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Old 08-14-2005, 10:02 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Chaos
You may have some luck looking at Ghostscript, but I haven't really done much with it myself.
Wasn't sure what you meant, but when I looked at the previous thread that Alex pointed to, I found this, which is actually an explanation of how I set up a GUI interface to Ghostscript and PDFtoHTML which converts from, as expected, PDF to HTML.

I didn't do a lot of testing with it, but I did discover that it didn't do well with the Pimlico DateBk5 manual when I converted it and then iSiloX'd it. Text was okay, but I needed the images to make sense of it. And if I remember right, I may have had some issues even with text only, but can't remember.

Repligo shows the document well, but you either have reflow with text only, and you can't see where images are missing (useless for the DateBk5 manual), or you have to drag the picture around the screen which is really annoying on a tiny screen.

I wonder if the full Adobe Acrobat 6 or Gemini could handle that document decently for Palm viewing?

Maybe Repligo is the best solution for non image-critical docs (it's inexpensive, simple out-of-the-box, supported, and it works on any document you can print also!)

I might try Acrobat for PalmOS again, but with only 22 total RAM on my Treo650, and only 12meg free right now even being stingy, I'm hesitant to lose another large chunk of memory. Oh my, scratch that last thought! I seem to have been wrong and it's not nearly as bloated as I thought... according to the Adobe faq for PalmOS Adobe Reader, it only needs 600K, and it can read files on a storage card. So I'll give the Adobe reader for Palm another try. It is upgraded from the last version I used (v2), but doesn't seem real recent. For example, it's based on Adobe Reader 6 not 7, but that might actually be a plus. We'll see what happens.
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