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PalmPDF 1.5 (for Palm OS)
Rating: 
Downloads: 47,855
(38 this week)
Licence: Freeware
Category: Home >> Other Applications
Last updated: 4 Nov, 2006
Author: MetaViewSoft
Website: Visit website
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PRC fileDuring development great importance was attached to stability. If you find an error please don't hesitate to contact the developer who will try to remove it in the next release. Nevertheless, if you like PalmPDF, it would be great if you support the developer's work with a donation
Features:
* Native PDF on almost every Palm OS 5 device
* File Browser to pick up your PDF file from anywhere on your card
* Handles received PDF files from EMail, Bluetooth or WWW
* Very small on-device memory footprint by moving the renderer to the card
* "Find" support in your PDF files
* Presentation mode for PDA based overhead presentations
* On-device conversion of your PDF files to plain text
* Compatible with RescoExplorer, ZLauncher and soon with MobiSystems OfficeSuite
Easy to use, fast and free!!!
bluemyth: I forgot to read the compatible devices, but worked great on my centro!
Nat1.503: Love it!! Can view documents clearly on page without adjusting!
GFresh: Works great on my 650 when I have to show clients work when I don't have time to get them printed.
bruzek: I cannot get this app to work! Loaded fine, but PDF attachments are identified by "winmail.dat". When I click the attachement, I get "unable to find a Plugin Viewer". What am I missing?
naopleasant: I've tried to download bothe the .zip and .prc and it always says "download failed". Any tips?
jimbob3: Perfect. Not much more to say really. Should have been an included function.
mishka13: great app. use it on daily basis. thanx
mig3298: Wow, this is FAST!!!!! I've been using Docs to go and that viewer is really slow to render the pages. This app is, OMG, FAST!!! and smooth too. Great job to the creator and thank you.....
_uMaY_: It's perfect program!!!
DrummerFL83: WOWZA! This is a great program! I can finally read my ebooks on my Treo 600; the fact that I can be reading while waiting for my flight or at work is wonderful! Thanks a lot!!
1.5 (11/01/06 "Halloween update")
- added: enabled bytecode interpreter in freetype lib (thx to Theo)
- added: links to other PDFs in content list allowed (also bugfixed)
- added: mouse pointers for link, move, mark and zoom
- added: support for history of viewed pages
- added: links are always underlined
- bugfix: link detecting
- note: there seems to be a problem with SkinUI, Mark and Zoom doesn't really work. Please disable SkinUI (Popup List) for PalmPDF.
- bugfix: on Zodiac, page up/down also with right buttons
- bugfix: volume labels were broken on very first start
- bugfix: right/left on older Palm devices was broken
- bugfix: JogDial on Clie was broken
- bugifx: SCBK_ files weren't removed from internal memory
- added: skin files can now be on the external/internal card, folder /PALM/Programs/PalmPDF/
- added: PalmPDF can now send the current page as Jpeg
- added: PalmPDF can now print the current page on a PCL or PS network printer using the same settings and the same protocol as the great PrintIt from Alex Pruss, see http://handypalmstuff.sf.net/
- added: ReFlow-mode, text is extracted and displayed page-wise
- added: zoom-select, mark and zoom into the selected rectangle
- added: when pressing the middle 5-way button (debug) you can also scroll to the next page with up/down
- added: "Clear" to scratchpad
- added: some small feedbacks
- bugfix: Couldn't copy the fonts to the internal hidden volume on NVFS devices
- bugfix: Position wasn't always correct when calling a custom bookmark
- bugfix: Files from internal drive wasn't open correctly from 3rd party apps
- bugfix: when receiving a file, the .pdf extension is added if missing
- added "Exit" menu item
- added setting to control behaviour when returning from "receive file"
- added more validation checks in mark/copy code
- added code to allow bookmarks of copy-protected files
- added possibility to delete skins
- added "Back" for the presentation mode
- added possibility to configure the hard buttons
- bugfix: Zodiac key handling
- bugifx: reworked renderer import to avoid app loosing (on reset, on NVFS) when renderer was moved to card
- bugfix: path creation for PalmPDF's folder
- reworked button layout for easier skinning
- search next button
- button to toggle between move, mark and zoom with stylus (zoom isn't implemented yet)
- can read pdf files which where converted by Adobe Acrobat for PalmOS (.pdb) when transfered to the card (the files are usually stored in "/PALM/Launcher" or "Applications")
- shows also the internal volume on TX
- added a scratchpad to store text parts from the PDF file
- added a bookmark list to store user defined bookmarks for a PDF file
- support for hyperlinks in PDF files (switch to mark and tap and drag a little bit)
1.1 (1st update)
- bugfix: Content extraction
- bugfix: security patch from xpdf 3.01pl2 added
- bugfix: MobiPocket is called with the created PalmDOC
- bugfix: Copy/Paste support in the search field
- memory check around Content-extraction, does prevent out-of-memory crahes with large files
- changed Scrollvalues
- changed progressbar a bit, extended "WAIT" to cover also the extraction of content
- added file handling support with RescoExplorer, ZLauncher, MobiSystems OfficeSuite etc.
- direct mode for the apps above, means no stop in the file browser and direct exit after the renderer is closed
- support for keyboards
- swapped quit and rotation button on all devices except Zodiac to have quit on home button on TX
- when moving behind the right or left border using the keys, the display is wrapped around for better readability in large zooms
- Skin support, selectable
- Possibility to rename PDF files in the file browser
- when called by another app or received file (using exchange manager) PalmPDF goes back to the called app when the PDF file is closed
- moved the password dialog to cover all display and extract options
- made password dialog larger and added multi-line fields
- Content (if included in file) is extracted and can be accessed from the Info window
- Invers video mode added
- moved some more stuff into storage
- "Find" can be interrupted (tap the small progress bar)
- Render mode can be switched in Info window
- faster rendering, text extraction of current page are delayed until a "find" is called
- Image decoding is skipped if only a small amount of memory will be free after it
- Rendering can be interrupted (tap the small progress bar)
- bug fix: auto scroll working again
- bug fix: default values for Scrollstep horizontal and vertical
- bug fix: Scrollstep is changed in the way the display is rotated
- bug fix: memory loss at presentation mode
- presentation mode controllable without stylus
- possibility to abort PalmDOC extraction
- allows to set start and end page for PalmDOC extraction
- Battery and Time in status bar
- bug fix: connection to FileBrowser app on LD and T5
- added support for password protected PDF files
- added MobiPocket to the default DocReaders
- Battery and Time in Info window
- adjustable stepsize for scrolling with the 5-way in Info window, saved
- different horz. settings for even and uneven pages, settable, saved
- settings saved for more recently documents (maybe 5)
- added autoscroll (for ebooks etc., access over info form)
- disable Palm Files support (something seems to be broken, I might need a device to test it)
- removed buffered read, to speed up rendering again
- LD bug seems to be gone (unbelievable...)
- bug fix: Security patch from Xpdf3.01 added
- bug fix: lines too big on certain zoom values (related to Xpdf)
- bug fix: more PDFs can be converted to PalmDOCs
- bug fix: Hotsync issue fixed? (if not, take care to remove the backup bit from PalmPDF)
- bug fix: Center button on Treo not captured anymore, allows keyguard disabling
- File selection now better recognizable
- Page selector pops up with an empty page number
- selectable DocReader (one of 5 defaults)
- added iSilo to the default DocReaders
- second tap opens file
- more frequent screen updates
- "Please wait" message when render engine is accessed on card
- Refresh after hardware zoom buttons delayed
- Refresh after hardware rotation button delayed, also added a small response
- Optional: skip large images also skips decompress of images to speed up document reading
- Find support and file name with the new "?" button
- Basic memory manager to avoid fragmentation, might bring better performance on some devices
- Better installation, all fonts inside the app and extracted at first run
- ARMlet (1.2 MB) can be moved to memory card, leading around 38 kB PRC in main memory to handle attachments and receive PDF files
- Beam/Send for PDF files
- Presentation mode, sends rendered pages as jpeg to any BT device (using object Exchange) together with a Bluetooth Media Adapter (BT->TV) you get a great presentation combo
- bug fix regarding UDMH and FtrPtrNew
- bug fix with SnapperMail PDF attachment
- Updated GUI
- Low-Res support
- added 65%, 85% and 95% as additional zoom factor
- remembers last scroll values for last visited document
- Basic rotation support using the 1st hard key (Function on Zodiac)
- smaller scroll values when using the 5-way for scrolling (better readable)