Read pdf on pda

Unless its an e-book you are reading the text would likely contain tables and figures which would be best viewed with the native adobe pdf client. Here's a pdf of the lifedrive on my VGA pocketpc. Last edited by surur; at PM. Adobe Acrobat Pro does the best job, of course, but at a nasty price tag.

Documents-to-go only converts the text. However, it does a good job of it. No thanks. The Palm Adobe reader does a good job, but you have to convert it first on the desktop. Also, the reader seems rather crash-prone. Picsel Browser if you can snag a shady copy of it does an excellent job of reading native PDFs without conversion, but it does not reformat them for your screen. So, you'll be doing a lot of panning and zooming to read the article. However, it works nice and fast.

A pity that Sony has them locked-down to exclusive licensing. Jeez, we are buried by numerous graphical viewers that support a dizzying array of formats. I constantly see shouts for a native PDF viewer, yet the developers are silent.

Is there some sort of licensing restriction I'm not aware of? You'd think that someone would have made use of the ghostscript or pdfx code by now. I love when people use XML on the web note: XML has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the web , and then don't produce valid content from it for browsers.

There's only errors on that first page. Another thought: If content providers want you to be able to view their content on your mobile device, they should produce it in a format that is suitable for that device. Hint: PDF is not that format. By voicing your opinion to these content providers in an intelligent, lucid fashion , you can change their minds. For those that do not wish to adapt to suit their customer's needs, go elsewhere.

There are plenty of other vendors who would be happy to help you in exchange for your sale, of course. If we keep coming up with workarounds, converters, and bass-ackward solutions to getting a PDF document on a Palm device, we don't give the content provider any reason to change their broken behavior.

While this is fine for desktop users, what about users on the go? It is important to note that the reader doesn't work like the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader. Figure A Opening the reader. Figure C Setting preferences. Compress PDF. PDF Converter.

PDF Scanner. Split PDF. Merge PDF. Edit PDF. PDF Reader. Number Pages. If you're lucky the "Outline PocketXpdf supports 5 slots for bookmarks which is too few in my opinion.

Bookmarking is quite easy, just select a slot in the Save submenu of Bookmarks in the File menu and that's it. The filename and the page number of the PDF not the actual page number displayed on the page itself are recorded. Note that if the filename is too long to fit in the slot, only a part of the filename is displayed and the page number is omitted.

Loading a bookmark makes PocketXpdf load the right file and jumping to the right page.