Does in fact send to other apps
I am writing this to respond to another reviewer who is unhappy that this app does not allow one to open the downloaded files in other apps. I am writing this in August of 2009, and it does - it easily “sends” the file to my favorite pdf reader. I wanted to clarify this.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Needs to support the new Files app.
This app does what it says it does: it syncs your DriveThruRPG library. And that's really about it. It doesn't provide a way to open the downloaded files in your choice of PDF reader, it doesn't provide a way to use any of the modern tools for file management that debuted in iOS 11. It uses the built in minimal PDF viewer tools, providing a poor user experience and not allowing any kind of bookmarking, annotations, or other rich interaction available in a dedicated PDF viewing application.
As such, users are still better served by downloading their documents directly from the site. I have a specific PDF reader that I read all my PDFs in, which supports bookmarks, annotations, editing, etc., and integrates with my iCloud Drive so I can store files in one place and read them on my iPad and my Mac. The DriveThruRPG app doesn't support any of this.
This is a 5 star app if judged solely by what the app sets out to do, but a 1 star app if judged by how I want to use it. The files we get from DriveThruRPG are already DRM-free; please let us do reasonable, modern things with them in your app!
As such, users are still better served by downloading their documents directly from the site. I have a specific PDF reader that I read all my PDFs in, which supports bookmarks, annotations, editing, etc., and integrates with my iCloud Drive so I can store files in one place and read them on my iPad and my Mac. The DriveThruRPG app doesn't support any of this.
This is a 5 star app if judged solely by what the app sets out to do, but a 1 star app if judged by how I want to use it. The files we get from DriveThruRPG are already DRM-free; please let us do reasonable, modern things with them in your app!
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Greatly appreciated. Future wishes...
I've only tried this on iPad so far but will check on Android in the future. It's simple but mostly functional. Note that you can choose to hide some of the columns (like publisher and system) as well as resize the column widths to make the individual filenames more readable.
As noted by other reviews, this app currently has no means for extracting/viewing contents of zips. Many products only come packaged this way, so I'd say in terms of priority next release features this should be the top priority.
Thanks!
As noted by other reviews, this app currently has no means for extracting/viewing contents of zips. Many products only come packaged this way, so I'd say in terms of priority next release features this should be the top priority.
Thanks!
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Nice app
Thanks for this app. It was really needed. However, it seems that it can not happen zip files.
Perfect for iPad.
Great app works exactly like you want to allowed me to open some PDFs that I had purchased that wouldn’t open from dropbox or Google Drive which confused me but those PDFs worked perfectly with this app it’s a lifesaver great work thank you.
