[OS X TeX] pdftex created pdfs on palm pilots

[Jung-Tsung Shen]

On 11/30/06, Jason Davies <ophiochos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >A colleague is reading a manuscript of mine produced in TeXShop
> >via pdftex 1-10a, pdf version 1.4. It is his habit to put such
> >files on his Palm Pilot so he can read them easily at will.
> >When opened in the Palm, the pdftex produced pdf appears
> >without any spaces as in the original opened on his laptop.
> >Opening the original and saving it as a pdf from Preview turns
> >each page into an image.
> >
> >Can anyone account for this behavior and suggest remedies.
>
> is this using Documents to Go as a reader on the Palm? I find it
> erratic unless you switch to the 'actual' view. The 'rendered
> text' view is erratic, as he's found.
>
> Acrobat is poor on the palm, i gave up on that ages ago.
>
> I recommend creating an rtf file instead with latex2rtf.

There are other (and better) ways to read PDF:

http://www.metaviewsoft.de/en/Software/PalmOS/Freeware/PalmPDF/index.html

or, a very good alternative (which I am using) [not free]

http://www.cerience.com/viewers/pc.php

JT
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