ios5 killed printing by Print and Share

Hi Mcklintoc

Thanks for jumping in but this program which is resident on a PC or Mac has already been available from Print n Share I think they call it weeprint. Anyway the whole idea defeats the object of independence now touted for the iPad i.e. iCloud etc.

What all us need is the reinstatement of direct printing from the iPad no ifs or buts and no PC/Mac workarounds.

Cheers

Please make no mistake, I 100% agree this situation Apple has put us in is unacceptable, and needs to be resolved. My link isn't a resolution, but perhaps some tools like this will make it partially bearable while we wait for a better solution. My primary printing usage doing something Windows PC based that allowed my home printer to be seen that was "free" before was also broken at the same time as the topics of this post. I would guess some other folks on this thread were also broken who used this model.

Mcklintoc & Bryn -

Another 'work around' PC/Mac based solution is FingerPrint from Collobos, http://www.collobos.com/. This and the Mac only Printopia areviable alternative 'work arounds' to Apples arrogance.

FingerPrint actually works better than WePrint with more functionality like 'pinting' to Send to Dropbox, Microsoft XPS Document and it immediately found BOTH of my wireless printers.

Also has a 'print to' Open on my PC which is pretty nifty becase it opens in a window on my PC which I can then do anythjing to it as if it was a natiive document open on my PC. I can even print to or save as an Adobe PDF file, which I need for emailing document.

I'm no longer a 'road warrior' so unlike Bryn I'm typically 'teathered' around a Mac/PC 95% of time.

Apple's still arrogant, and we need to continue to keep their feet to the fire to correct this. [That is IF Apple is paying any attention at all to all these ticked off customers, which I seriously doubt.] They still need to correct their error, but with FingerPrint I now have at lease one viable alternative.

Steve

Oh, I forgot to add that FingePrint has a FREE 7 day Trial so you can try it and if don't like just quit.

This is why people Jailbreak their iPhones and iPads.

It is for useful apps, such as lockinfo (before iOS 5), manual correct (before you could disable auto-correct from the spellcheck features separately) and I assume there is/will be an iPad app, only available in the frowned upon Jailbroken community that solves this very problem.

In situations like this, people are forced to Jailbreak their devices - just to be able to use them the way that they are supposed to be used. In which case Apple will hate them for doing it, drag their names through the mud, and then fix the problem in iOS 5.1. (After claiming there never was a problem, like the proximity sensor - or the low signal quality.)

Hi Since 2001

We have hit a raw nerve at Apple they have removed recent posts hope to escalate this situation!! Read into that what you like !

Are there any downsides re jail breaking the iPad!

A foreshadowing of PDF-EPUB wars? I too am pretty ****** that there isn't basic PDF or even postScript support but I'm guessing that since apple dropped Adobe flash, they may also drop Adobe PDF in favor of EPUB format.

Slightly off topic but still relevant, the latest iBook upgrade states that "Some PDF documents may not be compatible with iBooks.". I'm guessing adobe has fu-ed with the spec even more by adding more unnecessary garbage that Apple will not support (good for apple!). PDF was great when it first came out but now in its mutated irradiated form, it needs to die and die quickly!

Regardless, we still need an interim solution...

As was said on a previous post by somebody else "Apple have lost me as a customer". I was going to buy another iPad as a Christmas present for my wife but due the experience expressed in this thread plus no Flash it's pointless. Will now take a look at other tablet products.

Bryn -

Wise choice. Unfortunately I just bought my wife her iPad2, at the same time I updated to iOS 5. It wasn't until after those events that I ran into this, (yet another) example of Apple's seemingly unbounded arrogance.

I think in this blog we may have uncovered the root of this entire mess, It all seems to boild down to Apple's ongoing fight with Adobe for Adobe's being able to write a better PDF program than Apple. I email 100;s of 'attachments' every day at work - we are a Mac PC house. Many of these emails can have 4 to 6 of these attachments, so it's important to keep these files small.

In order to make these attachment more "email friendly" (i.e., small file size) I "save as" or "Print to" PDF's all of the time. But, because Apple refuses to fully and seemlessly suppot Adobe as a 'native program', I have to first Save as an Apple PFD and THEN I open that file and Print it using Adobe 9.0 to reduce it to an email sized file.

E.g., I just printed a Brochure/Datasheet from the Internet and did this exact process. The Apple PDF file was 526 KB, the Adobe PDF file was 64 KB.

And now, as you righly have pointed out, Apple's Adobe PDF 'wa'r has spilled over into Adobe's Flash, so two very visible, very popular, industry standard services are not supported on the iPad in iOS 5 because of Apple's Printis envy.

Strike 2 Apple! (Flash and now this)

I enjoy the features, quality and functionality of your products; however when you exhibit such arrogance and blatant disregard for your customers it becomes hard to accept these "anti-anything but apple" gestures.

I purchased this app and used it with joy; a little annoyed I had to purchase something to do this in the first place, but I was willing to let that go. Then you cut out such functionality in iOS5; not very friendly at all.

I will refrain from any further Apple purchases and make sure my network understands my choice for doing so until such time Apple decides to correct their direction.

I'm in the same boat. Why would Apple do this? I've used Save2PDF and it was a fantastic app, not being able to print via a 3rd party just takes away so much of the functionality that I had with my iPhone. Apple please have this capability returned to it's original status. It seems for every great leap they make forward, they make a silly stupid leak backward.

YES! Apple PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE make this print to PDF functionality to work again!!! I have saved reams of paper by printing e-mails and document to PDF and storing it in iBooks. It was an awesome app!!! If you're not going to allow 3rd party developers to print to standard format paperless documents like PDF that's fine, but then implement the functionality directly in iOS yourselves. DON'T JUST TAKE IT AWAY FROM US!!! I love Apple products, but when these kind of decisions are made, it is mind-boggling. I'm sure you have a good reason for it... so, please tell us... it's obvious your loyal customers want to know why you took away from them a piece of functionality that was very important to their daily workflows.

Thanks,
Matt

Same thing here.

Come on I can't believe this, there must be an error...it wil be fixed on 5.1.2....

Hopefully....!!

Apple,

Please fix it, this is totally unacceptable. Thank you!

Add me to the list of very dissatisfied customers. Is Apple really this arrogant?