Normally on my iPhone I'm able to simply click on the PDF attachment at the bottom of an email and it opens for me to read but I just got an iPad and it doesn't seem to do that. When I click attachments in my email nothing happens. But for instance when I try to open attachments I have saved in Dropbox they open perfectly fine.
iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1.1
I had the situation where part of the text of the pdf was shown when the email was opened rather than as an attachmend.
I found after a bit of experimenting that if I forwarded the email to myself I then had appeared as a pdf attachment. If you then hold your finger over the icon for the attachment rather than just tap, the Ipad selection window comes up which allows you to select "Copy to adobe acrobat". Doing this makes it open correctly.
I notice the internet has many people having problems with Ipads and PDFs.
I found after a bit of experimenting that if I forwarded the email to myself it then appeared as a pdf attachment. If you then hold your finger over the icon for the attachment rather than just tap, the Ipad selection window comes up which allows you to select "Copy to adobe acrobat". Doing this makes it open correctly.
I notice the internet has many people having problems with Ipads and PDFs.
That unfortunately didn't work. Holding down the attachment highlights it in gray but nothing else. It's like the mail client doesn't even know what type of file it is or something. Conversely if I try opening the attachment in gmail through safari, it works fine
Nope, I've tried tapping, holding down for a few seconds...the only thing that happens is the attachment icon sort of twitches for a sec
Well something has changed since IOS came out. I can't open email attachments anymore in all apps.
Up until say 3 weeks ago I would tap on an email attachment (a PDF) and a menu of apps would appear. Normally I would choose Goodreader or iBooks to open the PDF. No problems. My iPad2 would switch to the app and open the PDF.
Now that IOS 6 is out when you touch the email attachment icons appear. Goodreader and iBook show up. But when i touch either one of these icons nothing happens. It won't switch to the app and open the PDF anymore.
Two other things. I do have other apps that appear such as PDFSplicer. If i choose it the iPad2 switches to that app and opens the PDF. It's only Goodreader and iBook that won't work anymore.
second, I went to my local Apple store and talked to the guys at the genius bar. I demonstrated the problem to them. They said it looks like a bug and suggested I send a bug report to apple. Never heard back from them.
Any ideas?
Did you install Adobe Reader before you do that?
Safari doesn't save the file.
Try a Reset [Hold the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons down together for 10 seconds or so (until the Apple logo appears) and then release. The screen will go blank and then power ON again in the normal way.] It is app and data safe!
Also, resend the email in question, delete the original, and try again.
Nope. All apps are up to date.
I'm going to archive all of the PDFs currently stored in iBooks and then delete iBooks and try reinstalling it. I see earlier in this thread someone tried that but it had no effect. But at this point I am really frustrated.
Hmm, I'm not quite sure what's going on. Prthaps you could try tapping and holding and see if it says Open in iBooks.
That didn't work. However! I just realized that if I go to the "all mail" folder of my mailbox instead of looking at the email within my inbox it actually will open.
1. Install free Adobe Reader App.
2. Hold down attachment and "Open In" Adobe Reader
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Alan is probably right; the attachment is corrupted.
Are there any updates pending for the two apps in question?
Why can I not open PDF email attachments?
