Where these conversions would be really handy is
in the realm of e-books. Many companies are
selling ebooks in multiple formats now, one of
them being PDF. It would be great to get these
ebooks into my Newt. I don't want to pirate or
redistribute these books -- I'd buy one copy,
translate it to ASCII or RTF, press it into a
NewtonBook, and read it.
Unfortunately, there is a PDF characteristic that
prevents it from being converted via Adobe's
conversion engine (or any others I've seen).
Most ebook publishers activate this
characteristic.
<sigh>
Any chance of a real PDF viewer for Newt? No? I
thought not. Any chance of a PeanutPress,
EBookman, PalmDoc, or Microsoft Reader viewers?
I love my Newt, but this, for me (combined with
Paul's ATA driver) would be a real killer app,
making my baby even more indispensable.
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