PalmPDF updated yet again
I am glad to report that the author of PalmPDF is continuing to develop and improve on PalmPDF. This is good news for those of us who like to read their journal articles on their PDAs!
Updates:
0.7 (11/23/05, “Thanksgiving update”)
- bug fix regarding UDMH and FtrPtrNew
- bug fix on Zire72
- bug fix with SnapperMail PDF attachment
- Updated GUI
- JogDial support on TH55
- 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)
0.8 (11/26/05 “postponed Thangsgiving update”)
- 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
I tried it out again and I can report a vast improvement over the earlier version. Now the zoom works faster and the Treo650′s Dpad controls the movement around the document nicely. It still needs a fair amount of resources (cache memory) free.
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About the author, Alan: Alan Teh is a Malaysian Physician who specialises in Hematology-Oncology & Stem cell Transplantation. He has been using Palm PDAs since 1997 and is absolutely reliant on them. His current PDA is a Palm Pre and is a strong advocate of the webOS platform, Palm's latest operating system. Caught the blogging bug in 2004 and has been addicted ever since… |
