chflyer wrote:
If you have a Mac, there are a lot of native options and possibilities for sharing between an ipad or iphone and the Mac. Otherwise, the Printopia app works well including printing to pdf on the Mac.
Another vote here for Printopia. None of the other solutions worked for me. I use a ForeFlight binder as well, which can be slow to create and populate (I have an old iPad), but sending the PDF’s to the Mac (via Printopia) is quick and the resultant PDF’s have always had the fonts embedded and print properly.
I have had much more trouble printing directly from ForeFlight onto A5 double-sided. Maybe it works better now, but I gave up trying awhile ago.
lionel wrote:
And there was much rejoicing.
I wouldnt get too excited. Someone at Jepp told me at least 5 years ago that they would soon be launching a Mac version of Jeppview…
Buckerfan wrote:
2) sometime this year or next the whole Jeppview nonsense will be replaced by an online downloading capability.
And there was much rejoicing.
Had a productive conversation with Jepp support guy this am. He solved the problem of my terminal charts not downloading properly. In fact they had downloaded, but got sent to the wring directory.
Like Peter, I really like my Jepp paper charts, printed in ‘kneeboard’ style, ie two per page. So the various workarounds would cause me all sorts of grief getting them to print right. BTW he told me 1) I wouldnt be able to use Elink, but that 2) sometime this year or next the whole Jeppview nonsense will be replaced by an online downloading capability.
Or… You could fly with your 2 ipads, the way steve jobs intended you to.
Alternatively your iphone, ipad and old ppl glasses.
:-D
Can you clarify this opinion?
It is the process above which used to be quite impossible – basically because there was no way to print 1 page from JeppFD, automatically sequence to the next page, print that, and so on for the whole airport.
Of course you can do it manually, but it takes ages. What a lot of people were doing is what was described in that old thread I linked i.e. screenshot of each page to Camera Roll and then print the camera roll.
Better ways were to print (again, 1 page at a time, manually) to a PDF and then use a 3rd party app to combine the PDFs and print them, A5, 2-up, whatever.
But there was never AFAIK a way to just print the whole of an airport in one go.
But as I said, maybe there is now a way.
In ForeFlight, one can create an airport “pack” and then print it.
That sounds like FF has solved this. And they can; a licensee of Jepp data gets the database, plus some source code (or maybe just a DLL or some such) for rendering the data, so they can implement what they like.
Buckerfan wrote:
What is Elink. Does this mean I could access my Jeppview services from my Mac and print from there? That would be great.
Just contact Jepp and explain your issue re. printing and that elink would solve it.
@peter
I don’t think elink has anything to do with airlines.
Dimme wrote:
Peter wrote:The IOS based devices cannot print (usefully)
Can you clarify this opinion? I also print Jepp charts from ForeFlight occasionally, although with time I feel it less and less necessary but that’s another discussion.
In ForeFlight, one can create an airport “pack” and then print it. Although ForeFlight could improve it slightly, I find it eminently useable.
1) Create a binder for the airport under Charts
2) Click on the “+ add plate” square while within the binder. This pops up a search field for typing in the airport code, as well as a list of previously selected airports. This returns a list of all charts for the airport, with a + button after each. If all the charts are desired, then they do need to be clicked on the + one at a time….. but it goes fast because they are just “added to the binder” and one doesn’t need to wait …. just go down the list quickly clicking on the desired charts.
3) Click the print icon at the top to print all the charts in the binder.
If you have a Mac, there are a lot of native options and possibilities for sharing between an ipad or iphone and the Mac. Otherwise, the Printopia app works well including printing to pdf on the Mac.
BTW, the charts in a binder are also updated whenever there is a chart change. So if you fly somewhere often you can create a binder with all the charts and it is always up to date as long as downloads are current. It can be reprinted for every trip to ensure the most recent version.
Congrats @Peter if you have a printer that prints A5 double-sided. That seems to be quite rare.
That’s a Foreflight issue, not an iOS issue. If a document has multiple pages you can print them in sequence, double-sided, etc etc.
But hey, it’s possible 
Yeah; that prints one page. Gosh even I knew that 
How do you get JeppFD to sequence through all the charts for an airport and print them out in sequence, A5, two per page. Or generate a single PDF, 2 charts per page. Without sitting there and doing each page manually.
Historically this was doable on a jailbroken Ipad, but the really great “remote control” apps were available only under Android.
Maybe Apple have relaxed things since that old thread I linked above? I spent many hours with various “PDF generating/printing” apps on an Ipad.
For windoze, programs which fake a printer and combine pages like that have been around since for ever. But nothing (built into windows) will “drive” the primary executable to display the next page so it can be printed.
