Tip for downloading PDF files from safari on iPad

So one of the limitations with the current version of safari on iPad is that you cannot automatically download pdf files, like you can on a computer. However, if you have the goodreader app installed, here's a tip.

While in safari on the iPad, and viewing a pdf file, you can simply type a "g" in front of the web address (so it would look something like this, ghttp://www.web.com/my info.pdf). When you hit the Go button, safari will switch over to goodreader and it will automatically start a download of the PDF.

Pretty slick. Works well for general PDFs on the web, but I noticed it didn't work for our PDFs on final site, because the url for them is encoded.

- John

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