PDF to iSilo

[carvia]

How can I convert documents in PDF format into iSilo format?

[Voltage Spike]

Short answer, you can't.

Long answer, you use one of the many PDF to HTML conversion tools and then convert the resulting HTML. The results may or may not be acceptable depending on the source document.

[aschechtman]

Can you (Voltage Spike) or anyone else comment on which PDF to HTML tools work best for this?

Andrew

[carvia]

Short answer, you can't.

Long answer, you use one of the many PDF to HTML conversion tools and then convert the resulting HTML. The results may or may not be acceptable depending on the source document.

I have done that several times, the results were not acceptable. It would be great, if the iSiloX Converter could handle the conversion of PDF documents.

[Voltage Spike]

Can you (Voltage Spike) or anyone else comment on which PDF to HTML tools work best for this?

There are a few out there, but if the document is available online I tend to use Adobe's own tool:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

[Pride Of Lions]

Adobe's conversion tool is too picky for me. On Plam OS I use PalmPDF. It's free and it's nice to get PDF's on my PDA. It'd be nice if iSilo would read PDF's, but until then (if ever) there are options. I'm pretty sure there's a freeware PDF reader for PPC also.

[aschechtman]

I like PalmPDF too but it is very slow. I'd much rather be viewing pdf's in iSilo but until I find an easier way to get them into iSilo I may use Repligo which does a good job with PDF's.

Andrew