Has anyone purchased and used the GMs Guide on an iPad yet?

Though I have the Core Set I'm really tempted to maybe get the PDFs for quick reference. Are they unbearably slow loading? Searchable?

Updated versions of the pdf's have better internal links than when the first came out, which is good.

However, on computer I have found the core pdf's very slow by "electronic document" standards (e.g., searching "athel" on my laptop just now with latest version of adobe acrobat, finding every instance in the rulebook took 75 seconds). The "layering" in the pdf's means pages are a bit slow coming up.

I don't know about Ipad speeds.

Thanks valvorik, that tells me enough. I appreciate the response.

For those heavily-layered PDFs, if you have a Mac or have a friend with a Mac, print the PDF to PDF (Macs can do this natively). Open the PDF, go to Print, and choose Save to PDF. This will flatten all the layers to one, greatly reducing the size and load time.

Tried with a few PDF readers (including native and GoodReader, among others) on my iPad and it does not work. The larger PDFs won't even load, while the smaller ones load, but due to some problem in the PDF engines, the foot of the pages will not render and it actually cuts the text from the last paragraph in each page, making it unreadable. Some images also don't render.

tirelli said:

Bummer tirelli, but thanks for letting me know. When you say the smaller ones don't work that well either do you mean the adventures for purchase or even the smaller ffg PDFs available for free on the support page? Just curious because so far I've been able to use the support downloads pretty well with Goodreader.

Also, as an aside tirelli, have you figured out a good way to use the Pad here on the ffg forums for posting or do you even bother? I'm having to type up my posts in a text app, copy, then paste into the ffg text box.

PDF's work great on my Windows 7 tablets ...just sayin'

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GravitysAngel said:

Thanks, that certainly made the pdfs faster to view (not smaller in size though).

donbaloo said:

I have the TGS and the Tome of Adventure PDFs on my iPad, and they both work fine. Sometimes the chapter heading text gets a bit wonky, but if you just reload the page it works fine. I also agree that if you take the PDF and print to PDF, you'll probably have better luck, although I never bothered to try that myself.

And no, you can't post from an iPad to these forums. So tiresome!

I post from my iPad and iPhone, but it's tedious. I have to use the "Copy" button at the top of the post box, switch to Notepad, type in my text, it, copy it, paste it into the page that opens, and save it, hoping it hasn't timed out yet.

Try typing your response in notepad first, copy it, then go to the forums and hit respond. I then hit the left justify icon which for some reason allows me to the text box for pasting. Then paste.

Still tedious but you don't ever have to worry about timeouts.

I use iAnnotate PDF on my iPad for all my manuals including WFRP. It's not extremly fast but after paging through it, it refreshes in about 5 seconds.

The is one annoying issue about iAnnotate PDF: it is not capable to rename any pdf filenames. You might end up with filenames like: Qw45gy.pdf

So I use a combination of Goodreader and iAnnotate PDF to name my pdf's and browse them on my iPad.