Comments (16)
PDF will never be supported. It's impossible to reflow the text with the Mac
OS X PDF implementation. As for
RTF, I'll need to do some research, but as a workaround you can always convert
the RTF to HTML using your
favorite editor.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 3 Sep 2007 at 11:02
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Doesn't safari already support PDF viewing? I wonder if there would be some way
to
point safari at a locally stored PDF file.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 5 Sep 2007 at 5:51
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Honestly just open it big deal you just won't be able to change font size. You
can
still zoom.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 5 Sep 2007 at 7:34
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+1
Original comment by [email protected]
on 5 Sep 2007 at 10:06
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PDF support would be TERRIFIC. I have many technical manuals and a few books
in PDF
format that I would love to carry on my phone. The current kludge of storing
the
PDFs as bookmarks in Safari is a PIA. Don't worry about reflow of the text.
Just
open it in landscape or portrait mode and the page can be zoomed in/out. This
method
works adequately in Mobile Safari.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 7 Sep 2007 at 8:42
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what about .chm support?
Original comment by [email protected]
on 10 Sep 2007 at 5:41
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Just a way to use the current PDF engine in landscape mode would make the
iphone much
better.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 25 Sep 2007 at 2:27
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Safari won't open big pdf files and I was sort of hoping you guys could add pdf
support to your EBook app. Then maybe I wouldn't be carrying text books in hard
copy
, on my flash drive or have to burrow it from a friend. It'd all be on my
iphone and
now wouldn't that be great?
Original comment by [email protected]
on 28 Sep 2007 at 6:44
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I've done some investigation and PDF support will take a lot, lot, LOT of work.
In fact, it may be beyond my skill
set entirely. It's not as simple as just throwing an image on the screen.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 28 Sep 2007 at 6:02
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Too bad! I was hoping it would be a matter of calling the engine already used
for
mail and Safari. But keep up the good work, this is excellent!
Original comment by [email protected]
on 30 Sep 2007 at 3:12
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But RTF is still easy to do, right? ;-)
Converting RTF to HTML on my Mac is a pretty trivial process. But I do have a
lot of texts and articles in that
format, it would be nice to forget about worrying what format something is in,
and just SFTP it all onto my
Touch.
Thanks again for this great app!
Original comment by [email protected]
on 17 Oct 2007 at 5:30
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To be honest, I don't know much about RTF. I'm kinda hoping someone
better-versed than me will take a crack
at the code. But even with HTML I'm just using Apple's built-in rendering
engine. The internal solution might be
no better (and possibly worse) than just doing an RTF->HTML conversion.. at
least until the SDK comes out in
February, and we have decent access to the tools to create an RTF viewer like
on Mac OS X.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 23 Oct 2007 at 3:42
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An iPhone application for opening PDF files already exists.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 29 Apr 2008 at 6:34
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.chm support would be very helpful to me as would .lit as yet i've not found a
decent piece of software to convert either of these to HTML
Original comment by [email protected]
on 4 May 2008 at 5:58
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@#13: what application is that?
Original comment by [email protected]
on 5 Jun 2008 at 4:21
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@#13:
Yes, there are LOTs of apps that _open_ PDFs...But that's not the problem! The
problem is that none of them can _reflow the text_ to fit the screen! So you
are
forced to either scroll sideways, or zoom out and try to read the text at a
miniscule size...That, or you have to re-distill every PDF to fit the screen
width...
PDF is too great of a format to just let slide like this...
Original comment by [email protected]
on 19 Feb 2009 at 1:29
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