GPX to PalmDoc converter

If you liked my MobiPocket to PalmDoc converter, you'll love the new GPX to PalmDoc converter. It's faster and more customizable than the Mobi converter, and you'll never have to upload your pocket queries to my site again. As an added bonus, you can turn off the "eBook" option on your Pocket Queries.

If you can, I strongly urge you to use the 'palmdoc' output functionality in GPSBabel instead of GPXDoc. It's better written and works on operating systems besides Windows, and it doesn't care about IE security settings.

To use it:

• Download the file.
• Unzip the file in a directory on your local hard drive. (Not on a network drive. This is important.)
• Use IE to view the file "gpxdoc.html" that you just unzipped.
• Enter a name for your PalmDoc file and the name of a GPX file you want to convert, then hit "submit."
• After a few seconds, the text of the Palm document should appear on your screen. You will now find a .pdb file containing the Palm document in the same directory as your GPX file. So, if your GPX file was "c:\gpx\4548.gpx" your PalmDoc file will be "c:\gpx\4548.gpx.pdb".
• Install the PalmDoc file on your handheld and view it with your favorite document reader. I recommend CSpotRun, because it supports bookmarks and is free. (Palm Reader does not seem to support bookmarks.)

This will only work with IE 5.something or later with MSXML 3.0 installed. Note that it depends on the HTML file and the DLLs being in your trusted security zone, which is why it has to be on a local drive. Depending on your security settings, it may still pop up one or more security warnings; you can decide for yourself whether you trust me enough to say "ok."

If you don't like the format of the individual cache pages, you can change it by editing gpxdoc.xsl. If you don't like the names of the bookmarks, you'll have to edit gpxdoc.html, but be warned that only the first 16 characters of a bookmark entry get used anyway.