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Re: Pdf files downloaded by e-mail dont work

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From: Dwight_Arthur
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:52
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Adobe PDF Reader for Palm exists but is useless. As mentioned above, Adobe apears to believe that a handheld is a peripheral for a desktop, so the Adobe reader for PALM requires re-formatting the PDF into a special palm-only format on the desktop before moving it to the Palm device. If the only way PDFs got to your handheld was via hotsync, this would maybe be ok, however PDFs that arrive via email or browser are unusable this way.

The dataviz PDF reader bundled into Documents-to-go is what you are looking for. It is just a reader, very little in the way of bells and whistles. In fact, if the PDF is created with restrictions like "do not modify" the dataviz product will not even read it. But for unrestricted PDFs this product allows you to view the PDF, full page or zoomed in. There is no PDF creation software here, just a reader. The only difference (other than the wimpy handling of restricted PDFs) between this product and the straight Reader that Adobe -should- have provided for Palm, is that Reader is free and you have to pay for Documents-to-go.
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