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07-26-2004, 12:07 PM
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#1 | | Crazy Bass Player
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Mattawamkeag
Posts: 148
 | Converting PDF to palm eBook
I have a bunch of eBooks that are in the pdf format. However, it's a pain the the bum to try to navigate through pdf pages on my TJ37.
I'm running mac os x, and I was wondering if there's a program or something I can use to convert the pdf books into something that can be read by eReader, or some other palm reader program.
I tried a couple programs, but they reformatted the paragraphs and skipped every few lines, and generally made it just as horrible to read.
Any help is greatly appreciated. | 
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07-26-2004, 12:34 PM
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#2 | | Errare Humanum Est
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Mauritius
Posts: 866
| Tried AportisDoc converter and pdf2doc, but I got terrible results. I found the best conversion is done by Docs2Go, but the file is 3x bigger. The file can only be read with DataViz Docs2Go.
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07-26-2004, 04:59 PM
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#3 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Beam Me Up, Scotty
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| Try Picsel Viewer. | |
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07-26-2004, 05:23 PM
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#4 | | Registered User
Join Date: May 2002 Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 72
| I usually convert my ebooks to text files then html and finally iSilo. It's tedious but it works.
I have been meaning to try out the PDF converter software by scansoft, but have not gotten around to it. | |
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07-26-2004, 08:17 PM
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#5 | | Crazy Bass Player
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Mattawamkeag
Posts: 148
| I tried pixel viewer. It's slow, and hard to read cause you can't just scroll down, you have to zoom in and then move the page around to read the whole thing. It basically sucks. | |
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07-26-2004, 08:21 PM
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#6 | | Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 60
| Repligo by Cerience | |
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07-26-2004, 08:34 PM
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#7 | | Crazy Bass Player
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Mattawamkeag
Posts: 148
| I couldn't find AportisDoc, and pdf2doc sucked. also, there is no mac version of Repligo. thanks though | |
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07-27-2004, 05:52 AM
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#8 | | Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Some place in Utah
Posts: 274
| Yes.. Repligo...
Anything I need to carry that's a PDF I convert with Repligo..Not perfect.. But the best thing I have come accross..(amd I have several books I carry in that format.)
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07-27-2004, 09:26 AM
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#9 | | ?
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Germany
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| You might want to have a look at http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ It's a actually a Linux program, however it should compile without any problems under OS X as it's only a console application. The output quality is great when using the complex document option (It's really indistiguishable from the real thing) And the simple version outputs a nice flowed version, nicely suited for ebooks.
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08-02-2004, 06:23 PM
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#10 | | NX80v User
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide
Posts: 921
| I`ve used pdftohtml a fair bit and found it to work well.
As long as the pdf pages are actual text, not a scanned image of text.
If its text, and not protected you could also use acrobat reader to copy n paste into a text document, and then convert that to palmdoc. | |
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08-06-2004, 01:27 PM
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#11 | | I'm a Palm Addict
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Roswell, GA
Posts: 273
| I've done this a ton of times. I don't know about MAC, though. I just:
1: open the PDF file,
2: File->"Export document to text," (Acrobat 5) OR "Save as Text" (Acrobat 6)
3: Convert the resultant .txt file to .pdb format using either DropBook (PalmReader format) or MakeDocW (DOC format).
It's this last step, and the programs, that I don't know whether they can be had on the MAC or not. If not, just save a bunch of .txt files on floppy, along with MakeDocW (it's just under 400K), and take this to a friends that has a Windows machine.
Tom
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09-01-2004, 11:56 AM
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#12 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: VA
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| What I have been doing is using a little-known free program of Adobe's that converts
PDFs to html, online and for free. Right here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrob...imple_form.html
If you do decide to use the "Advanced Form" make sure you DO NOT
check off the "Check if non-printable characters are to be filtered" box. It
will remove ALL PUNCTUATION making the document very hard to read.
I then do a File-->Save As from my browser when the resulting html file appears.
I use Pyrite Publisher or MakeDocW to then convert the html to palmdoc.
The resulting file is MUCH MUCH smaller and easier to deal with (usually reducing something from several MB down to a few hundred KB). | |
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