Hello All,
Tried to email to myself , worked with smaller stories could break into section if I must. Printed from the iPad, scaned into the PC, files got treated as photos not word files.
How do you get material out of an iPad? Must be some simple solution.
Yikes! what a Luddite
Why not just copy/paste the story text into an e-mail on your iPad, e-mail it to yourself, and then open the e-mail on your PC?
For a self-proclaimed Luddite, you chose what was quite possibly the most difficult option available to you (to say nothing of the fact that it didn't produce the desired results).
"Tried to email to myself , worked with smaller stories could break into section if I must"
Should work with all stories, which email provider are you using? And what method? copy pasting into the body of the text? or attatching the file?
.txt and .rtf files are the easiest to email.
otherwise join googlemail and google plus and use google drive to send to yourself
How did I miss that? I'm such a moron.
Google Drive has an iOS app, and you can easily link your Gmail account to an iPad as well. Good idea if for some reason the cut-and-paste-into-email doesn't work.
Dropbox is another alternative. Free on all platforms, including iOS.
I do most of my work via an iPad, as well. There is a free app called PlainText (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plaintext-dropbox-text-editing/id391254385?mt=8). It's a very bare bones text editor. No formatting or fancy fonts, just the iPad's built-in spell check. It can be synced to a Dropbox account, which makes getting the stuff you type off the iPad trivial. It's also supported by ads, but you can either work offline, which disables the ads, then go online to sync when done, or pony up a few bucks and buy the app's ad-disabler. They aren't obtrusive ads, but I think it's worth it.
Google drive is very nice option. I'm writing a lot on android and use google drive as editor or, sometimes, as proxy between my editor and rest of the world.
Also if you are going to publish on DA, you can select all the text copy and paste it directly, when publishing a story (works better than submitting a file)
Why not just copy/paste the story text into an e-mail on your iPad, e-mail it to yourself, and then open the e-mail on your PC?
For a self-proclaimed Luddite, you chose what was quite possibly the most complex option available to you (to say nothing of the fact that it didn't produce the desired results).
Stories I have written