From: Luiz Petroni (lpetroni_at_compassoarte.com.br)
Date: Tue Mar 30 2004 - 14:28:42 PST
> The one problem with PDF format is it is HUGE in comparison to plain
> text or
> Newton Books.
PDFs created in the right way are usually small and can be downloaded
on demand (if server supports).
Don't know how the compare in size with newton books.
> There is a plugin in at http//:www.tinystocks.com (at lesat
> I think that is the link) for Acrobat that allows you to export a PDF
> to
> plain text. But you need the full version of Acrobat not the reader
> for it
> to work.
AMOF the free Reader 6 can export as plain text by default (if the PDF
security was set to let one export the contents of the file).
> Even if a PDF reader for the newon was available I probably would
> not bother with it unless it was fast and a way could be found to
> really
> compress it down.
The problem here is that any file (.pdf, .doc, .jpg, .html) that will
be read on a PDA should be created with a PDA screen in mind. The
original file should be tagged and had it's images compressed/resized
prior to the PDF export. Even Adobe's Palm PDF Reader's
> And I suspect that a reader would be slow and the PDFs would be huge.
Running in a newton probably, but I tested some tagged PDFs with images
with old Palms that usually rendered/reflowed acceptably.
> Also some PDF's don't allow you to select text and copy/paste it.
For security reason I guess.
--lpetroni
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