Read PDF files on your handheldAdobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably the de facto format for distributing electronic documents. If you've bought a computer-related product recently, you may have noticed that you can find an electronic copy of the User's Manual in PDF format on the CD-ROM that shipped with your device. You may also have come across some articles or ebooks on the Internet in PDF format. With Acrobat Reader installed on your PC, you can read these PDF documents just as they would appear in print, with pictures and formatting intact. The only problem is that to read PDF files, you either have to read them on your PC, thus tying you down in front of your computer screen, or print them out. However, the latter is certainly not a very attractive idea if the PDF document is hundreds of pages long. Won't it be great if we can load our PDF documents on our handhelds and carry them with us wherever we go? Sure you can! And depending on what kind of format you prefer, there're different ways you can do it.
What you see is what you get For the Palm OS version, you can read your PDF files on your PDA with the images and graphs intact. If your PDF files are tagged Adobe PDF files generated in Adobe Acrobat 5.0, Adobe PageMaker 7.0, or Adobe InDesign® 2.0, the content in the file will be formated in such a way that it'll fit your PDA's small screen. However, before you place the PDF files on your Palm, you'll need to convert them into something your Palm will recognize. Using the included desktop app, you simply select the PDF files you want to sync to your Palm, and these files will be installed during your next HotSync. The Pocket PC version works in a similar way. But unlike the Palm version, after installing the Acrobat Reader on your Pocket PC, all you need to do is drag and drop the PDF files into the Mobile Device folder on your PC's desktop. |
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