Welcome to the Adobe Reader for Palm OS. This Read Me contains last-minute product information and updates to the Adobe Reader for Palm OS documentation.
For detailed product usage and other information, see the User Guide that came with the installation.
This Read Me is divided into the following sections:
1. Installation Instructions
2. Troubleshooting Issues
3. Invoking Adobe Reader from other applications on palm device
4. Converting files on desktop using commandline options
5. Running windows installer in "silent" mode
Installation Instructions
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To install Adobe Reader for Palm OS, follow these steps:
- Make sure you have uninstalled any previous versions of this software, both from the desktop and the handheld device.
- Make sure you have administrative or standard (Power User) privileges on the desktop (applies to all supported windows systems except Win9X and Windows Millenium Edition users).
- Install Adobe Reader for Palm OS
- Macintosh users can mount the .dmg file on their machine. Instantiating Adobe Reader for Palm OS application for the first time, installs the application.
To uninstall Adobe Reader for Palm OS, follow these steps:
Windows:
- To remove the application from the desktop, From Start select Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs
- Select "Adobe Reader for Palm OS" and press the Add/Remove... button.
Macintosh:
Before proceeding with uninstallation on Mac, please close all other applications. To uninstall Adobe Reader for Palm OS on Mac, run the application and choose "Uninstall" from the main menu and trash the "AdobeReaderForPalmOS" folder manually.
Palm:
To remove the application from the handheld, tap Home, tap Menu, select App -> Delete, and choose the following applications for deletion:
Adobe Reader,
AcroPilot and
PrintMe
Note: Deleting the application from your handheld will also delete all PDF documents from your handheld. However, documents on a secondary storage card (if any) will not be deleted.
Troubleshooting Issues
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- Gray scale images are known to have problems with some Palm OS 4.11 color devices such as Tungsten-W.
- It is highly recommended that you let Adobe Reader for Palm OS obtain your device settings. For details on how to get the device settings for your Palm OS device, please refer to the Adobe Reader for Palm OS Help document (UserGuide.pdf). This will enable Adobe Reader for Palm OS to optimize files for viewing on your device.
- If you see a "Unable to install the notifier." message during installation, it may be because Palm's Conduit Manager library (condmgr.dll) is not same as the one originally installed by your Palm Desktop software.
- Ensure that you have administrative or standard user (power user) privileges on the desktop before you install the software. You also need these privileges to execute the software after installation. The desktop software will not transfer files to your handheld if you do not have sufficient privileges.
- It is advisable that users do a Hotsync just after installation so that the application is transferred to your handheld. If you skip this process, and use the desktop software to send PDF documents to your handheld, they will not be transferred to your handheld in the first Hotsync.
- If you are not able to transfer PDF documents to the handheld, check the following:
- Hotsync Manager is running (Hotsync icon should be visible in the system tray)
- Check that the Adobe Reader conduit is set to "Synchronize the files" action in "Custom" option of the Hotsync Manager
- If Adobe Reader conduit is not listed in the HotSync Manager's "Custom" menu, please uninstall and re-install Adobe Reader for Palm OS.
- Adobe Reader requires at least 80 KB of free space on the main handheld memory if it is launched from the main memory. If it is launched from an expansion card, in addition to 80 KB, there must be free memory equivalent to the size of Adobe Reader for Palm OS (around 416 KB).
- The Reader does not support LeftHack, a HackMaster-compatible shareware module. Disable this hack before using the Reader application.
- If your handheld has a secondary storage card, and you wish to access your PDF documents from the card, please ensure that your PDF documents reside in the default directory meant for .pdb files (on the device). For e.g.: the default directory for .pdb files for a Palm m500 or a Sony CliΘ device with Palm OS version 4.0 or higher is /Palm/Launcher; whereas for a Sony CliΘ device with Palm OS version 3.5, it is /Palm/Programs/MSFiles. The Reader software looks in this "default" directory and all its subdirectories for PDF documents.
- Some PDF files contain text in fonts whose encoding cannot be determined. Such text cannot be displayed correctly in the Reader. PDF files which contain significant text in unknown encoding will not be processed.
- If during installation, you get a message "Unable to install Send To Palm plug-in..." you can copy SendToPalm.api from the Adobe Reader for Palm OS install directory to the Adobe Reader 6.0 plug_ins directory. Please note that the Send To Palm plugin is supported for only version 6.0 of desktop Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat.
- The "Send to Palm" menu item that appears on a right-click to a PDF file (on Windows) on the desktop will not appear if no other Adobe application that handles PDF files (e.g. desktop Adobe Reader or Acorbat) is installed.
- There is a known issue with uninstalling Adobe Reader for Palm OS on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. HotSync manager has to be restarted manually after uninstallation is complete.
- For uninstallation, Palm Desktop needs to be installed on your system. Uninstall Adobe Reader for Palm OS before uninstalling Palm Desktop.
Invoking Adobe Reader from other applications on palm device
- To launch Adobe Reader on Palm from other applications, refer to the following code section. Implementation note: For this feature to work correctly, Adobe Reader and the PDF file must both be on the Palm handheld's main memory.
- To invoke Adobe Reader on a Windows desktop machine from the command line, browse to the Adobe Reader for Palm OS install directory and invoke AdobeDeskCmd.exe with the following usage:
USAGE: [-s] [-u userName][-p userPassword] in_file, where
-s is the optional silent mode of operation
-u is the optional Palm Desktop user name whose conversion settings are used. Default is the last Adobe Reader for Palm OS desktop user or the alphabetically first user for the first time
-p is the user password for the file (if any)
in_file is the file to be converted
The converted file is placed in the <userFolder>\"PDFView" sub-folder of Palm installation directory.
Running windows installer in "silent" mode
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- To install Adobe Reader from Palm OS in a "silent mode", invoke the self extracting executable in the following format:
<Complete path to the executable> -s -a -s
This will install the application with default options:
o Install in "C:\Program Files"
o Install the prc and pdbs to the first reported Palm Desktop user.
o Do not invoke readme or the application at the end of installation
To change the default options, appropriately modify the silent installer configuration script (setup.iss) in the self extracting archive.
