Maps
for iPhone & iPad
Hate waiting for your topographical Map to render? We can fix that. Bring your Map into our App via drag and drop in iTunes, via Open With... from Mail, or from your DropBox account. Tap the "Pre-render" button, drink some Coffee or Tea. When the screen is green, tap the "Maps" button, and there you have lighting fast Map viewing.
Now introducing LargeViewer Helper for iOS PreRendering, which does the pre-rendering work on OS-X. Available thru the Mac OS-X App Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/largeviewer-helper-for-ios/id422195945?mt=12&ls=1
1.6.9 now supports PRINTING and MAKE PDF (click for feature set)
As a document handler just check for the "Open In..." command in your Apps, via tap and hold on a document icon and choose Maps.
Maps?
We do not supply maps, but the internet has lots of resources, the map used for our cover sheet comes from http://www.fs.fed.us/maps
Also see http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/index.html
http://www.peaklist.org/misc/links_to_map_resources.html
http://maps.grida.no/go/collection/topographic-maps
Dropbox Storage:
We are licensed to use the Dropbox developer api. We only read data from Dropbox, we never send data to Dropbox, delete files or touch your Dropbox directory structure. When you use the DropBox screen we present a file/folder view of your Dropbox directory, Dropbox gives us the file thumbnails. Tap to navigate the folder hierarchy, or tap to download a file. We show the file download progress as Dropbox gives us the contents of the file, once downloaded the file size will turn to blue to indicate we have a copy of the file on the iOS device for immediate access, or offline use.
After downloading a file, we take you to the Hippo View screen where you can either choose to open the file with "Preview", other document handlers that might support the file, or open in "Maps". If Maps can open the file, the screen background will be green, white as it processes the file, yellow if we might be able to open the file, or red if there was a problem which might be repairable.
Pre-Render
If that button shows, tap it to pre-render a PDF file. We automatically pre-render single page PDF files so you see us work on those auto-matically, no need to tap the button.
Once pre-rendered we don't show the button. Enjoy the fast viewing.
Local Storage:
You can copy documents into Maps by using iTunes to copy files into, delete, or out of the app. You can also if given the choice ask Maps to open various image documents from other Apps. Like email for example. Maps does not need to be running if you want to ask it to open documents from other apps.
The Hippo View.
Once you are at the Hippo View screen you can choose to either use the iOS Preview App to look at the file, use some other application to open the document via the far right toolbar button, or open the file in Maps via the leftmost toolbar button. Once you start viewing the document we hide the status and navigation bar, tap or tap & hold.
About * Support * Email
From this screen you can read this help text, but you can also tap 'App Review!' to give us a great review in the App Store, or tap 'Email support' to directly send our tech team email with diagnostics if supported by your iOS device. We do not send any information from the contents of your files but in the email attachment do send information that includes the names of the files, sizes and dates. If you wish not to send that information just delete the file attachment from the email message when you complete the written body of the email message.
Repair
Oops stuff happens. We try hard to catch issues and on this screen you can tap to select problem documents to take repair actions. This might mean doing the pre-rendering processing again if it did not complete. Sometimes we think the file is unreadable because of file transfer issues and might ask you to copy it onto the device again. Otherwise we ran out of free space? Always ensure you have enough free space on the device when you want to process large numbers of documents.
Processing is slow?
Terminating other running apps helps a bit, if you have a need to process lots of large page files please email us and we can talk further about other options we are pursuing to make the pre-rendering process faster. An iOS device isn't a desktop computer. Still we have some thoughts on this.
Crashes?
Yes email us. This can happen if the document page size is too big, we run out of space, or we've a bug. You may need to send us the problem document so our engineers can review it.
The App is copyright 2010,2011 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. We are makers of LargeViewer, Can Opener, Fax Reader, WorldPulse, WikiServer, Parcours.robo and various fractions calculators and do custom iPhone/iPad work.
Warranty information:
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Privacy information:
http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/guide_e.pdf
