I do one page at a time from iPad – it’s not too bad
Pinch-zoom out on preview.
Then print to a PDF app. Advantage of that is you can then print A5
Ps JeppMFD will be discontinued this year
From some other input it does seem that you cannot print e.g. a PDF containing all the approach plates for a given airport. Not if they are Jepp, anyway.
You can print one page at a time, via various methods, the most obvious being a screenshot.
You can make HQ PDFs when choosing «Print». Just «zoom» the preview (with two fingers) and choose «Save to files».
(In Foreflight on Apple).
Some years later, is there any update on this, other than making screenshots?
I don’t have a Mac.
The above issue by @Piotr_Szut can be solved under android with some automation apps.
Piotr_Szut wrote:
Now I’m looking for a way to print the Jeppesen IAC with the android app. I’m new to android and I don’t even know wether it can print.
So you are using Jeppesen Mobile TC? The Android can print, but this app can’t. So you have to resort to making screenshots and printing them.
Now I’m looking for a way to print the Jeppesen IAC with the android app. I’m new to android and I don’t even know wether it can print.
I was successful with the iPad using handyprint for mac
I have to print the pages one by one to as many PDF files into one directory, then I run a script to merge the pages into one single PDF . I used a script I found on the internet and made some changes.
use scripting additions
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "Quartz" -- required for PDF stuff
set Dossier to (choose folder with prompt "Choose the Folder")
tell application "Finder"
set inFiles to ((every file of folder Dossier whose name extension is "pdf") as alias list)
(* set inFiles to (choose file of type {"pdf"} with prompt "Choose your PDF files:" with multiple selections allowed) *)
set theAlias to first item of inFiles
set parentFolder to container of (container of theAlias)
set parentFolderAlias to parentFolder as alias
set Nom to name of Dossier
end tell
set parentFolderPath to (POSIX path of parentFolderAlias) & Nom & ".pdf"
set destPosixPath to POSIX path of parentFolderPath
(* set destPosixPath to POSIX path of (choose file name default name "Combined.pdf" with prompt "Save new PDF to:")*)
its combineFiles:inFiles savingTo:destPosixPath
on combineFiles:inFiles savingTo:destPosixPath
-- make URL of the first PDF
set inNSURL to current application's class "NSURL"'s fileURLWithPath:(POSIX path of item 1 of inFiles)
-- make PDF document from the URL
set theDoc to current application's PDFDocument's alloc()'s initWithURL:inNSURL
-- loop through the rest
set oldDocCount to theDoc's pageCount()
set inFiles to rest of inFiles
repeat with aFile in inFiles
-- make URL of the next PDF
set inNSURL to (current application's class "NSURL"'s fileURLWithPath:(POSIX path of aFile))
-- make PDF document from the URL
set newDoc to (current application's PDFDocument's alloc()'s initWithURL:inNSURL)
-- loop through, moving pages
set newDocCount to newDoc's pageCount()
repeat with i from 1 to newDocCount
-- get page of old PDF
set thePDFPage to (newDoc's pageAtIndex:(i - 1)) -- zero-based indexes
-- insert the page
(theDoc's insertPage:thePDFPage atIndex:oldDocCount)
set oldDocCount to oldDocCount + 1
end repeat
end repeat
set outNSURL to current application's class "NSURL"'s fileURLWithPath:destPosixPath
-- save the new PDF
(theDoc's writeToURL:outNSURL)
end combineFiles:savingTo:
Screenshot is the easiest!
One crude way is to screenshot to Camera Roll and then batch print the photos. It should be adequate if the screen resolution is high enough. There are then various routes e.g.
Obviously the above is a huge pain for anything more than a few charts.
However, do a search here for Airprint etc. This has come up before. I believe there are now virtual Airprint printers for a PC and they can generate any output. In the past, Apple kicked out of their app shop Airprint apps which generated a PDF on the Ipad; no idea if they still do that. I spent a lot of time on this a while ago and gave up; most of the apps I tried simply didn’t work, or the quality was poor.
Jepp are trying to move everybody away from Jeppview and over to the Ipad apps and making printing difficult on that is what they want, because it reduces bootlegging of their terminal charts, which is normally done by printing to PDFs which are then easily shared.
I believe what most people do is invoke the screenshot feature of their iPad and then use another app to print that screenshot. With the high DPI devices, the quality is rather good.
