Thanks for the responses everybody - at the moment using the converter above pdf viewer seems to work as well as i need it to.
With regard to the connection issue - maybe i should just remove my username from the illiads settings as my password/email details are exactly the same both on that and irexs site but it still tells me my user/pass details are wrong. I'll givei t a shot.
Love it already btw - its freaky seeing a screen which just looks like paper