Let’s say you found a great PDF on the web. It has exactly what you need in order to wow your boss. Or, maybe it has what you need in order to win that ongoing argument with your friend. Either way, you need to get your hands on that PDF outside the web, and you do not want to wait for the next time you and your intended target are near a computer. After all, if you just email it you cannot see the look of utter defeat on the face of the loser of that bet. If that ability is worth a few extra steps, then you have found yourself in the right place. With the help of one app, you can get it done in no time at all.
- Download the GoodReader App if you do not already have it.
- Open the target PDF in Safari on your iPad.
- Tap and then hold the Address Bar in Safari.
- When the menu appears choose Select All.
- Tap on Copy.
- Press the Home button to get back to your apps.
- Open the Good Reader app.
- Click on Web Downloads then choose Enter URL.
- Paste in the URL you just copied.
- Tap OK.
Once the download is done you will see the PDF in your My Documents tab.
Product [GoodReader]
Maybe try iBooks, which is a free app from Apple. I wasn't anticipating this mechanism, but after installing iBooks, I began submitting the web form to renew my U.S. passport. Not knowing how I was going to print the resulting PDF, I continued anyway. Lo and behold, when the web site presented the finished PDF document in Safari, there was a clickable button in the upper right corner labelled "Open in iBooks".
SO I did, and then sync'ed my iPhone to my MBP, and the document (with some random name),
appeared in iTunes, from where I could print it.
Apple does it again. (as usual)
Sunny Guy
Um, there is a much easier way to do this…
Instead of manually copying and pasting a URL from Safari into GoodReader, simply change the "http" to "ghttp" in the URL field in Safari, then hit Return. This will launch GoodReader and automatically import the PDF into it, all in one shot. Works great!
Sunny Guy mystery be on something, there is no link from Safari – get a grip boy :O)
Or… One can just use the web browser available inside GoodReader…
Good Luck.