adobe reader for Palm OS

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From: Tannie
Subject: adobe reader for Palm OS
Date: 17:24 on 02 Aug 2004
I got bored on the train home from work (and to work, but that's in the 
morning, so I'm still half asleep) and decided to read books. I don't 
really want to drag books with me (I'm dragging so much with me 
already) so I decided to use my darling Palm Tungsten T for it. It can 
read PDF's with Adobe Reader (and some other formats with some other 
funky programs) so it seemed the ideal way to carry several books with 
me in case I suddenly was in the mood for something else.
The hate started soon....

I downloaded the required file from the Adobe website and unpacked it. 
It contained a mac-program and a palm-program. I had no problem 
installing the palm-program, I just drag and drop it into my Hotsync 
manager and synced. Step 1 completed!
I then double-clicked the other program, expecting an installer but no! 
It was the desktop program!
Hello?

Where's the install thingy that installs my conduit so my palm can 
actually sync with the desktopprogram?
I did some searching and turns out the desktop program contained the 
conduit!
Which is very hateful, cause that way i have no control over it 
whatsoever. Whoever made that up should be fired.

I wasn't in a hateful mood yet, so when the program told me to press 
the Hotsync button so it could check my palm I did it, fully expecting 
the program to check my palm and figure out what it could do with it.

But no!

*Nothing* happened (well, regular sync, but that wasn't what I wanted)

I tried again a couple of times.
*n-o-t-h-i-n-g*

Since I couldn't find a conduit, the hotsync log didn't contain a 
conduit error-message. The hate started to grow.

I disabled all hacks on my palm, thinking that may be the problem 
(hateful on it's own). But no! It still didn't work!

And still no errorlog. I got angry and yelled at my palm to do the damn 
sync, but my poor palm was completely innocent and did it's best (I 
have yet to make up to it).

I did some more googling and finally found a comment on versiontracker 
that said I had to rightclick the desktop program, click show package 
contents and somewhere in there was the conduit, hidden. What? Manual 
install of the conduit? Why was this not in the user guide?!

I dragged it to my conduits folder of my palm application support 
folder and the hate grew and grew. I had to authenticate!
What? Hello?! I'm logged in! As me!

Hating everything I typed in my password and the conduit appeared in my 
Hotsyncmanager.

Thinking I finally beat the desktop program I told it to convert a few 
books, which took nearly an hour and resulted in around 2mb of files 
(and the hate grew more!)

By the time I could finally sync my palm the Hate was very big.

It synced happily (good palm).


And then came the error of the conduit "Not enough space on the 
receiving device, please check your memory card, it may be full"

WTH?

It had almost 3mb free! I triple-checked _before_ syncing! AAARGH! HATE!

I checked again, it showed a little over 2mb free.
It had installed one of the files, but there were a few more, and room 
enough for it.

I pressed hotsync again. The next file was transfered, and again I got 
the error about not enough memory.

AAAAAAAAAAA!

And again hotsync, again next file transfered, again error

(repeat until all files done).

Have all files on Palm now, lots of Hate-Hate-Hate. Stupid Adobe 
Reader! It should just work! Grrrr!

Hateful, very Hateful!

--
Tanja

... I love cats... Dead ones.

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