Comments on: WildEyes: New iPhone Document Viewer App from Databinge

By: dannythomson

dannythomson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:16:41 +0000

exactly patrick, Ive also uploaded all pds and docs and everything to my website server then just open up those in safari, but im sure they take longer to load and all, but it does sure save alot of space. Thanks Thou

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:17:29 +0000

dannythomson - good point. I think you need to think about having maybe some docs that are permanent good reference items (if you need any) and then some which are just copied over to the iPhone when needed, and deleted afterwards - depending of course on what your overall free space situation is …

By: dannythomson

dannythomson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:15:42 +0000

once installed and once you start adding all the .pdf and documents, wouldnt that free of space quickly, even with large files placed in var/mobile

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:36:13 +0000

macgirl - The app’s developer might correct me, but I think there is no in-built bookmarking functionality, as it uses Mobile Safari to actually do the viewing of docs.

But … this reminded me that one of the touted features of webclips is that they will remember your specific place on a page etc. I’d never played with that feature much, but just tried it out with a 19 page .pdf doc. I created a web clip while on the first para of Page 11 of the doc. Then cleared Safaris’ cache and rebooted the iPhone just for kicks. Launched the webclip and was happily back at my exact place in the doc.

By: macgirl

macgirl — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:39:19 +0000

Nice find! I’ll have to try this one out since I can’t get PDF Viewer to work for me, for some reason. Does it allow you to bookmark pages, or at least open a document to the last page viewed? I’ve got an ebook PDF with over 300 pages, and I can’t bear flicking through the whole thing to get to the last page I was reading every time I open it up…