Papers Support Forum

sounds great!

does this update fix the web of science problems??
http://mekentosj.com/papers/forum15/vie … hp?id=2586

thanks!

Any luck in getting Apple's seal of approval?

The update didn't solve the Google Scholar bug for me. It still doesn't find any results.. Am I the only one having still trouble with this?

Sorry everybody, we just received the follow reaction from Apple:

Dear Alexander,

Papers cannot be posted to the App Store because it is transferring excessive volumes of data over the cellular network, which as outlined in the iPhone SDK Agreement section 3.3.15, is prohibited:

" If an Application requires or will have access to the cellular network, then additionally such Application:

-  Must comply with Apple's best practices and other guidelines on how Applications should
access and use the cellular network;

-  Must not in Apple's reasonable judgment excessively use or unduly burden network
capacity or bandwidth;"

This was apparently something that they had troubles with in the 1.0, but now they do. There's no other option than to only allow downloading of PDF files if you're connected to a WiFi network.

Many thanks for your patience everybody.

talazem wrote:

Secondly, many, many other apps allow you to download pdf's and other large files, or even stream media, which takes up more bandwidth.

Prior to jailbreaking my iPhone, I used YouTube to watch every possible vid I could on YouTube to make sure I used up my 1GB of provided data. Now PDAnet helps with that…

@Anders  Papers for iPhone 1.1 has been on the way for a long time already, but unfortunately Apple didn't approve it yet. Hopefully soon. (@talazem, we have certainly tried to argue the points you raise with Apple but they simply won't respond).

Papers 1.1 will allow download of PDFs through WiFi AND download of PDFs smaller than 3Mb over the cellular network, which should cover most research articles out there.

BTW, we managed to negotiate the PDF download cap on cellular networks from 3 to 5Mb...

Hi.
Downloaded the iphone 1.1. I have several PDFs which are non-standard size (larger than A4). They do not seem to be rendering properly in the new iphone pages. In portrait mode the left and bottom are cut out and in landscape mode I cannot see the bottom 25% in each page. No matter how much I try these parts remain hidden.
I uploaded the PDF in AirSharing app and the regular iphone PDF renders it perfectly.

The PDF looks perfect on pages on the mac. What is the problem here.

Last edited by mechatak (2009-04-06 01:47:45)

Well, JSTOR is still dead for me.  My institution requires a login prior to running the ezproxy webpage.  Indeed, even when I run the Papers bookmarklet from Mobile Safari, when Papers launches I'm sent to a login on my institution's website, but the page chokes the program when I try and enter my login details.  While I could remedy this in version 1.0, in 1.1 Papers dies and I need to quit the program.

What we need is a built-in browser, as with the desktop version.

Still, in every other respect, a fantastic update.

Last edited by hermeneut (2009-04-06 11:14:16)

Anders wrote:

I don't really mind that because I am using an iPod Touch, so Wifi only. However, I must say that it sounds like an enormous reversal in Apple's policy. Youtube might be exempt because of the tight ties with the iPhone itself, but there are many, many apps that allow download of huge amounts of data, including several other PDF viewers, and other video apps like Joost. It all seems pretty ridiculous to me.

You can't use Joost on the cellular network either.  You have to use wifi for those apps as well, so in a sense, it's not a huge reversal on Apple's policy.  I don't think it's really Apple who's to blame, as it is the cellular companies.  Overall, I think it sucks (I'm already paying so much for the data plan!), though I'm happy that the limit was raised to 5mb.  Good negotiations!

I noticed that PDFs of papers render almost instantaneously on iPhone 3G S, which makes reading much more pleasurable. However, a bug kills the joy - Papers freezes every time PDF view switches from portrait to landscape. Is this a common problem?