![]() ![]() I’ve been a big fan of Ecamm’s PhoneView which I don’t use all that often, but every once in a while it’s an awesome way to dig around the guts of my iPhone. Many people have ALSO been talking about Printopia, a new offering from the folks at Ecamm Network. There are some workarounds but I wanted something simple and seamless. I’m intrigued by the Save2PDF app, but I’d like to see some improvements before I commit to it.Įveryone’s been talking about AirPrint that showed up in the iOS 4.2 upgrade, but there doesn’t seem to be many people that have the compatible printers necessary to make it work out of the box. Josh Barrett over on the most-excellent Tablet Legal blog has a couple of great posts on creating PDFs from your iPad, but he has a couple of reservations about the quality of the PDFs from the methods he outlines. And I want to save it into Dropbox since that’s my “virtual file cabinet.” There are many occasions when I want to convert what I’m reading into a PDF so I can annotate and preserve the information. Given this experience I would wait to upgrade until or if an update to 3.0 is released with fixes that allows users to install from an actual administrative account and offers some documentation, such as a readme with the App.I use the iPad to read a lot of news, websites, e-mail and documents. And finally I could only get it installed by login into my machine as the "root user", which in current systems is a bit complex to set up Apple generally advises against: and has the potential to damage OSX if used improperly thus usually requiring a complete reinstallation of the operating system should this happen. It did not remove the previous version as the description indicated it would. The only way I found to determine this is the presence of the drive in the printer prefs preference pane. A successful installation is not obvious. ![]() It also demands it be in the "Applications"folder and does not like being in a subfolder. There is no info or help when first launched. It demands that I use it in an Admin account which I am already logged into. Just installed it after spending 30min trying to figure out how to do it.
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