A v1 version of a Macworld page in GoodReader . ( Click to zoom.)It may come as a jounce to readers of Macworld.com , but the very editorial brass that produce the content on this site is also creditworthy for producing roughly 60 powder magazine pages every month ( along with the occasional Superguide ) . Though much of what ’s in the magazine originates online , it ’s usually update , re - edit out , compressed to fit the print formatting , and often reformatted to take honest vantage of the culture medium .
As we ’re place together each issue , our design and copy departments mail out PDFs of pages in two different stage . Early on in the process , we get a “ v1 ” PDF the right way after the textbook has been place and the initial layouts are done . At this point , we ’ve got time to make out bragging trouble and posit them . later on , ordinarily with less than 24 hours before the pages transport off to the printer , we ’ll get a second set of PDFs — that ’s the time for last - min emergency change . Because unlike the World Wide Web , where we can ( and sometimes do ) pay off our mistakes after we write , in mark we only get one scene .
Since I got my iPad , I ’ve been attempt to come up an effective way to stretch these PDFs so I can interpret them on my bus drive home . Ideally they ’d just magically synchronise to my iPad , but that has n’t work yet . So here ’s what I ’ve been doing .
A v1 version of a Macworld page in GoodReader. (Click to zoom.)
First , I ’ve set up a couple of filter in Gmail that give a specific label to the messages which contain these PDFs . That was pretty simple : The From field is place to(Rob OR Kate ) , the Subject field of study set to(28- AND ready for ) , and the Has Attachment box is checked . ( The From field is set to the names of our designers and the Subject subject field is fix to the naming rule they employ in their vitamin E - ring mail , which have guinea pig such as “ 28 - 08 MacUser quick for CE . ” . )
Browsing Gmail - labeled substance in GoodReader . ( snap to zoom.)I’m using GoodReader for iPad as my PDF reader . It ’s bring a crew of networking features , let in a filing cabinet - sync feature . Among the “ Indian file server ” GoodReader get you connect to is an electronic mail account , so I lend the my Gmail explanation ( IMAP version ) to GoodReader ’s Connect to Servers taste . Now when I wiretap on the mail waiter from GoodReader , it lists all my Gmail labels , include Macworld PDFs . Another hydrant and I can see all the messages containing fastening ; a couple more taps and those PDFs are right on my iPad , quick for reading .
It works , but it ’s not as automatic or as leisurely as I ’d like . I ’ve render some other approaches , centered on GoodReader ’s power to use Dropbox . Using Mail rules to file PDFs into my Dropbox leaflet seemed like an estimate , but make unnecessary attachments from Mail by rule requires some foxy AppleScript , and even then , it only work when my computer is on and contain mail .
Browsing Gmail-labeled messages in GoodReader. (Click to zoom.)
Using a Gmail rule to forward a message into my Dropbox news report also seemed smart , until I realized that Dropbox still does n’t offer an electronic mail - to - Dropbox feature ! TheSend to Dropboxwebsite seemed like a workaround , but it proved to be unreliable , and I ’m not trusted I want to pass my document through an fundamentally obscure third party .
