Where Should You See Adobe File On PPC?

[rundcm]

I CANNOT READ ADOBE READER DOCS. ON PPC.
I INSTALLED IT IN A FOLDER IN MY DOCUMENTS BUT WHEN I MOVED A PDF FILE INTO IT IT WOULD NOT OPEN UP. IT SAID RUN THE FILE FROM THE APPLICATION. SO I DELETED IT AND TRIED TO INSTALL IT AGAIN. IT DOES NOT SELF INSTALL ON PPC SO I HAVE TO MANUALLY MOVE IT INTO A FOLDER ? THE FOLDER HAVE TO BE IN "MOBILE DEVICE FOLDER"? IS THAT THE SAME AS A FOLDER IN "MY DEVICE" OR "my DOCUMENTS?" THESE ARE THE DIRESTIONS I'M USING;;;

"Place your Pocket PC device in its cradle and run ActiveSync®.
Click [Install] to begin the installation process. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Begin transferring Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files to your Pocket PC device by placing them in your Mobile Device folder.

NO ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS APPEAR-ALL I GET IS OPTION TO INSTALL ON C/MYDOCUMENTS. I CAN CHANGE IT TO ANOTHER LOCATION SUCH AS "POCKET_PC" BUT IT DOES NOT SEEM TO DO ANY GOOD. IS THERE AN APP.THAT WILL JUST PLACE IT IN THE PROGRAMS WHERE POCKET WORD, EXCEL, ETC. RESIDE?

[rundcm]

I CANNOT READ ADOBE READER DOCS. ON PPC.
I INSTALLED IT IN A FOLDER IN MY DOCUMENTS BUT WHEN I MOVED A PDF FILE INTO IT IT WOULD NOT OPEN UP. IT SAID RUN THE FILE FROM THE APPLICATION. SO I DELETED IT AND TRIED TO INSTALL IT AGAIN. IT DOES NOT SELF INSTALL ON PPC SO I HAVE TO MANUALLY MOVE IT INTO A FOLDER ? THE FOLDER HAVE TO BE IN "MOBILE DEVICE FOLDER"? IS THAT THE SAME AS A FOLDER IN "MY DEVICE" OR "my DOCUMENTS?" THESE ARE THE DIRESTIONS I'M USING;;;

"Place your Pocket PC device in its cradle and run ActiveSync®.
Click [Install] to begin the installation process. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Begin transferring Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files to your Pocket PC device by placing them in your Mobile Device folder.

NO ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS APPEAR-ALL I GET IS OPTION TO INSTALL ON C/MYDOCUMENTS. I CAN CHANGE IT TO ANOTHER LOCATION SUCH AS "POCKET_PC" BUT IT DOES NOT SEEM TO DO ANY GOOD. IS THERE AN APP.THAT WILL JUST PLACE IT IN THE PROGRAMS WHERE POCKET WORD, EXCEL, ETC. RESIDE?

[PetiteFlower]

Please turn off the caps lock, it's not nice to yell.

If you use the "explore" option in ActiveSync to open whatever folder on your PPC, and copy the file to that folder manually by dragging, that should prompt the file to convert to a PPC viewable format. Then you should be able to view it with the PPC version of Acrobat Reader. Is that what you're asking?

[Ripper014]

Yes I think we can all do without the yelling...

I am not sure what your problem is... but the first thing you need to do is load-in a version of Acobat Reader for your PPC... it is free and you will find it on the Anyser site... The program loads in through active-sync and all you need to decide is where you want it to install...

Put your pdf somewhere in My Documents... or a folder one level down and that should about do it... I don't read pdf's on my PPC since I do not find it very useful... but I just loaded it again last night because I wanted to take a pdf file with me in case I had time to look at it... It opened fine on my PPC, but I never did gt a chance to spend any time looking at it....

[rundcm]

at you --just a habit typing in caps.

Anyway I opened activesync-explore- went to the Adobe website--downloaded the reader into a folder in My Documents, created another folder where the adobe file I want to read is, and I get messege " There is no application associated with (title 0f file) Run the application first, then open this file from within the application." So i look at the the adobe folder & it just has a bunch of source code in it. Now I'm trying to delete the Adobe folder from the pocket PC My documents, (it is now empty) I get a messege that it is in use by another person or program. What I dont get is, I see on other program running.

My question is , for someone who knows how to install this, is, Where should the installed Adobe file reside on the PPC?

And Where should it not reside on the PPC?

[Ripper014]

I used the installer program to install Acro Reader to my storage card. To my surprise.. it is multi-levels deep in the "My Documents" folder. I found the executable in /SD Card/Adobe Acrobat Reader 1.0/Adobe/Acrobat 1.0/Reader.... who would have thought. My pdf files are residing in "My Documents" on my PPC and in the folder "/SD Card/My Documents/Books" on my SD Card, but that is just where I choose to keep them.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by rundcm

Anyway I opened activesync-explore- went to the Adobe website--downloaded the reader into a folder in My Documents

Stop right there. That's not what you want to do. Double-click the program you download on the desktop. It's an installer which will launch ActiveSync and copy the actual program over and make an association so that tapping .PDF files on the Pocket PC opens them up. It also installs a conduit on the desktop to help reformat PDFs for optimal viewing when you copy them to Pocket PCs.

So, when you're done with the installer, then copy the PDFs through ActiveSync, and you should be able to open them up optimally.

--janak