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Easy way to make PDFs into PDB (Palm ereader)
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Posted by: crash331

I have a book in PDF format but I would like to read it in palm's ereader program because I don't like Adobe's palm reader. It loads too slow and has other problems. I tried the alternative, the free one, but I didn't like it too much either.

I have Adober Acrobat Pro, so I can actually save the PDF in many formats, including txt, rtf, html, etc. I just need a way to make a palm pdb file.

Any suggestions?

Posted by: SmartMoose

Lots of info on converting just about any text format to the Palm eBook format can be found here: http://www.handebooks.com/converters/

Also, if you're unhappy with the Acrobat Reader for Palm, I highly recommend checking out the open source (in other words, free) PalmPDF. Works very, well, and only takes up about 50k once the rendering engine is moved to an SD card.

Edit: I see that you have tried out the "free one" (I assume you're referring to PalmPDF). I'll still leave the above paragraph in just in case there are others that want to try it out.

Posted by: crash331

I tried dropbook but it just gave me an error when I dropped the txt file into it.

Also, that option kind of sucks because when you export as a text file using acrobat, it gets rid of ALL formatting. No paragraphs, no tabs, no page breaks, etc.

Posted by: tartis

Thanks for the tip on the free PalmPDf program. I was using the free version from Adobe on my Treo 650 and it was just plain lacking. The Palm PDF is a great application.