I am having trouble printing from ipad. Some applications provide me with the option but others do not. What do I do?
iWeb '08, OS X Mountain Lion
This app is OTB it is a buying app. I had it built for me. I went back to the developer and they tell me that they see no problem. I have another app that also does not provide me with the option to print. I do have good reader installed.
Try a rest: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the iPad shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, turn the iPad back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps from the tray before doing the reset.
It means your app doesn't recognize the other available apps and options on the iPad. I certainly don't have any insight into the app's design, but logic would indicate the problem lies there. Do any of your other apps show the option to print of save to another app? Safari for example?
The print option comes up from numbers and good reader. I do have another web based ap that sends out a pdf, but does not associate it with any reader. I am unable to print as no option not even the box with the export arrow comes up.
bloxham wrote:
The print option comes up from numbers and good reader. I do have another web based ap that sends out a pdf, but does not associate it with any reader. I am unable to print as no option not even the box with the export arrow comes up.
You are unable to print in this specific app, but can in others? If that's the case, go back to your developer. The issue is likely in his app.
bloxham wrote:
I have and he indicates that he sees no issue. I am at an impass here.
Is there any way to validate or test?
Thank you for your help.
C
Without the ability to review his code, not really.
If the app was "built for you", I assume you paid for it. You are the ultimate test of its efficiency and usability. Its incumbent on the developer to verify and prove the functionality is available as requested and designed. Not you.
Ok, now I have another web based service that I am having trouble printing from. The developer tells me this:
It would appear that for printing purposes from the I-Pad you will have to
go the site through Safari and use its printing functionality, unfortunately
due to the design and set-up of the I-Pad there is no other option short of
writing a native app.
Is this correct? If other apps such as numbers or pages can simply provide me with the option to print has this developer not understood that there are apps on the ipad that will print this document for me and not coded for this?
Thanks
C
You need new developers. I have at least two dozen (likely more) apps on my iPad capable of printing to an AirPrint enabled printer. It absolutly can be done. They simply do not have the skills to do it.
I am the developer of the second web app, and the issue is that this is not a native app we are speaking of. This is a web app that is being run in Full Screen mode and is creating a pdf with automatic printing. This works fine for desktops and if the site is opened in Safari on the I-Pad you can use the print function of Safari to print the pdf. However in Full Screen mode I know of no way to print the pdf. Embedded script in the pdf to automatically print does not work. window.print() in javascript will not work in iOS < 5. Even trying to force a download will not work as it does not pick-up the headers I send.
If you have any other ideas on how to do this I am all ears, but from everything I have read the Full Screen web apps use the UIWebView, however you cannot use XCode commands from a website so you cannot call any print functions or interact with any other apps on the device.
Mediateknix wrote:
I am the developer of the second web app, and the issue is that this is not a native app we are speaking of. This is a web app that is being run in Full Screen mode and is creating a pdf with automatic printing. This works fine for desktops and if the site is opened in Safari on the I-Pad you can use the print function of Safari to print the pdf. However in Full Screen mode I know of no way to print the pdf. Embedded script in the pdf to automatically print does not work. window.print() in javascript will not work in iOS < 5. Even trying to force a download will not work as it does not pick-up the headers I send.
If you have any other ideas on how to do this I am all ears, but from everything I have read the Full Screen web apps use the UIWebView, however you cannot use XCode commands from a website so you cannot call any print functions or interact with any other apps on the device.
Then in fact you are not developing an iOS app, but a website. Not the same thing at all, and yes, there are restrictions preventing the browser from accessing some functions (via sandboxing). Safari also doesn't support full screen mode. You might check the developers forum for direction, but I don't printing from via javasctipt is an option.
I know this not a native iOS app, I've been saying that all along. As far as full screen mode, that is relatively simple. You save the site to the desktop and include a meta tag in the html and it goes into full screen mode on the iPad. It was developed this way so that the same codebase could be used on any device, be it iPad, Desktop, Android Tablet or Blackberry Tablet, at the customers request. As stated previously, if you go to the site in Safari on the iPad you can use Safari's print option to print it. I have searched everywhere I could for a way to print from this sandboxed environment, but have yet to come up with a solution.
Not all apps provide for printing. Use an app such as Adobe Reader or Good Reader that has this function.
How do I get the pdf to the reader. See the screen shot of what I get. No option provided:
What app is that in? And do you have Reader installed?
can not print from ipad some pdf
