Another great thing about GoodReader - saving PDFs from Safari

Say you are going to a conference and you want to download a campus map.  It's easy to open a link to a PDF file from within Safari.  However, if you don't have 3G, and no access to a wi-fi network upon your destination, you may not have access to the PDF map in your browser.  Obviously, you would want to somehow download it to your iPad.

I found the following trick very useful:

1) "Select All" and "Copy" the address from your safari browser

2) Open GoodReader

3) Go to the section entitled "Web Downloads" and click on "Enter URL"

4) Paste the address and accept.

Your map will be downloaded as a local PDF file on your iPad accessible via GodoReader.



From GoodReader support website:

How do I save a file from Safari to GoodReader?

If you browse the Web with Safari, and open a file that is interesting to you, there is a way of saving this file into GoodReader's internal local storage, so you will be able to view this file with GoodReader without loading it from the Internet every time (like it happens in Safari).
To save a file from Safari to GoodReader:

• open the file of interest in Safari
• tap Safari's address bar (the keyboard will appear)
• go to the very beginning of the file's URL address, where the http:// or https:// part is
• add a single letter g in front of the address, so you'll get ghttp:// or ghttps:// instead of http:// or https://
• press Go on the keyboard (this will close Safari and start GoodReader)
• the file will start to download into GoodReader automatically (check Web Downloads section to find it)

If you plan to do this often, you can simplify this process substantially. In GoodReader's settings, General section, tap the button called Put special address to clipboard. Then go to Safari and create a new bookmark. Bookmarking absolutely any page will do. Name this bookmark, for example, Save to GoodReader. Then press the bookmark button, and then Edit. Select this new bookmark. Now Safari will let you modify an address of this bookmark. Delete the old address and paste the text from the clipboard (GoodReader has prepared this special text for you). Save the modified bookmark address. Selecting this bookmark when a page of interest is opened is the same as adding the g letter in front of this page's address.
Please note that this technique doesn't always work with secure servers. If it doesn't, then try browsing for this file in GoodReader's built-in web-browser, rather than in Safari.