How do you access Preview documents on iCloud?

I reported this as feature bug here:

https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/18/wo/PpkZOJ3b60BtoX SlaPrygg/9.49

Please keep it hot if you feel the pain of not being able to access your iCloud Docs anywhere everywhere via your iOS devices... Thanks!

We know but we also know that many users are Apple employees and how hard can it be to release a Preview version for iOS?

Thanks for the link i3dmaster.

I reported it as well. Everyone just has to keep reporting this!

This is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe there's no way to access Preview documents on my iOS device using iCloud. Pages doesn't support opening PDF files either so I can't open my PDF files with Pages and link them to iCloud. Even worse, Pages on my iOS device doesn't have the fonts I have on my MacBook so I can't properly open the original documents on my iPhone and either email them or export them to PDF.

Perhaps a rather crude work around, but I am traveling with my iPad for the first time tmr and needed access to a 62 page .pdf document.

So I set up an email account (well actually used a dormant one) on the iPad and emailed the document. Then by clicking on the attachment was offered to open it in iBooks. Done...it is now on my iPad shelf!

So I actually used THE cloud (via email) rather than iCloud...:)

But so silly that Apple have missed this...

This isn't a overlook. It's a problem with bandwidth. PDF's can be gigantic in size (2-3gb from what I own). Currently there is no way for apple to make simple incremental backups on these files (like iWork). Therefore if a change is made it would have to upload (x)MB/GB to the cloud and then download (x) to all your iOS devices. This would take forever in some cases (large files). Since apple is more of an "it all works, or nothing" type company they probably chose to exclude this until they can figure out how to deal with pdf's.

I found this out bc I was using a 250MB pdf in Preview and couldn't figure out why my home internet was slow sometimes. A UBD process kept working and I linked that to "iCoud". It was constantly trying to sync my pdf file to my other computers hogging all bandwidth.

Same type syncing is done in dropbox except dropbox doesn't hog all the badwidth like iCloud does. You can actually set dropbox bandwidth limits.

Hope this helps someone....just my 2cents to the world.

Apologies if I don't have everything correct...

This is a clever way to deal with it, and good for you for figuring out a temporary solution, but as you say, it's hardly ideal. Surely most of the world isn't going to figure this one out; and every the most Mac-savvy users are occassionally going to slip up and forget to copy some documents to the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder The only advantage I see to your solution is that the doc would be available on the phone without an Internet connection, as opposed to through iCloud (if it were possible).

I agree with Mike Stitzer's comments below—the best thing to do is tell Apple that we see an unmet need. That's how things change: http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html

While you are on icloud.com you can go to https://developer.icloud.com/ and click on documents, you'll be able to download any documents you saved to your icloud account even if you are not a registered developer

Brilliant!! Thank you for the tip HassanG!! 😀

We still need a way to access these files on iOS

True that... but it's a start...

Don't believe this is applicable to iOS devices - https://developer.icloud.com/

On these devices, via their browsers, your just directed to the iCloud welcome page where your advised on setting up iCloud for your device and to install "Find My..." apps.

You're right, but a different iOS browser (for example "Downloads HD" / in the settings choose "Identify Browser as": Firefox 10) lets you open https://developer.icloud.com/ without any problems and you even can download the files... then open in any app you want.

This is a good tip, but it seems to me pretty strange that to solve a problem ICloud has we have to use a third party SW by tricking out the Apple server. This is not the way it should be, but the tip is great, thanX

I think this is still under testing from Apple, this reminds me of Notes and reminders which were not in iCloud online version initially and were in the "beta/developer" part of icloud untill the official final release. I guess soon we'll see something simillar to iDisk added to iCloud, just when they make it perfect! or when a new iOS version is released.