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PDF viewer for WinCE 5.0 thin client

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by nodisalsi 1 view

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Please, please someone, anyone, tell me how to view PDF documents from a thin terminal running Windows CE 5.0.

I have been searching high and low for a PDF viewer to work on WinCE5.0 thin clients but to no avail. The best candidate I could find was FoxIt for Windows Mobile 5.0 and that would not work (Error msg "This is not Windows CE 5.0 software"). For all the intense effort I'm putting into this I am surprised and intrigued at how difficult it is to find any answers.

Am I missing something obvious?

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by adventtech

That particular EXE needs to be copied to you PPC to a folder of your choosing, and then ran from that location.

It's not an installable EXE like you might expect from other PPC applications.

by fuzzysneekers

Did you ever get this sorted out? We're looking at this now while we decide which thin clients to buy.

We'd like to go with the HP t5000 series, Win CE but if there's no PDF viewer this may kill that idea.

TIA

by nodisalsi

I still can't get PDF's to display but I have been away from this problem for a couple of months and hope to engage this problem again soon. The office is just having to manage without. You might consider instead getting the devices with embedded XP; or better still, Linux.

My advice - DONT BUY until you have thoroughly tested it. Ask the seller to provide you with one device with each OS so you can trial it - if they refuse then don't buy from them. Good luck.

My biggest gripe about WinCE/embedded XP is that money saved buy buying a thin client will be swallowed up the requirement for ADDITIONAL MS "Terminal License" for each client before they can be fully operated in a Windows 2003 network.

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