halp!

[erastes]

Anyone know of a free widget that converts Word docs into things that can read on a Palm?

Or do you have one you can widget-ize for me? I need to send a copy of the new book to a reviewer and they only take Palm documents...

Many thanks in advance!

I must get a Penelope Pitstop Halp! icon!

Sorted Thankee redaxe!

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[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

I don't know of such a widget, but I'd definitely try expanding your search to widgets that turn from text documents to palm (since you can save as a txt document). Also, depending on which palm she has, she might be able to read mobipocket format, and I know mobipocket has freeware for turning doc or txt to mobipocket. Good luck!

[aunty_marion]

I'm not sure - I don't think Documents-to-Go does that, does it? Exactly what format do they need - what's the extension, in other words? Because I have a friend who has been using Palms much longer than I have, and she's just got her LifeDrive back from being repaired, so I could ask her. It may be that you just need to do a 'Save As...' in Word to a particular format.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've been searching/googling for 2 hours. That's why I gave up and threw myself on my flist's mercy!

*gnash of teeth*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

This is what they say:

Electronic submissions may be sent to zanne@bookreview.com, and must be Palm compatible. If your manuscript is in electronic text format, you can download a converter at http://www.peanutpress.com/makebook/

Please don't send us .pdf files. Would you want to print out an entire book on your printer in order to read it? Worse yet, would you want to sit at your computer for several hours reading off the monitor? Well, neither do we.

I don't know the first thing about Palm or any readers.

[aunty_marion]

Well. Have you tried the converter, then? I'd assume that 'electronic text' might mean .txt, so it would be worth looking at the converter to see what formats it uses/needs.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

(found on my friendsfriends page)

easyPDB (http://www.download.com/Easy-PDB/3000-2363_4-10134321.html?tag=pub) converts DOC to PDB. If that's not quite what you're looking for, I found a bunch of examples by googling "convert DOC to PDB" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=convert+doc+to+pdb&btnG=Google+Search).

Good luck!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Wow. That makes you Peter Perfect.

:)

Thank you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I couldn't find the one they mentioned, but someone's found me one! hurrah!

[aunty_marion]

Aha! Bruce comes through with the goods for you! Nice man... *waves to Bruce from the other side of the fandom*

[jmsnyder.livejournal.com]

You can download a free plugin from Microsoft's website to convert Word 2002 documents to LIT reader format. Don't know if that helps or not.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=199be874-1f5e-4fb7-8fe0-6bca50c7d356&displaylang=en

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thanks JM, I got one now!

My flist is great.

[megleigh.livejournal.com]

I also know of one that converts txt, html and pdf to mobi pocket reader format. Since you seem to have got what you needed, I'm just mentioning it here, it's available from the mobipocket developers center

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thanks hun!