Pdf download from email?

tuz · 06/27/2009, 03:47 PM

I have an email with a pdf attached and I appear to have downloaded the pdf no problem (progress bar zoomed across in 20 secs or so) but when I open pdf viewer it's not there. Haven't been by a computer to check there. What am I missing?

divyamistry · 06/27/2009, 03:59 PM

Yea, so here's the deal. It's the stupidest thing I've seen in a Phone usability, but then again... many people like this, so it may be just personal preference.

Here's how to use it the Palm way:

- Open Email
- click on the pdf attachment
//this will start the progress bar and "download" the pdf
- now click on the attachment AGAIN in the email to open it!
//PDF will open now!
//at this point pdf is still not "downloaded" and available in pdf viewer
- to get the opened PDF in your phone, Open "PDF View" menu and click on "Save As"
- save it with whatever name
//at this point, the pdf has downloaded and is available in PDF Viewer

Hope this helped.

TechFirstAid · 07/01/2009, 12:12 PM

When I try to open a pdf attachment I get an error saying "error downloading file, Server reports: Read Timed out. I am using gmail. Any thoughts? Before I was getting an error that there was saying the pre didn't know how to handle the attachment.

edit. I got the pdf to download, but it doesn't show up in the pdf reader list. How do I access it? Is it store somewhere specific. I thought the pre just scanned all the files.

dcigary · 07/01/2009, 12:52 PM

I've gotten some PDF's to work, and some don't. I thought that the 1.0.4 update fixed the problem, but apparently it didn't, as there is one PDF I get on a daily basis that I can't read. However, if I extract the PDF from my regular Outlook email and transfer it to the phone, I can read it fine. Here's the error I get:

I really wish they would fix this, as it would be a great thing to have for my job - this is a nightly PDF report from the system operators on how long certain processes took.

vizi · 07/04/2009, 03:07 AM

I try to open a pdf and I get a message saying " cannot find a program to open this file". I'm at a lose.

mdmogren · 07/04/2009, 03:14 AM

There is definately a problem with certain versions of pdfs not working in the pdf viewer.