Tungsten T2

> I just recived a Tungsten T2 over the holidays. It works great with
> pilot-link but some of the more advanced features I cannt figure out how
> to do with linux.

	Welcome to the community! Many of us (myself included) have this
particular device (along with many other devices of similar capabilities).
It works well for a lot of things, least of which, PIM functionality.

> I have a number of PDF's that would be nice to carry around.  I
> installed the latest acrobat for palm but I cannt figure out how to
> upload pdfs to it. I found a project on freshmeat that converts pdf's
> into pdb's but acrobat can not read them, does anyone know how to
> transfer pdfs onto my PDA?

	The tool you are thinking of, pdf2pdb from the site in Russia,
does not create valid pdfs for the versions of the Acrobat reader that I
tried (1.1, 2.0, and 3.05).

	Looking at the data, it just slaps an AppInfo block onto the front
of the raw pdf file, and renames it to .pdb. That won't work, because
Adobe's reader does a LOT more to the pdf file when it prepares it for
reading in their PalmOS reader (trimming pages, reflowing text, quantizing
images, etc.)

	The short answer is, you can't get pdfs onto your Palm with any
Linux tools yet. I don't know if anyone is working on it. I haven't heard
of any other projects moving that direction. Feel free to jump aboard and
code up something if you can, and see if anyone else helps you bring it to
production quality.

	PalmOS6 is supposed to have native PDF support, assuming you can
send the PDF to your Palm handheld directly (if the Palm's "main" memory
includes a proper filesystem, you can copy them there, if not, they'll
have to go onto external storage). Nobody is sure what OS6 will actually
bring, when it hits the market, or if current palmOne handhelds will be
able to upgrade to it, via flash upgrades.

> I would also like to do audio and video with my PDA. First of all do I
> have to use realplayer to do this?

	"do audio and video"? What do you mean? Play? Create? Produce?

> I really hate realplayer and was wondering if there were any other
> choses I have?

	Kinoma Player, comes on CD2 that shipped with your Tungsten T2.

> I was also wondering how would I transfer audio and video files to my
> PDA?

	Currently, not possible unless you copy them directly to the SD
cards with a card reader of some sort. There are quite a few SD card
readers out there for reasonable prices (under $20.00/USD). Most of them
are supported in Linux. Pop out the SD card from your T2, pop it into the
reader, copy the mp3/mpg files over to the SD card from your Linux
machine, pop it back into your T2, and load up your player.

> I also read that you have to have a memory card, since my PDA has 32megs
> of onboard memory do I have to put clips onto the memory card?

	Yes. Audio and video formats cannot be copied to "main" memory on
the Palm, without special tools that can convert them to Palm record data
formats.

> I am also a big OpenOffice person and all my notes for school is in the
> OpenOffice format so is it possible to have something like openoffice on
> my PDA? If not is there a way to get datavis to work on linux?

	Again, no. DataViz only works on Windows. You'll have to send
those documents to the Palm with the Windows tools, after saving them from
OpenOffice.org format into their Microsoft format.

	The other alternative here is to save your files into HTML, and
just convert them to Plucker[1] format, which _does_ work on Linux (and
OSX and Windows and Unix), and then read them in that format. Plucker
supports images, many many levels of formatting, tables, and much more.

	Good luck!



[1] Plucker, http://www.plkr.org/

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