Anybody else lose Save2PDF functionality?

GDUnderhill3rd-

Contact the Save2PDF authors to find out what happened. They may be working on a solution, or Apple may have put a roadblock in their way.

It also might help if you contact Apple and let them know. They may not be aware that the update caused your problem. Go to <iPad Feedback>.

Fred

Like you, I depended on Save2PDF for a lot of things. From what I read in another thread, Apple no longer allows apps to use the Airprint function. I was very sad.

Take a look at iCab Mobile. It has a Web to PDF module that will allow you to capture and save web pages as PDFs. It works pretty well and has kept me from crying. 🙂

Best of luck.

That's rotten news about Save2PDF as I have relied on it to keep documents accessible via Dropbox.

If you need to PDF a web page, you're in luck as you can paste the URL directly into the Web Pages tab of Save2PDF and do the conversion that way.

I just tested it out with this page. :-)

You might have a look at Convert To PDF, not sure if it works the same way. (you copy a whole web page and past to the app; it then lets you convert to PDF.) You don't send a page via the print to... command.

As a temporary workaround, if I need a web receipt from my iPad I'm going to just take a screen shot.

No solution though for my practice of easily converting Word, etc docs to PDF.

I'm sending feedback to the developer and to Apple.

I just sent feedback both to Apple and to Eurosmartz. Eurosmartz confirmed what had changed. I then emailed Apple with my displeasure that they had removed functionality.

FYI - there is a browser in Save2PDF, so you could use that browser to pay your bills and then print the screen from there. However, the Save2PDF is not as good as Safari IMHO.

Since iOS 5 you just have to make sure you start save2pdf before any application that you want to print a PDF from. Works fine if you do that.

That was certainly true with iOS 4. But it doesnt work for me with iOS 5.

Hmmmmm, then I think I know what happened... when I installed PDF Printer it didn't work, buuuut save2pdf started allowing me to print. A very very strange workaround that I had to spend another 5 bucks to do, but nonetheless it works now.

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this was the reply from Eurosmartz

Apple's latest release of iOS 5 has changed the way apps are able to interact with the device. This now means that the one of the printing features in this app for printing from other apps via the AirPrint method is no longer available. Apple's changes for iOS have removed this functionality for all apps - not just ours. All other printing options from other apps via this app are still available and you can still continue to use your existing printer(s).

iOS Apps are restricted by features of the OS and the device so there is no option to bypass the iOS restrictions, however we are working on other enhancements in the app.

We invest a huge amount of our resources in the ongoing development of our apps to ensure our apps provide the most possible printing features for Apple devices. While we are obviously very disappointed that Apple have removed this feature of iOS, our apps were still the best printing apps on the App Store before this feature as we have so many other printing features.

Our staff have been working overtime to evaluate this iOS change. While it is devastating for them to lose one of the app features that everyone put so much time and effort into, we all remain committed to providing the best permissible improvements to our apps for our customers, as we have done in the past.

It's possible to use free software (Virtualbox and Ubuntu) to fix the broken iOS 5 Airprint printing with non supported printers. Here's a fix that works on my imac, but should also work on even a windows pc.

My setup is a lion imac with 2 non-airprint supported usb printers attached, a belkin wifi router that provides network connectivity for my imac, ipad, and iphone.

Install ubuntu 11.10 in a virtualbox vm. Specify to use the "Bridged Adapter" with "en1: WiFi (AirPort)" for the network hardware. Make sure the imac's usb printers are setup with sharing. On ubuntu, select System Settings > Printers and add your imac's shared printers to the list. Then start ubuntu's firefox and set "localhost:631" in the address. On the administration tab, under the Server section, check "Share printers connected to this system" and hit Change Settings button to activate it. Go back to ubuntu's printer setup, and right click on each printer and check that the properties Policies tab does not have any messages about it being unshared. If so, then go back to firefox and make sure the Server sharing checkbox is enabled. It may help to reboot.

Fire up virtualbox to be able to use AirPort printing to your imac's usb printers, when you want to print from the iphone or ipad. This also works on iOS 5.

Only problem is error message from iphone to check the printer for errors, even though it actually prints ok.