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hey darrell, I just wanted to advise your readers that they could alternitively and easily just use a mac, and a built in program called preview that will allow you to read pdf docs as if they were just your standard text docs with the screen reader voiceover
Darrell:
Long time no talk! Last time was at CCB I think!
Hope you get these via email since this isn’t really a recent post.
Well I haven’t tried PDF2TXT yet cuz it’s a Win32 program, and I’ve been doing major amounts of work on the Pac Mate (BX440) so I am limited to the adobe seervice. Not bad as long as you have online access of some kind.
Only problem is it doesn’t work w/ActiveSync–that is, you have to create a separe account sored on the PM and send the PDF file from there; no idea why.
Well, I thought I’d point it out, and also say that I for one would love to see/hear more commentary about portable devices out there. There are so many, and about 70% of them that are mostly foreign never get mentioned.
Well take care, thanks for the MAGIC warning, and contact me if you like.