iPad and Premium Content - syncing issues

Submitted by Steven Simmons
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I bought an iPad to allow me (among other things) to access the Manager Tools Premium Content PDFs without the need to fire up my laptop.  I carry all of my audio content (music and podcasts) on a 60GB iPod Photo and an iPad seemed like the perfect companion device to allow me to view print content while listening to audio.

iTunes indicates that it is syncing and transferring the content to the iPad but when I go into the iPod application on the iPad there are only a handful of the PDFs shown and even more frustrating is that the iPad's iPod application doesn't seem to know how to handle PDFs.

Are there any iPad users, or others, in the forums who have encountered and hopefully resolved this issue?  I know I can manually copy the PDFs over using a number of PDF reader products for the iPad but I was hoping to use the automated syncing features built into iTunes. 

Thanks,

Submitted by Edward Paffett on Monday November 15th, 2010 3:21 pm

Steve,

I just bought an iPad and can't even get it to display the slides on the enhanced podcasts while I'm listening to them. Have you figured out the answer to your problem?

Ed

Submitted by Steven Simmons on Monday November 15th, 2010 8:39 pm

Ed;
I don't have a solution to my problem yet.  I suspect your issue will be resolved when Apple releases iOS 4.2 which will allow multitasking.  This should allow you to run the iPod application to listen to the podcast and also a PDF viewer to views the slides.  iOS 4.2 was expected to be released today but has evidently been delayed due to wifi issues.
 
Steve Simmons
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Submitted by Michael Auzenne on Tuesday November 16th, 2010 2:05 pm

iOS 4.2 does solve the problem with enhanced podcasts. The issue with the enhanced podcasts isn't related to multi-tasking, but you'll enjoy the multi-tasking as well. :-)

Mike

Submitted by Michael Auzenne on Tuesday November 16th, 2010 2:12 pm

By the way, one solution to the PDF issue outlined above is to get the Apple iBooks App. If you then drag the PDFs into iTunes (drop onto Library section on the left menu), you'll then find the PDFs in iBooks.

A lot of the content I read on a daily basis is in PDFs ... I find this (and GoodReader) great ways to consume the content.

Mike

Submitted by Steve Baleno on Tuesday November 16th, 2010 7:02 pm

At one point a couple of months ago I recall new podcasts shownotes and slides automatically landed into iBooks.  I believe a newer release of iTunes 'undid' that functionality.
 
Steve
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Submitted by Edward Paffett on Friday November 19th, 2010 10:30 am

Thanks for the info, Mike and Steves!