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How do I view PDFs offline on an Ipod touch?

I have not found an app that does this yet.
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cjd | 3 years, 4 months ago
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Hello. I suggest you get the application AirSharing. It allows you to view a variety of file types including pdf (but allows you to view a variety of documents, photos, music, movies etc).

AirSharing is a pocket server and using WiFi can get your files off your computer and onto your iPod Touch / iPhone. If you save the file onto your iPod Touch / iPhone, it will keep the file on the device and you can look at it whenever you want, even if you are offline.

To get the PDF file on your iPod Touch / iPhone, you will probably need WiFi - and if it is already on the device, you will need WiFi to download the application to your iPod Touch / iPhone. But as your question concerns "viewing" PDF's, then it is possible, using AirSharing, to view PDF's offline.

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totalanswers | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

I can confirm this works great on an iPhone. Even in Airplane mode with all possible internet connections turned off you can view PDFs and whatever documents have previously synced to Air Sharing.

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robotech_master | 3 years, 4 months ago
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There are several different applications that will allow you to view PDFs.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=289943355&mt=8 - Air Sharing - ($4.99): Use your iPod Touch (or iPhone) as a WebDAV drive (a wi-fi hard drive on your wireless network). Will allow you to view PDFs that you store in the drive space.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284979163&mt=8 - iSilo ($9.99): Also acts as a WebDAV drive, will view PDFs and a variety of other format documents, as well as iSilo-formatted e-books.

In fact, there are a number of WebDAV network drive applications on the Apple store, and most of them include PDF-viewing functionality. Two things to bear in mind, however:

First, the limited memory and processor power of your device mean that the larger the PDF, the less likely you are to be able to view it. A one- or two-megabyte book—sure. A twenty-megabyte fully-formatted manual, with lots of illustrations and so forth—highly doubtful.

Second, you are never going to get as good an experience reading a PDF on such a tiny screen as you are going to viewing the printed format, or even viewing on a larger-sized screen. "Viewing" is really the best word for it, rather than "reading".

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lemon89 | 2 years ago
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Some pdf files can be successfully converted to epub format, and iPad supports this format.
Try this online converter http://iiiconverter.com

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