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Print to iPod/iPhone touch via FileMagnet and Automator
Authored by: chrisd on Oct 30, '08 04:03:13AM

Maybe I missed something but here's a much simpler way to do this.

Why don't you mail the PDF to yourself and read the PDF within the mail on the iPhone. (Of course, it implies that you have a mail account setup on your iPhone)

Here're the steps:
In the Print dialog , choose "Send the PDF document by Mail..." item in the PDF popup menu in the lower left.
That should bring a new mail window. Just type your own mail address, add a subject and send.
Wait until the mail comes in the iPhone. Voila...
No need to sync the iPhone.
No need for extra application.



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Print to iPod/iPhone touch via FileMagnet and Automator
Authored by: Mac Berry on Oct 31, '08 04:15:33AM

Well OK if that works for you, but with an IMAP account:

- I now have two copies on my desktop, one in sent and one in inbox, that I don't need. If I delete either, they get deleted on the iPhone too.

- To find a file I have to hunt through all my e-mail on the iPhone.

- I'm snookered if I want to keep the attachment longer than I keep e-mail on my iPhone.

- As you say, I have to enter an e-mail address.

So no, no-where near as useful or clean as the hint, which is extremely handy IMHO.



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Print to iPod/iPhone touch via FileMagnet and Automator
Authored by: sune on Nov 01, '08 08:42:26AM

Agree. However, you could ofcourse have a specific mail account just used for this purpose, I guess.

But you would have a limitation with your file size for most mail accounts. With FileMagnet I've transferred and viewed 1+ GB movies w/o problems.

And then I prefer to be able to do this without the requirement for a working internet connection for both Mac and iPod/iPhone (guess you could do something with the built-in Mac OS X mail-server, but I assume there still might be problems with IP addresses etc).



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