WOiP Tip – View PDFs On An iPhone With Ease
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Sometimes the best iPhone applications aren’t iPhone applications at all. This is a good example.
Now that it is possible to transfer, carry, and view PDF files on an iPhone or iPod Touch I carry a reference library worth of PDF’s with me everywhere. No, it isn’t the easiest viewing I’ve experienced, nor is navigation a large PDF’s pretty, but it does work and I like knowing that, in a pinch, I have access to some of the more important resource material I use.
One trick that’s been rather useful as been using a little Mac application called PDFShrink. back in October I wrote a post about how much easier it is to load and navigate PDFs once they’ve been reduced in size by the application.
That was nice — this is better.
An update to the application has now added a setting for reducing PDF files to "iPhone rendered" documents. It now makes the entire file, including images, were easily viewed on the handheld devices.
It took a 3.8MB PDF file and reduced it to just under 500KB. Not only does the handheld handle the files more easily due to the reduction in size, but both images and text remained sharp and easy to read.
My entire library of PDFs is currently undergoing a similar weight loss. If you use a Mac and carry PDF files on your iPhone or Touch the $35 cost of the app is well worth it. PDFShrink is available HERE. A free trial is available.
