Hi Catherine and Joel,
I haven't played with this much, because the eBook options and
capabilities have been changing too rapidly recently. But iBooks has
support for PDFs now. The question is, whether it navigates correctly
and bookmarks, as opposed to straight reading, which can be handled
for documents. PDFs could always be added to the iTunes library. In
fact, there was a software product early on to use iTunes to organize
and store PDF research papers with tagged information. It should be
possible to make an audio file out of a PDF file and put it on the
iPod Touch, but it would take more resources and space. The new iOS4
release seems to support quite a lot, so having VoiceOver read the PDF
on the fly in iBooks would be worth exploring. You'd just check the
entries you wanted on the "Books" tab. Also, Stanza started
supporting PDFs very recently, but I'm pretty sure you'd still have
bookmarking issues if you played these in Stanza. PDF documents can
now be separately uploaded to Stanza, and some other applications, on
the Applications tab for the device. There's a new section after the
table of applications where you can select the list of apps with
document transfer, and then check the listed documents for that app.
I'm not sure whether you could pick up the reading position when you
sync. You could do this if you made the document into an audiobook,
but it would occupy more space and take more resources to transform.
I think you could use GhostReader, if you have that, as an easy way to
create an audiofile. Or, you could set up an automator action to do
this. I've just never done this for a PDF file, since I can read them
directly, and a lot more easily on my Mac.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
Joel Zimba wrote:
I did notice that I have a few pdfs in my books section of itunes.
I'm not sure how I got them there... nor what to do with them
exactly, it would be great if ibooks learned to read them, as I'm
more and more impressed with it as I play.
J
On Jun 21, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Catherine Kudlick wrote:
Hi All,
Someone just sent me a long book manuscript as a pdf. If I wanted
to read it on the go on my ipod touch, what's the best way to do
it? Should I use voiceover? Or is it true that it's possible to
convert the pdf to a spoken word text that I could access through
itunes? If so, how do I do this? And is it easier to use in
itunes than in VO? For example, can you set the pace of speech in
these itunes files or mark your place?
Also, can what I read be sync-ed between devices? For example if I
start reading it on my Macbook Pro but then want to pick up on my
ipod, would it sync to where I left off?
Thanks so much, cathy
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