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I really like this one.
If this project is continued, Palm OS will pretty much be armored with all the best mobile programs of any mobile OS.
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It's nutty that a "Portable Document Format" (PDF) reader is not available for the leading "Portable Device!" I can view Excel Spreadsheets, play MP3's, watch movies on my Palm... but can't even view a common pdf yet...
Adobe tried passing off that terrible reader for the Palm years ago - didn't support native files and gave many people a very bad impression of Adobe's capabilities as a software developer. Picsel viewer "kind of" works, though it takes up a ton of RAM, often requires extra programs to get it installed and seems klunky since it wasn't made for current devices.
Strange that with all the creative commercial developers that it may take the freeware community to develop a decent .pdf reader for the Palm (doubtful I'm paying $30 to DataViz just to have this capability). Then again, maybe it's a sign that Palm OS moving to Linux will be the best thing that ever happens to it.
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It's not as nutty as Palm's having better software support for Microsoft Office files than Microsoft's Pocket PC!
It's one of the reasons I chose a Palm over a Pocket PC
I'm looking forward to NativePDF support; it's been long overdue.
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Still waiting for Skype... :-))
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PPC actually does have good M$ Office support
It's not as nutty as Palm's having better software support for Microsoft Office files than Microsoft's Pocket PC!
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Nevermind Windows Mobile 5's Office Mobile being MUCH better off than Pocket Office. There have been at least one 3rd party Office app for PPCs that support full formatting, images, and graphics. pOS gets some good credit here b/c unlike PPC, Documents To Go is bundled with most pOS PDAs. With PPC, you can still get it. You just have to shell out an extra $30 to $50.
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My PDAs: Visor --> Visor Neo (blue) --> Zire 71 --> Tungsten T3 (with 4 of 6 screws still remaining) ~?~> zodiac 2?
Promising
Very promising work, although pdf documents created with "regular" computers in mind obviously need to be re-formatted for handhels.
Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
Palm should have licensed Picsel Viewer around the time that they started bundling Desktop To Go. I wonder if Sony had a exclusive contract that precluded anyone else bundling the app.
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RE: Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
The world will end in 2006. Just as it was predicted in the bible along with the release of Microsoft Longhorn.... :p
RE: Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
I hope that's not true.
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Sony CLIE UX100: 128 MB real RAM, OLED screen. All the PDA anyone really ever wanted.
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The Palm eCONomy = Communism™
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RE: Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
The world will end in 2006. Just as it was predicted in the bible along with the release of Microsoft Longhorn.... :p
RE: Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
If it were left up to Palm, we'd still be stuck with "smartphones" that have about 23MB of RAM hardcoded into the OS, new premium PDAs that don't even have a vibrating alarm, reset holes that require you to screw off the tip of your stylus in order to reset them....
Oh.
RE: Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
But yes, speaking to Palm about it they said that they did not want to pay the licensing fees for it. I imagine thats why DTG is getting a native PDF viewer asap. I would imagine though that the other native PDF viewer in development now would get their attention a bit more.
Sony did have an exclusive license on Piscel, as it did with Decuma and Flash. I dont know perosnally the status of those deals now, but its clear that Palm doesnt want to go teh liscencing route if at all possible. Cant really blame them, they want to make some kinda profit.
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RE: Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
;-O
But yes, speaking to Palm about it they said that they did not want to pay the licensing fees for it. I imagine thats why DTG is getting a native PDF viewer asap. I would imagine though that the other native PDF viewer in development now would get their attention a bit more.
Thanks for the clarification. That's too bad - Picsel Viewer is one of the slickest Palm apps I've ever used and had essentially no competition in the PalmOS world for several years. While I don't like the PDF format, Adobe has managed to get themselves entrenched as a standard in the business world. If Palm is serious about positioning themselves as a company that makes PDA products for businesses, they should support PDFs right out of the box (much like they already do with Word and Excel). Proper email/Exchange handling is another area where Palm dropped the ball. Palm needs to stop screwing around with half-baked software and start using quality code. Documents To Go was a big step in the right direction, as was MultiMail, until Palm smothered it and then brought it back to life as that crash-happy monstrosity known as FrankenVersaMail. And why the **** hasn't Palm bothered to include a backup app with its devices? This isn't exactly rocket surgery. Or brain science*.
*Though Jeff Hawkins may disagree...
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Sony did have an exclusive license on Piscel, as it did with Decuma and Flash. I dont know perosnally the status of those deals now, but its clear that Palm doesnt want to go teh liscencing route if at all possible. Cant really blame them, they want to make some kinda profit.
Flash is fluff™ and Decuma is arguably superfluous, especially now that most of Palm's money is coming from devices with a keyboard. Support of core business software is a strategy that should have been obvious to those running a PDA company.
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nothing new
Palm already has a backup program. While Hotsync isn't quite the same as an SD card backup, i guess it still counts. But in this regard, ppl also ask why M$ doesn't include full version of it's tools like defragger, M$ Office, etc. as part of Windows
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RE: Why won't Palm just license Picsel Viewer?
If Palm would have licensed competiting technologies right afterwards (except for Flash, IMO and as a Flash designer, it could have been a heck of a boon to the lanucher and web browser side of things) the Palm would be looked at not just for Pilots, but for actualyl piloting personal tech into the future.
You are right though TVOR, native PDF viewing should have come as soon as the TT shipped with the ability to play MP3s, it should have been at the top of the things to have list. And the fact that Handspring and Palm couldnt/wouldnt do it in Treo models says a lack of forsight as well.
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