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molks Author

Level 1

9 points

How to print to a PDF

I was away from home and needed to print my boarding pass. Unfortunately my flight was with Virgin Australia and the boarding pass comes up in the website with the only option being PRINT (there is no way to save or go back and re-print) and I don't carry an airplay compatible printer when travelling!

Normally on my windows laptop I would simply print to the free PDF printer driver that I had installed previously (cutePDF writer) and I am asked for the name I wish to save the file to and it will then be "printed" to a pdf of that name. I can then email that to my hotel reception and get them to print it for me. Look I know there may be other ways to go about this like doing the whole process at reception in the first place, but the point is that the iPad is supposed to be convenient to use and should be able to provide this missing functionality. The only possible method I've found so far is to take a screen shot, but print to PDF would be better!

Does anyone know of an app that provides the ability to PRINT to PDF?

iPad, iOS 5.1

Posted on Apr 29, 2012 11:11 PM

34 replies

Jun 15, 2013 1:17 PM in response to molks

It's not the first easy to use print to pdf functionality on the iPad. Print2pdf gave that capability to the iPad over a year ago. But Apple pulled it from the App Store just a few months after it came out. If your had it installed, the upgrade to IOS 5 (I think) killed it and it never worked again...

Steve

mrbat

Level 1

4 points

Nov 17, 2013 5:13 PM in response to molks

G'day you guys, there's certainly a lot of talk and suggestions going on when there's a solution available in the App store. You need an app called PDF Print Driver which is a virtual PDF printer for the iPad and available from the print menu within any application. It's great and I've been using it for ages, one word of warning though the update to run in IOS7 unfortunately is not yet available.

Steve

Dec 15, 2013 5:19 PM in response to molks

iPad app Documents by Readdle has great features including built in browser which has ability to save to PDF without any additional tricks

Supcumps

Level 1

4 points

Mar 8, 2014 2:36 PM in response to molks

To cover the original problem of copying the airline ticket, why not simply capture the screen.?

The image will be stored with your photos

Phil

How to print to a PDF