Print to PDF for iOS: The killer alternative to AirPrint

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With Print to PDF, you can turn e-mails, Web pages, and other documents into PDFs for viewing and sharing.

(Credit: Enrique Rodriguez)

Here's the problem with AirPrint: not nearly enough printers support it. Plus, there's that whole consumables thing. Aren't we supposed to be living in a paperless society?

Print to PDF for iOS solves both problems, allowing you to "print" e-mails, Web pages, and documents as PDFs right on your iDevice. It's a clever app, one that works much like PrimoPDF and other utilities for Windows.

In other words, it intercepts just about anything that uses the iOS print command and generates a PDF instead of a piece of paper.

All you do is run Print to PDF, then switch to any other app that supports printing. Tap the Print command, choose Print to PDF as your printer (a one-time task), and then tap Print again. The process may take a few seconds, depending on the length of the item. When it's done, you'll have the option of instantly switching to the app to view your new PDF.

Print to PDF cleverly organizes output into saved e-mails, saved Web pages, and "other" prints (i.e. stuff that comes from other... [Read more]

Rick Broida 23 Aug, 2011

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