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Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

I am setting up a library software package that sends email to patrons when they have overdue books. It uses Outlook to do that. The software puts only a tiny generic message into the email text window, and then customizes the attached PDF file with whatever books are overdue.

Nice, but will it work on cell phones? The PDF file is roughly 25-40KB in size. I've seen this on one cell phone, and it's non-stop characters that fill the window without any spaces.

Obviously, I'm in touch with the vendor to change this, but he says that according to one of his tech support people (Canadian company, BTW), they are nearly certain that email-sensitive cell phones (!?) will have the Adobe Reader as part of their browser environment. I'm not so confident, and it will take me a while to test this out on a variety of cell phones here.

Just curious if anyone has experience with being able (or not) to read PDF files from a cell phone in Japan.

Thanks in advance

Cool Teacher · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:37 am Post subject:

Let's do a test. I will put this PDH here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/20_05_10jigreport.pdf

I will attempt to read it. Cool

Cool Teacher · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:41 am Post subject:

Hay good news! I could read it but dont you have a keitai Glenshi?

Shocked

That's very rare... Surprised

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

No, I have never owned a cell phone, whether here or back home. Doesn't matter, either, as my students have many types.

So, what type do you have that seemed to work, Cool Teacher? Help me out with the data collection.

Anyone else?

wayne432 · Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 255

tested it and it worked... tho i got a couple of loading errors at first.
when i tried it the third time, it worked.

i think it looks like the software is probably packaged with all modern phones.
i have a docomo phone made by sharp.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

My wife has a Softbank (vodaphone) cell phone. When I tried sending her a small PDF file, she could open it with some other type of software, but between every word was an X, so it made it hard to read even the simple sentences I sent her.

Anyone else?