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[Bas van Gils <Bas.vanGils AT cs.ru.nl>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:24:32PM +0000, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > I recently (yesterday) received my Palm (Tungsten). Nice toy, works like a
> > charm. Jpilot does a good job for keeping in sync with the palm. However,
> > today I wanted to upload a PDF file to my palm. No such luck with the 
> > tools
> > I found...
> 
> I haven't been able to get JPilot to install any files.  KPilot, however, 
> works just fine.

Hmm.. Guess I'll have to cast KDE + KPilot some time, then.
 
> You probably don't have it in the correct location.  They need to be in a 
> directory called /PALM/Launcher (I don't think case is sensitive, but 
> that's 
> how it is on my card).  

I did that ....

> Plus, on my Palm, the files were converted from PDF to PDB (which I did on a
> Windows PC), so just copying them may not be enough.

Ah! that's probably the trick then :-) I didn't know that they were converted
to PDB.
 
> It's entirely probable that someone has created a utility to convert PDF
> files in to the Palm PDB format, and then you might be able to just copy
> them over.  I would search SourceForge.net for that.

Thanks for the explanation... I might be a "life saver" :-)


    Bas -rushes of to Google/SourceFore- van Gils



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