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Re: Opening .pdf files in VersaMail

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From: Mark_Dunbar
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:43
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I just got a new Sprint Treo 600. Not having used a palm device, I was surprised to find that it can't read .pdf attachments to emails, at least not without synching it to the desktop. I have a hard time imagining why anyone would want to transfer .pdf files to a handheld to read.

Since I use e-fax to send all my faxes to e-mail as attached .pdf files, this is a major setback to my hopes for a handheld system that would free me from the office. While I don't expect to be able to read them perfectly, I was hoping the handheld's screen would enable me to see enough of the document to get a sufficient gist of the communication to reply or to know how urgent it is to my full computer to download the emailed fax. I have to imagine there are alot of people who would find such a system for integrating phone/email/fax quite useful.

Obviously, I can query whether e-fax has plans to offer Adobe .pdb as an attachment option (currently only offer .pdf and .tif), but--even if this happened, this isn't going to solve the problem, albeit infrequent for me, where the .pdf comes from someone other than e-fax.
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