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Reading PDFs on iPhone 3G
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Jul 17, 2008, 09:39 PM
 
Does anybody know if reading PDFs has become any more elegant? Or is this version doing the same thing that the first did?
     
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Jul 17, 2008, 09:47 PM
 
What do you mean? PDFs have never been elegant.
     
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Jul 18, 2008, 10:15 PM
 
heh heh heh. well, can you at least store them on your phone, and open them in safari or a dedicated app without jailbraking or the sort?
     
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Jul 18, 2008, 10:29 PM
 
check out the stanza application.
     
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Jul 18, 2008, 10:42 PM
 
Filefront also does it iirc.

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Jul 19, 2008, 01:31 AM
 
You're looking for FileMagnet. I posted about in this thread.
     
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Jul 19, 2008, 05:08 PM
 
@Simon: what happens when you open a file? Does the PDF open in Safari? Can you sync an HTML or WebArchive to open in Safari?

Forget it, I'll just go to the website.
     
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Jul 20, 2008, 02:50 AM
 
FileMagnet holds and displays the files.
     
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Jul 20, 2008, 06:16 AM
 
Hi all, at the 3G intro (by Steve) didn't he mention that the new iPhone would read iWork files? It doesn't does it? (not without a 3rd part app, which I'm not even sure is avail yet)
     
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Jul 20, 2008, 06:29 AM
 
Originally Posted by iamnotmad View Post
Hi all, at the 3G intro (by Steve) didn't he mention that the new iPhone would read iWork files? It doesn't does it? (not without a 3rd part app, which I'm not even sure is avail yet)
AFAIK Mail (with FW 2.0) can display iWork attachments. I don't know if Safari can though. FileMagnet will display them too in the next version according to the dev's web page.
     
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Jul 20, 2008, 07:47 AM
 
Originally Posted by Simon View Post
AFAIK Mail (with FW 2.0) can display iWork attachments. I don't know if Safari can though. FileMagnet will display them too in the next version according to the dev's web page.
Ah yes, it was in Mail. thanks.
     
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Jul 22, 2008, 10:02 PM
 
Thanks all, for the tips. Apparently, Apple still hasn't decided to make it easy by default.
     
   
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