Turn a PDF into an App? Can it be done?

I have a few PDF files that I use constantly for reference on the job. I can open them in a reader app like GoodReader, but I do have to drill down to the specific documents each time I need to open one.
How great it would be to have each of the documents as an app, with its own icon on a launcher screen!
Does anyone know of any way to turn a PDF (or any other) document into its own app that can go onto the screen?

The only way that I can think of is to place them on a web server somewhere. navigate to them in safari and tell safari, to save the shortcut to that webpage on the home screen. then when you click on the shortcut, safari opens to that "page" which is really the pdf being served as a web page.
a Developer can make a simple app to display one pdf as the home pdf, but you couldn't install more than one version of the app at a time, so you could only have one pdf ready at a time. Kinda useless.
Jason

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Hi - Following on from a recent post about how to strip our special characters from a string before insertion to the db I have found this Java code - my question is, how can I turn this into something I can use with CF? I think I need to use the cfscipt tag but that's right on the boundaries of my knowledge base.. If anyone could please help I'd be ever so grateful - thank you!
package net.htmlescape;
* HtmlEscape in Java, which is compatible with utf-8
* @author Ulrich Jensen, http://www.htmlescape.net
* Feel free to get inspired, use or steal this code and use it in your
* own projects.
* License:
* You have the right to use this code in your own project or publish it
* on your own website.
* If you are going to use this code, please include the author lines.
* Use this code at your own risk. The author does not warrent or assume any
* legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefullness of
* this program code.
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private static char[] hex={'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','a','b','c','d','e','f'};
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 * @param original The String to escape
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 return escapeSpecial(escapeBr(escapeTags(original)));
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 boolean found=true;
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public static String escapeBr(String original)
 if(original==null) return "";
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 boolean found=true;
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 case 203:out.append("Ë"); break; //Ë
 case 205:out.append("Í"); break; //Í
 case 206:out.append("Î"); break; //Î
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* @author Ulrich Jensen, http://www.htmlescape.net
* Feel free to get inspired, use or steal this code and use it in your
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* License:
* You have the right to use this code in your own project or publish it
* on your own website.
* If you are going to use this code, please include the author lines.
* Use this code at your own risk. The author does not warrent or assume any
* legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefullness of
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private static char[] hex={'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','a','b','c','d','e','f'};
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 return escapeSpecial(escapeTags(original));
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 return escapeSpecial(escapeBr(escapeTags(original)));
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 if(original==null) return "";
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 char[] chars=original.toCharArray();
 for(int i=0;i<chars.length;i++)
 boolean found=true;
 switch(chars[i])
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 case 62:out.append(">"); break; //>
 case 34:out.append("""); break; //"
 default:found=false;break;
 if(!found) out.append(chars[i]);
 return out.toString();
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 if(original==null) return "";
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<cfset cleanedtext = cleantext(dirtytext)>
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:20:59 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Can a PDF be an app?
    Re: Can a PDF be an app?
    created by Joel_Geraci in Security & Digital Signatures - View the full discussion
klm: 1) The Adobe Reader on mobile devices currently doesn't support form filling or JavaScript so while you can store and view PDF files on a number of phones, you can't easily fill out the forms using the Adobe products. There ar ethird party tools that allow you to add comments but I haven't seen anything that will turn the PDF into an APP. 2) Yes - I use DropBox and it works great. 3) You might check out AcrobatUsers.com instead 4) Since forms don't work on the mobile versions, signatures don't either. J-
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