format... any way around this? ie: convert pdf to doc then to teal and such?

Zen

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posts: 4

There are a number of conversion paths, but they depend on whether you just have the Acrobat Reader or the full Acrobat product. However, without the full Acrobat you are rather limited.

Easiest is to use pdf2doc (freeware plugin for the full Acrobat). http://www.zorglub.com/pilot/pdf2doc/pdf2doc.html. Not to sure how well it works with TealDoc though.

Or use BCL's free web service to convert the PDFs into a more useful form, RTF, HTML etc. http://www.gohtm.com, which can then be transformed to a doc format.

Or print to postscript and use a ps2html conversion engine.

Or use Acrobat Reader's text selection capabilities and painstakingly cut-n-paste and use something like txt2pdbdoc.

May be worth looking at http://www.planetpdf.com and http://www.pdfzone.com for other options.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posts: 4

May also want to look at Backupbuddy's InstallBuddy (http://www.backupbuddy.com), which now has a PDF->DOC conversion path, which claims to not require any other PDF software including Acrobat.

However, I have no idea whether it works with the Visor.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA
Posts: 1

The InstallBuddy PDF to DOC translator has been working fine for me. The resulting PDB files can be hotsync'd to any Palm or Visor PDA.

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