The Government Is Against Us

[BarePaw]

For one of my classes tomorrow, part of the assignment was to read the CDC Guidelines For STD Treatment (http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/default.htm). I went to the website and saw that they had a "PDA Version" that they stressed could only be read by Palm OS devices. I checked it out and, thankfully, the file was a .pdb document that can be read with Isilo on Pocket PCs (I'm using the trial version now).
I was wondering if there is a free reader out there that will read this document. I'd rather not pay the twenty bucks to add yet another reader to my PDA.
I was a little dissapointed in the CDC for only offering that format when it could have been offered in a format that could be read for free. The desktop version was a .pdf that can be read with a free Adobe download. Why not make the PDA format the same for Adobe Pocket Reader (also free)?

[Sven Johannsen]

Why not download the pdf version and read it with the free adobe pdf reader for PPC? If it is not a tagged file, to facilitate reflow, copying the file to your PPC with the PC that you installed Acrobat reader onto the PPC from*, should attempt to tag the file and make re-flow possible.

*The tagger is added to ActiveSync when you do the reader install. The PPC reader can read untagged files just fine, but you won't be able to use re-flow.

[PetiteFlower]

Palm Reader (now known as eReader) is available for PPC, and it's free, and a pretty nice program (my preferred reader), can you read the document with that?

[emuelle1]

I believe uBook can read unencrypted .pdb files. That's my reader of choice; not because it's incredibly great, but because it's versatile. Sometimes it will mince words together randomly, but if you know to look for it, it's not too big a deal.

[Menneisyys]

The standard (free) version of Mobipocket Reader is also able to read Palm DOC files.

[Fishie]

For one of my classes tomorrow, part of the assignment was to read the CDC Guidelines For STD Treatment (http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/default.htm). I went to the website and saw that they had a "PDA Version" that they stressed could only be read by Palm OS devices. I checked it out and, thankfully, the file was a .pdb document that can be read with Isilo on Pocket PCs (I'm using the trial version now).
I was wondering if there is a free reader out there that will read this document. I'd rather not pay the twenty bucks to add yet another reader to my PDA.
I was a little dissapointed in the CDC for only offering that format when it could have been offered in a format that could be read for free. The desktop version was a .pdf that can be read with a free Adobe download. Why not make the PDA format the same for Adobe Pocket Reader (also free)?

Mobipocket is free and reads it fine