Does iBooks support pdf files?

After April 3 there will no doubt be a feedback channel for the iPad on this page. Make sure you repeat all those views there so they will get to Apple and they can take them into account in future updates:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I'm downloading it now (7:28 A.M. PDT, 2 Apr 10) and will see what I can find out.

OK, under Requirements it says:

"iBooks only supports books published in the ePub electronic book format.
"To add ePub documents from Outside the iBookstore to iBooks, they must be DRM-free and synced to iPad using iTunes 9.1"



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On a possibly related note, I was just advised that an update for my iPhone Kindle app was available. I downloaded it and the app was moved from the "iPhone and iPod Touch" section to the "iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad" section of the Apps Library in iTunes on my Mac. So any Kindle books you may have will run on the iPad.

For your Mac:

http://mekentosj.com/papers/

For your iPhone/iPod Touch:

http://mekentosj.com/papers/iphone/

Which now includes iPad support:

http://mekentosj.com/papers/ipad/

I sync a portion of my Papers library to my iPhone and, although it's not practical to read them there, it's really handy to be able to refer to them. The iPad support addresses this and you don't even need the Mac application. You can sync your papers elsewhere, although I'm unsure of the details.

If you want a really Pro result then Adobe InDesign is a great way to make Epub; failing that as an expectation then whatever PDF conversion apps are available for free might be acceptable solution for now.

ibooks does not support PDF's. I have loaded a bunch of epub's that do not have DRM in them and they all work well. If you try to add PDF's in itunes they show up under music, not the books, and you can not view them on the ipad.

I am very disappointed in this. If I would have known that it was not supported gracefully I probably would have not purchased it until it was fixed.

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If I would have known that it was not supported gracefully I probably would have not purchased it until it was fixed.

As far as I can remember, Apple never once since Jan. 27 implied iBooks could do anything other than ePub. But let them know what you want here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

so basically i will need a 3rd party app to display pdf files?

so basically i will need a 3rd party app to display pdf files?

The method provided by Apple is as an email attachment.

You can also use something like Dropbox or Evernote...
Dropbox doesn't have their ipad app yet, but they say their iPhone app SHOULD work.
...and I have used both to get pdfs to my iPhone

I just added several dozen unprotected epubs from the Baen free library, at www.baen.com/library. Pretty great stuff.

I, too, would love a built-pdf solution. I currently have my PDFs stored in Google docs, available via safari, and on my iDisk, available via the iphone/ipod iDisk app. Given that the app was not updated for the iPad, I suspect something better is in the works.

I dropped some PDF into iTunes. They end up in the Music section. If you double click them in iTunes, Preview will display them. I made a SmartPlaylist for PDF, and synced that with my iPhone. You can no longer see them, although I believe they did sync across.

While iBooks is probably the wrong application for viewing a PDF, it seems a real pity Apple do not make it easy for one of the PDF viewing apps to display a PDF synced in this manner.

Send feedback to Apple. If enough people ask, they may do a feature enhancement.

i converted ppdf to epub in http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/howto_createepub and upload it to Ibook using itunes! it crashes what the work around?

Could you please email me the reply for this post. Because I have a lot of pdf that I want to view and I wish I book could support that !!!

i converted ppdf to epub in http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/howto_createepub and upload it to Ibook using itunes! it crashes what the work around?

Try a different way of converting. There is no guarantee that any particular system that converts pdf to epub will create something actually usable. pdf is the very worst format to convert to anything.