RAVE on mobile phone.

I've figured how to view RAVE on my phone.

RAVE-1 is typically installed into C:\Program Files (x86)\RAVE-1\ on a 64bit Windows machine.

Files for the Range Rover P38 are in the lp pdf folder : C:\Program Files (x86)\RAVE-1\pdf\lp

hl03143e.pdf is the last handbook available.
wmlp99e.pdf is the main workshop manual.
etlp950e.pdf is the electrical troubleshooting (1995)
etlp960e.pdf is the electrical troubleshooting (1996)
etlp970e.pdf is the electrical troubleshooting (1997 - 1998)
etlp010e.pdf is the electrical troubleshooting (1999 onwards)

The PDF files won't open in Adobe Acrobat XI at all. It thinks some sort of add in is required. If you open with Adobe 4 (should be in the RAVE-1 folder somewhere) then the files ask for a password on opening. So, clearly in the RAVE Tdata.exe executable there's a password embedded somewhere. Couldn't see anything in the .ini files.

In order to read the files on my mobile I've opened RAVE and navigated to the section of interest. I then printed each chapter to a file instead of to the printer. Unfortunately the only drivers I had loaded on my computer that could do this were XPS. I guess it is possible to print straight to PDF or other formats if you have the drivers installed. I've never used Microsoft OneNote but it looks like it might work.

In order to read XPS files on my Android device I needed to install a free piece of software called MuPDF (see MuPDF and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.artifex.mupdfdemo&hl=en). It isn't the fanciest of readers but it is fast and free. Unfortunately it occasionally crashes on me and it doesn't seem to support text searches but at least I can read the files.

The files should be viewable here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By7n3F7TXDU8V2tQRFNBZFZyTHc&usp=sharing

There's a file for each chapter. It is quite big so you might not want all of them!

It isn't perfect. Links don't work and it is a bit clunky. Maybe someone a bit more IT savvy could show us how it should be done? In the meantime it might just get you out of a hole.

Hope this helps.

Try pdf editor thats what I bypass restrictions on linux with

Strangely enough, the MuPDF also works on Linux (and iOS which I think is Apple's ripped off Linux?) so might work on the Nanocom as well. Not sure if any of the Blackbox chaps come on here but I'm pretty sure they could build it in, maybe on an SD card.

I've put the actual PDF files here: http://p38rr.com/files/RAVE/. They should work in any application that can read PDFs, no specific version required. They have index with them so you can navigate by section.

For iPhone/iPad it's fairly simple. Make sure you have the Apple iBooks application installed. Open that link in Safari then click on the file you want to download. Wait until it's fully opened in Safari and you should see a button at the top that says "Open in iBooks". Click that and after a while the PDF should be saved to iBooks. From there you can search, view the index etc.

For Android I would probably install the Adobe Reader application. Then you can either download the files to your computer and copy them to the phone/SD card and view them inside the application or you can probably download them directly.

I'll add other RAVE files to that site for people to download if you let me know which ones you want.

jacckk said:

I've put the actual PDF files here: Index of /files/RAVE. They should work in any application that can read PDFs, no specific version required. They have index with them so you can navigate by section.

For iPhone/iPad it's fairly simple. Make sure you have the Apple iBooks application installed. Open that link in Safari then click on the file you want to download. Wait until it's fully opened in Safari and you should see a button at the top that says "Open in iBooks". Click that and after a while the PDF should be saved to iBooks. From there you can search, view the index etc.

For Android I would probably install the Adobe Reader application. Then you can either download the files to your computer and copy them to the phone/SD card and view them inside the application or you can probably download them directly.

I'll add other RAVE files to that site for people to download if you let me know which ones you want.

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Thanks for the files, running a Macbook and and an iPad, using PDFs is so much easier:clap2:

Thanks, Jack.

Strangely enough I've just discovered I have a another copy of RAVE and none of the PDFs have protection on them! They just open. Think it is an older copy though.