PorDiBle for Mac

User Reviews

• New Version Lost DOC to TEXT Conversion

  Steve DavidsonNovember 10, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been using PorDiBle for quite some time, and just tried this new version. It works as well as before (even better since you don't have to type the file name base/root into the dialog box anymore). However, and this is a big one, the conversion from DOC (.pdb) back to text seems to have stopped working. Is anyone having success with this? Using Mac OS X 10.4.3 on PowerBook G4 (15" Aluminum) Thank you.

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• Retried the link

  Neil HOctober 3, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />after a few days and I can now install it. All I can say is this works perfectly. I have been converting Dr Who E-books from the BBC web site. This little program does it's job easily and without any fuss. Definatly a great little app.

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• free, unique, essential

  gene_swamp, NOLAFebruary 18, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Does what it says; neatly. Thank-you PorDiBle! I don't know how else to create .pdb files, and this does it for free. It's also very lean, requiring very little RAM. Don't forget: you have to drag your rtf document and drop it on the Pordible icon. It says so right in the description of PorDiBle people; c'mon. Admittedly, after it's done converting an .rtf document, the new .pdb version won't appear until you de-select the original .rtf document by clicking anywhere. This shouldn't take long for most folks to figure out, but it does seems a little weird, and maybe the Pordible folks should say so; but still overall, 5 stars. Palm Reader Pro demo 2.4.2 reads all of these .pdb files smoothly for me. It does have a problem with certain fonts, so perhaps you should convert the rtf document to a more basic font before you convert it to .pdb. David Pogue's OS X book (the big one for Jaguar) says that you should use the TextEdit, preference to (always?) save documents as rtf, and (maybe?) never as plain text (.txt) because it opens more powerful features in text edit and M$ Word reads them and can create them, simply by choosing 'save as rich text format'. I find this quite helpful. I barely use AppleWorks anymore, because it's Carbon not Cocoa, and none of the PeeCees I use have AppleWorks for Windows. Apple's TextEdit is a splendid Cocoa (native OS X) application with total cross platform compatibility. I'm having trouble with a new Sony Clie PEG-TJ25/U running Palm OS 5.2.1, MarkSpace's the MissingSync 3.0.9, Mac OS 10.2.8, and after about 10 hours of work, no sync-o', and no comprehendo, amigo. Palm Sync executes and runs, but with no actual data transfer. Please let me know if you have any ideas.

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• Why was HTML removed?

  gancho--2008October 19, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been looking for HTML -&gt; PDB converters, and everyone mentioned pordible. I wish it was still part of the distribution!

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• bait10652March 30, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nice. Very nice. Dude, you should consider setting up a paypal account for donations. This app is great for converting .txt docs. Thanks!

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• ssgreyJanuary 31, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I don't know what I would do without this little app. I use it constantly. What if the author gets hit by a bus and

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• sfishSeptember 21, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The author has been very responsive and this new version certainly seems to make a huge difference. I also can't help but attribute some of

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• dinsdale_September 20, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />keep getting error 11 when converting .lit ebook.

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• Totophe--2008September 20, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It works but if you use 8bits character, such as french do it, you don't see character like é, è, ç, à, ù ... and

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• blankrebSeptember 19, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I can vouch for this one. I have made a dozen excellent Palm Doc files with. Quick and painless. A treat.

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