OK, phone question

I have a PDF Manual on my home computer that I am trying to convert to the PDF reader for iBooks on my iPhone4. Any idea?

The file is a monster 288mb so I am unable to email it...

download a print to format program to convert? I don't know what iBooks read

this seems like a trip to the Google machine would give you the solution

FlightService wrote: download a print to format program to convert? I don't know what iBooks read this seems like a trip to the Google machine would give you the solution

Lots of answers there but I don't read iTalk haha. The other manual for my snowplow I emailed from a company email that allowed me to add whatever size attachment I wanted, at home I don't have that option.

Www.dropbox.com

Ah, bluej beat me to it. (stupid iPhone wouldn't stay signed in to the mobile version of the site )

Nice, so you just leave the file on their server or are you able to pull it back off onto the phone?

I would ASSume so, but I haven't actually set one up. All my co-workers use it to transfer files between work and personal computers.

You install the desktop application which syncs the content of a folder on your PC to their servers (in the cloud! Ooooo!) and then install the iPhone app and it will pull down the file from their servers when you go to open it. Both apps are two-way and instantly sync the changes back and forth. It's a pretty cool and easy to use technology.

dropbox

Get it on pc and ipod... any file you want to toss on the ipod can now just be dropped in dropbox and loaded from the drop box app. Your ipod will try to open the files with what ever it can.

Done multiple times, I keep random repair manuals for work in my drop box and pull them up randomly when I need them. (theydontpaymeenough)

And if iBooks can't open that PDF (it should) Adobe and a hundred others have iOS PDF apps out there. I'm partial to GoodReader, at least on my iPad - it's got lots of nice editing and markup features for PDFs and other files but it's not free ($3-5 I think).

You should be able to transfer it to the iPhone using iTunes. iBooks is capable of reading PDF.

Goodreader is nice too.

Something to watch for:

The thing with PDF is that the document is usually formatted to it's presented size - the size of a page of paper. The books that you buy for viewing on a device, including Apple iBooks, aren't generally made that way.

A large PDF implies spending a lot of time viewing. I suspect you'll tire of trying to look through the small viewport of an iPhone at the (likely) large pages of your PDF.

Large PDF documents don't tend to work well with dedicated e-readers either. Their processors are made for the six week battery life these devices are known for. Full-size tablets do an okay-ish job for mostly letter-size PDF documents.

I know what you are saying, it is a repair manual that you just need to see sometimes. I have the index memorized so I can get where I want easily; also, half of the manual is in Italian so I can disregard that, right?

You can probably shrink the size of the file quite significantly by running OCR it with a full version of Acrobat.