Re: [coldsync-hackers] file upload/download

[Christophe Beauregard <christophe dot beauregard at sympatico.ca>]

On Sunday 27 June 2004 01:33, Andrew Noga wrote:
> can i upload PDF file into palm device using coldsync ?

Not directly.

Even the Adobe PDF reader for the Palm 
(http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforpalm.html) requires a 
special conduit to reformat documents for the device. I suppose you could 
install the PDF directly on to a card using a card reader, but I wouldn't 
count on the reader software to be able to handle it as-is. As far as I 
know, no such PDF to Palm PDF conduit is available other than for Windows.

Did you want to convert PDF to some other Palm document reader format? There 
still needs to be some pre-processing before it's something installable. I 
wrote a perl script (palmify) to do this sort of thing (using pdftotext and 
writing to the Palm Doc format), 
http://www3.sympatico.ca/lou.latendresse/coldsync/palmify, but it will lose 
a lot of PDF features like graphics. The script is also designed to work in 
a KDE environment, so it might not help you.

c.
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