palm os pdf viewer

Terr Fangbite · Post by **Terr Fangbite** » 2004-12-16 10:54pm

I recently bought a new palm pilot (tungsten E) and was sorely dissapointed when I tried adobe's palm pdf viewer. The problem is that I want the ability to zoom in on pictures (since many of the files I want to view are concidered pictures...) but that ability is not available because the text wrapping software they use removes the need for it

Anyway, I've looked online to no luck in finding a pdf viewer with zoom capabilities. Anyone got any suggestions? At this point I'm concidering (shudder) of just taking a screenshot each page so I can view the files.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-12-16 11:34pm

I doubt it, because if you decode the PDF format Adobe sends the FBI after you, and even if you're Russian they'll wait till you visit the country to arrest you. Then you are held for months or years without any right to visit or an attorney.

Terr Fangbite · Post by **Terr Fangbite** » 2004-12-17 06:14am

Wow. Thanks for that revealing bit of knowledge. I just love brotherly love and stuff.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-12-17 11:16am

Slartibartfest doesn't know WTF he's talking about. PDF is an open format.

Adobe's issue was when a Russian company decided to try and break their weak encryption (which in in violation of the US DMCA). Their products were being distributed in the US (violating US law, however bad said law may be) and thus said guy was liable to be arrested. I have no information on if he has been held with or without access to an attorney.

Unfortunately, Acrobat for PalmOS is the only viewer out there, it seems, and it also happens to only read stripped-down PDFs that you put through their parser.