[Elecraft] [K3] PDF manuals on iBooks

[Mike KS7D]

Ron,

The bmp images all show up in iBooks, but the jpegs do not for the most part. For example, the images on the cover page and pages 10, 11, 13, 22, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 45 are missing.

Mike ks7d

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:45 AM, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:

> All the images in the P3 manual, other than the "screen shots", are
> originally jpg's -(not jpg2000). The jpg is dropped into a vector drawing
> program to add the arrows, callouts, etc., and that is converted into the
> final jpg that is inserted into the manual. 
> 
> The screen shots that do not have any callouts are BMPs captured using the
> P3 utility and dropped straight into the manual. They were not converted to
> jpgs. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Ron AC7AC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> I agree that GoodReader is generally better than iBooks for reading
> pdf's on an iPad, but Giuseppe's discovery applies to GoodReader too.
> Not all images in the P3 manual display on the iPad, and saving a new
> version of the pdf from Preview makes everything show up, though the
> difference is invisible on a Mac.
> 
> It's not every image that causes problems, though, as if they were
> created in more than one program and assembled from several sources.
> Which makes sense.  So, many of the manuals are probably completely
> ok, and you will find problems only when your iPad version has a blank
> area that should have an image or figure in it.
> 
>     Peter W0LLN
> 
> 
> 
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