Getting my PDF books onto my iPad in a usable form
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From: Ian Piper on 10 May 2010 12:54 On 2010-05-10 15:10:59 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-05-10 14:40:20 +0100, Ian Piper said: >> >>> I thought it was going to be easy... either a decent reader program, or >>> convert my PDF books to ePub and then read them using iBooks. >>> >>> Wrong on both counts, it seems. I haven't seen a decent reader for >>> PDF-formatted books (I know that's not what PDF is meant for, but >>> that's the format my books are in). Can anyone recommend a product? As >>> for converting, >> >> GoodReader seems to be favoured. There's a "Lite" version, though the >> full one's only 59p :-) > > Yes, forgot to mention that. It is very good at rendering PDFs, and > considering the size of screen on an iPhone, it is very good at > navigation. Possibly the best non desktop experience with PDFs I have > had Right. I downloaded the free iPhone app and it looks all right. At 59p the iPad version is a bargain. Thanks for the pointer - at least I don't have to mess about converting all of my PDFs now. Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --�
From: Gwynne Harper on 10 May 2010 15:40 Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > Clealy ePub is capable of displaying both proper layout and images: so > can anyone guide me on how to make it work for my PDF books? The books > in question are mostly IT books and the images are essential. I suggest you leave them as PDF and use dropbox to read them - I suspect this will work fine, but as I'm a v2 iPad adopter you'll have to do the legwork. HTH, Gwynne -- My real email is net, not line.
From: Vivienne Dunstan on 10 May 2010 15:47 Gwynne Harper <g.harper(a)gmx.line> wrote: > I suggest you leave them as PDF and use dropbox to read them - I suspect > this will work fine, but as I'm a v2 iPad adopter you'll have to do the > legwork. I'd be interested in knowing if this works on the iPad. I do this a lot on my iPod touch to read PDFs and other documents like Word, RTF etc. Viv
From: smurf on 15 May 2010 15:58
Chris Ridd wrote: > On 2010-05-10 14:40:20 +0100, Ian Piper said: > >> I thought it was going to be easy... either a decent reader program, >> or convert my PDF books to ePub and then read them using iBooks. >> >> Wrong on both counts, it seems. I haven't seen a decent reader for >> PDF-formatted books (I know that's not what PDF is meant for, but >> that's the format my books are in). Can anyone recommend a product? >> As for converting, > > GoodReader seems to be favoured. There's a "Lite" version, though the > full one's only 59p :-) > >> that has proven totally unsatisfactory: neither the layout nor the >> images survived. I tried Stanza Desktop and the Epub2Go web service. >> The latter claims to handle non-vector images but didn't on the test >> document I tried. >> >> Clealy ePub is capable of displaying both proper layout and images: >> so can anyone guide me on how to make it work for my PDF books? The >> books in question are mostly IT books and the images are essential. > > ePub is internally like HTML, and so really wants to reflow stuff. So > I'm not sure that is really what you'd call "proper layout". Goodreader on my ipad has a problem reading large pdfs, very laggy. |