Ask Tim Grey - PDF on iPad

Question: Is there a way I can save Digital Darkroom Quarterly to Pages, iBooks, or Kindle on my iPad? Or any other app on my iPad?

Tim's Answer: This question is only tangentially related to digital imaging by virtue of my Digital Darkroom Quarterly publication being of interest to digital photographers, but since I have received quite a few inquiries about being able to view Digital Darkroom Quarterly on iPads and iPhones, I thought I would address the question here (plus it gives me yet another chance for a gratuitous plug of my publication).

You can indeed view Digital Darkroom Quarterly (or any other PDF document) on your iPad, and in fact I use this at events to show attendees what the publication looks like or to allow them to read a particular article they're interested in. The process is actually quite simple.

The first step is to add the PDF of Digital Darkroom Quarterly to your iTunes library. With iTunes up and running, simply drag the PDF from its location onto the Library area near the top-left corner of the iTunes interface. This will add the PDF document to your library, so it is available to sync to your devices.

Next, plug in your iPad (or iPhone) to the computer so it can be synchronized. Click on the iPad in the Devices list at the left side of iTunes, and then click Books in the navigation bar at the top-center of the iTunes interface. Make sure the Sync Books checkbox is turned on, and then either turn on All Books or choose Selected Books and turn on the checkbox for each document you would like to have available on your iPad. Then click the Sync button at the bottom-right of iTunes.

When the sync process is complete, launch the iBooks app on your iPad. To find the PDF, you can go to the Library, then click Collections and choose PDFs. A list of all PDF documents that have been synchronized will be listed, including any issues of Digital Darkroom Quarterly you've added.

If you've turned on the All Books option for synchronizing your iPad, with each new issue of Digital Darkroom Quarterly all you need to do is drag the PDF to the Library section of iTunes and click the Sync button, and the new issue will be ready for you to read in iBooks.

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