Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 29

So far have not cared a bit about the whole upgradable os stuff.

But i have to say that i am perplexed at the fact that palm will incorp. adobe into its os in the future. this opens up a huge door in loading anything you can save as an adobe file in to you handheld.

i hope that handspring can get a patch program to allow us that are with palm 3.1h to take advantage of this.

but maybe by that time apple will have its "ipalm" out w/springboard and i'll just up grade to that.

[This message has been edited by DMcH (edited 02-10-2000).]

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 71

PDF's that would have any more functionality than a standard DOC file are guaranteed to be BIG and SLOW to render. Don't worry too much about this as I figure it won't be till the next generation of hardware/OS before it's a realization. Until then, there is an online service (the name escapes me) that will take a .pdf from any url you specify, and (crudely) convert it to .html. You could then massage that into a Richreader file.

-Doug

Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 20

There are currently a few free conversion tools available for UN*X systems that will convert pdf to just about anything you could want. You have to pass through a few intermediares before reaching a pdb but I have used them for converting some text pdf to the visor. If anyone is using a UN*X system the files are available with the xpdf viewer.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Simi Valley, CA
Posts: 110

Intallbuddy now converts pdf files to Palm DOC format which can then be viewed by any DOC reader. You do lose images in the transfer, however.

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Joe V. - Simi Valley, CA