"Wilton" <wilton.hart@gmail.com> on Mon, 28 May 2012 15:47:51 -0000:
>The real issue is that the iPad is a media consumption device not a creation device. It does not have a true file system that lets you move files you have created, from one application to another easily. This is solved by using a cloud service but it takes a lot more steps to get something done.
Well, iOS does have a proper file system. The user is allowed to
create and exchange images (still and moving) rather smoothly.
However, this file system is flawed by design (data in a subdirectory
of the app), and above all: it lacks a proper file manager.
Metaphorically speaking: the tracks are there, but hardly any train
services are allowed to operate. Hello, Cloud!
I must admit that Apple thus provides some protection for the user
(mainly against himself), but in my opinion the cure is worse than the
disease.
>It can also be solved by creating .pdf file but this is slow and takes a lot of extra steps.
Yes, some page-layout data have to be inserted - for nothing.
>There is a third solution used by HP. Their printers each have an email address. You can email your file directly to the printer which gets around the Apple limitations. If you think about this solution, HP sends the file to their mail server instead of a cloud storage device.
As I understand "ePrint", no mail server is used. The user has the
printer up and connected to his home (or office) network, and (after
configuration) the app sends the file at once and directly to that
server (the printer) on that network.
Involving a mail server would require a mail client (likely that
printer) to actively poll the mail server for messages.
>I know that Quick Office is working on an internal printing application and that would solve my problem someday.
You might also want to look at p31 of the iPad User Guide (for iOS
5.1.1) for a kist of the Apple apps that can use AirPrint and for the
URL <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4356> for the printer side of the
matter.
But then, I forgot the details of the circumstances of your wife's
job.
>I was hoping that someone might have a solution that was available now. The iPad gives you web access and it seems logical that people might purchase airline tickets or anything else that has a text file output. Unless you have a compatible wireless printer, you are in the same situation.
I seem to remember that a minor public transport operator here in the
Netherlands doesn't require tickets purchased on-line to be printed.
(We're moving to a nationwide chip-card system anyway.)
Finally, I invite you to another look at my previous message:
>> I don't have the non-Cloud solution for your problem.
>>
>> However, I wonder if the core of the matter might be in
>> interpretations of the word "note". (Like "some reminder for myself",
>> "informal letter to someone else", here apparently "medical status
>> update", etc.)
>>
>> Sorting this out might help in selecting an apt app for this task.
--
Chris Laarman
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