An analogy: It's sad that we embrace Powerpoint (and now Keynote, an abomination of a program whose very purpose is inimical to the "idea" of Mac), and then this:
We seek to use .pdf on a Palm (maybe 2" square screen) . . .
The great thing about .pdf is the ability to preserve data in visually meaningful manner, to allow meaningful and accurate reproduction of data without losing clarity, accuracy, etc.
Think of this: an Acrobat-based print, could have thousands of letters, numbers, etc., all readable by the "audience" from a single sheet of paper. Now, imagine a Powerpoint screen: maybe a few elements, if you're lucky 50 (and they would be cluttered and full of goofy bullets and all pronouns would be without referents). Bare with this train: think in terms of what is visible on a sheet of paper, and compare it to the amount of information in a single Powerpoint slide. How many slides to equal that data?
The point of this analogy is this: print the .pdf and carry it in your pocket. There is no way any PDA can actually present data in a fashion which approximates the data in the original file. Color, pixels, etc. of the PDa tend to be meaningless. Cut and paste if you need certain sentences, paragraphs, etc. Type even.
And, I'm someone who actually wasted there time with this crap as well. I installed a .pdf reader, and moved the screen around, dealt with changed fonts, lack of graphics, etc. What a joke, and what an example of me working for the technology, rather than technology working for me.
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