Re: [NTLK] pdf for Newton?

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> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:11:34 -0500
> From: "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_comcast.net>
>
> Actually, there might be a third alternative. What if there were an
> "engine" on a website somewhere that you fed the URL of a PDF file, and it
> either converts it to NewtonBook or HTML? (I'm thinking that if it's done
> right, Palm users would access it too, but you could try and charge them in
> order to fund it and leave it free for Newt users. :-) )

this has been around for awhile.

    http://access.adobe.com/onlinetools.html

you submit a URL via email or a web form
and get back text or HTML.
(not a perfect conversion, but good enough for most simple docs I'd think)

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