PDF Briefing

[Werner Gass-Müller]

Hi,
would it be possible, to make the flight briefing downloadable as a PDF file?
As I am using an IPad for a paperless cockpit, I could use "Good Reader" for the Briefing as well.

Thank you!

 

[Ricardo Rementería Troncoso]

would it be possible, to make the flight briefing downloadable as a PDF file?

You can make a PDF file from a screenshot (PNG or another format).
See the next examples.

A screenshot from Flight Plan (briefing) of Air Child:
[imgpop]http://www.remen.nl/ACH/PDFexamples/Example1.png[/imgpop]
I open Example1.png with "Preview" (OS X Mavericks 10.9) and export it as PDF (with Windows or Linux must also be possible).

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You can do the same with the Flight Plan for VATSIM generated by Air Child.
The screenshot:
[imgpop]http://www.remen.nl/ACH/PDFexamples/Example2.png[/imgpop]
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[Peter Schindler]

Thanks Ricardo! On most systems it's even easier with the "print page" option of the briefing. You can either print to Microsoft's XPS format (Windows 7/8) or print the page to PDF using any free tools (mostly based on Ghostscript; google for 'Free PDF Printer') or Adobe's Acrobat (costly, if you don't have it).

For iOS there's a couple Print to PDF apps available in the AppStore but since they all have to be paid I didn't try any of these. Look carefully because some apps are just disguised AirPrint interfaces.

Anyway, we are considering PDF creation in a future update of the briefing, probably first half of 2014.

 

[Werner Gass-Müller]

Hello Ricardo,
Thank you very much, you directed me to the right solution - wonderful

As Peter mentioned, the free pdf printers do a good job, but if you are thinking of implementing this into the webpage in 2014 would be great. Makes ist a little faster