Hi Juliet & Bill, not a long Christmas break, Ronni ;o) Ronni's method is, as usual, effective and well explained. As with many things, there are probably several other ways to do it - the best (for you) may depend on how you like to work and, among other things, how many recipes you have.
For example, I am a great peruser of online recipes and have well over a hundred recipes sitting in my recipes folder on the computer - I had to start organising them into sub-folders (chicken, beef, seafood etc) to cut down the time to find what I wanted. If I put all these into my "Books" then it would get very crowded on my iBooks PDF bookshelf - making anything else hard to find (I already have this problem with my PDF bookshelf being overwhelmed with iTunes U course transcripts (which all have very similar thumbnails) - but that's another story. The synching could also take some managing if you often add recipes - you either have to go into itunes and mark the checkboxes for new recipes, then re-synch - or check the "all books" - which may not suit if you have a lot of other books/items you don't want/need on the iPad. Another approach you could consider is using Dropbox. Dropbox has been discussed a lot on the WAMUG list and lots of us find it very useful for MANY things - so I won't go into long explanations on how it works. For your purposes you would just need to install Dropbox on your iMac and the Dropbox app on your iPad and put you folder(s) of recipes in the Dropbox folder on your iMac - then you would see all your recipes in Dropbox on your iPad. Dropbox is free (both the OSX app and the iPad app) with 2GB of storage (2.5GB if you sign up via a referral link). If you want to try Dropbox, my referral link is <http://db.tt/TXCKqN4p> which will get you an extra 500MB - AND give me an extra 500MB ;o)) Just another way to do things - and Dropbox is free and has heaps of other uses - so you can always just try it out. One thing to note is that the iOS Dropbox app works slightly differently due to the limited memory of iOS devices - it does not download every document to the iPad/iPhone but retrieves them one at a time as you select them - so you have to be connected to the network at the time. However, if you want to keep a recipe (or recipes) stored on the iPad, for use when you are elsewhere (not connected) you just mark them as "favourites" and Dropbox will keep them on the device. HTH Neil SEPARATE BUT RELATED TIP/HINT One other thing I have done is add my "Recipes" folder as a destination under the Print to PDF dialogue box - I covered this in a post to the list back in 2010 <http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/msg58477.html> but a couple of the links have changed since then - so here's an updated version: ***************************************** Hi all, I recently found this tip hidden away in the Dropbox Wiki: <http://www.dropboxwiki.com/TipsAndTricks/PrintToPDF> > In Mac OS X, you can set your Dropbox folder as an option in the Print/PDF > menu. This is useful if you want to save articles/web pages to your Dropbox > which you can then go on to view from other computers as a PDF document. > The article goes on to take you through the very simple steps involved to do this. However, what I think is really nice about this tip is that it is not limited just to Dropbox you can use it for any folder: I find ³print to pdf² is one of my all-time favourite features of OSX. Up to finding this tip I nearly always tended to use just two of the items in the drop-down menu: * Save as PDF... * Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder I really like the one-click convenience of the ³Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder² action, but I want to limit this folder to actual online receipts, payment advices etc. so for everything else I used the ³Save as PDF...² action this has the advantage of letting me change the pdf name and select the destination on an item by item basis which is great for items I want to organise and file away but it does add extra steps and time to the operation. For myself, I found there were two categories of articles/web pages that I repeatedly saved as pdfs: * Webpages of interest for later reading * Recipes from, for example, <http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/cuisine> or <http://gourmettraveller.com.au/Recipe-Home-page.htm> The ³Web Receipts² folder is located, by default, in the users ³Documents² folder so I created a new ³Web to Read² folder (also in my documents folder) and I already had a ³Recipes² folder where I was filing the recipes I downloaded I followed the steps in the article (for these folders rather than the dropbox folder) and now have the following additional items in the PDF dropdown menu in the print dialogue box: * Save PDF to Web to Read Folder * Save PDF to Recipes Folder It¹s probably obvious but following the steps in the article would just have added the items as ³Web to Read² and ³Recipes² in the drop down menu but, being somewhat pedantic about these matters, I renamed the aliases as ³Save PDF to Web to Read Folder² and ³Save PDF to Recipes Folder² for consistency with the existing ³Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder² item. I still use the ³Save as PDF...² action for other items but I now find the two new one-click options really convenient and time-saving. It¹s little feature like this that I really love about OSX!! Cheers ***************************************** If you wanted to do this, it would be best to relocate your recipes folder to Dropbox prior to setting up its alias in your "PDF Services" folder. I the should say that I am still using Snow Leopard - so I don't know if the above method works the same in Lion/Mountain Lion. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 31/12/12 9:02 AM, Ronni Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > Hi Juliet & Bill, > > The easiest way is to put the Recipes on Juliet's iPad in iBooks. > Are the Recipes already in PDF format, if not create PDFs by File > Print > > Save As PDF. > > You should already have iBooks App on your iPad, if not you can download it > Free from iTunes on Juliet's iPad > <https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8> > > I'll give you instructions how to Add Books & PDFs to your iPad. > > Add Books & PDFs to iTunes: > > 1. Add the file (or files) to your iTunes library on your computer using one > of the following methods: > In iTunes, choose File > Add to Library and open the file. > Drag the file from the Finder (Mac) & drop it under Library > > The Book / PDF appears in the "Books" category in iTunes, and it can be > copied to the iPad the next time you sync. > > 2. Connect the iPad to iTunes on the iMac and with your iPad selected in the > iTunes sidebar, click the Books tab. > Make sure Sync Books is enabled at the top of the tab, and then in the Books > pane below, mark the checkboxes for items you want to transfer. > > After syncing, when you open the iBooks app, the boos/PDFs appear in your > library. > If it is a PDF, tap the PDF button at the top of the iBooks screen to view it. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 27/12/2012, at 11:41 AM, Juliet Kitson <billand...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> G'day all >> I have an Imac with snow leopard,Ipad 2, airport extreme, time capsule and >> an airport express. >> What I would like to do is place the Ipad in the kitchen and the Imac in >> the office and then when my wife wants read a recipe she can network or >> somehow look at her recipes. Is this possible I have spoken to the apple >> shop over here and they don't seem to have a simple solution, if not I >> guess we will continue to email the recipe to ourselves. >> >> In anticipation Bill & juliet > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
