Freeware of the day...... Day 15

Today's freeware program is one that mobile office workers and freeware program lovers alike will find immensely useful, and have been longing to see on non-Sony devices for some time now. Yup, it's PalmPDF.

PalmPDF is one of the few Palm OS PDF document viewers that can open native PDF files: most other document viewers require conversion. At first start up, PalmPDF will scan your device's hardware to determine how much heap memory is available and accessible. From there, you can open practically any PDF document that you've placed on your expansion card (only your expansion card). Despite the basic GUI features of PalmPDF, the buttons and menus do what they're made for, and that's what counts - especially since it is still in beta stages (version 0.8 at the time this review was written).

Most PDF files open seamlessly, but the larger files (usually 5 MB or larger) can take some time to fully load. Once the document is finished loading, you can zoom in and out on the page, pan around the document page, and of course navigate to other pages. PalmPDF provides you with the essential tools required to view PDF documents, like a basic, stripped down version of Adobe Reader.

As PalmPDF is still in beta stages, more features are most likely to come, thus enhancing usability and even performance.

Finally, a Palm OS application to view those PDF documents found in e-mail attachments. It's PalmPDF, and it's a very promising application, which can be found at MetaView.