iPhone Files

rctneil

rctneil

rctneil

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Hey. I am looking to get an iPhone in January. I have a folder of PDF's on my desktop pc which would be great to read on the go through the iphone. I have seen a variety of PDF readers on the app store and I know the iPhone can view PDF's natively. Does the iPhone have some sort of file explorer to store these pdf's? If I download a pdf reader from the app store, how do I actually open a pdf. How do I get my pdf's onto the iphone?
 
The iPhone sandbox model means that each application has it's own files and there's no shared file area so the PDF application would need to store those files local to it.

You could have those PDFs on a secure website and browse them using Safari but that's far from ideal

There's probably a large number of PDF readers (even free ones) because the iPhone has native API support for reading and rendering it.
 
I have Air Sharing (about £3 on the App Store I think), it can launch and view most file types including PDF, RTF, Various MS Office and whichever video formats the iPhone Quicktime supports.

Getting files on is easy as it mounts as a WebDAV drive (native support on Mac and I think Windows Vista upwards) and you just drag and drop files on.
 
I can confirm there is loads of free PDF readers for the iPhone. One of them is FTPDisc Lite. It basically creates an FTP connection on the phone that you can connect to as long as you're on the same network, transfer all the documents to it and read them. The only thing is that you can't then transfer the PDF to your personal storage area as Apple seem to have blocked that from applications though the guidelines for applications.
 
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