Hello all,

I am trying to upload and view photo's on my Palm Tungsten E.

I have converted my .jpg to a .pdb with par. That is the way to make the Palm happy. However, although the new .pdb transferred fine to the Palm I cannot see it. I only see the pictures I uploaded from my Windoze box.

I use the native Photo application for viewing pictures. There is another .pdb on the Palm, called PhotoDB-Foto. This file seems to contain the contents or the directory of all pictures which are to be viewed with Photo. This file obviously was not touched. I would not know how to do that anyway.

Is there any Palm application to view pictures which does cooperate with Linux? Or can simply display any jpg uploaded to the Palm?

I use internal RAM, not the memory card. I prefer to keep it that way.

Anyone with a solution?

Thanks
jlinkels

The latest version of pilot-link includes the new version of the pilot-foto application. From the man page:

Palm 'Foto' Image Installer/Remover/Fetcher/Converter

This is a palm conduit to fetch, install, or remove, Foto files from a Palm. It can also convert *.jpg.pdb files that have already been fetched from the Palm to jpeg files.

This is excellent!

I was deceived because I was looking only at the available Debian packages. The currently available version only allows to convert from pdb -> jpg.

The maintainers of this package have done a great job, and I do like the command line tool better than any graphic pilot package.

It is also striking that since I convert the pictures manually to 320x320 resolution, image size is smaller and downloading is much faster as compared to the Windoze Pilot Desktop. It is hardly believable, but I think that the Windoze version did not resize the picture, but sent the entire thing to the Palm. But ahhhh.... that is common practice for Windoze... it should be easy, non configurable and speed or memory use is not an issue at all. If your program is too slow, upgrade your hardware, do not try to make you program better!.

Thanks again for helping me out.

jlinkels