PDF Reviews on iPad?
I was hoping the Appleinsider community could step up to the plate for this question. So far no one on the internet has touched this subject.
Can you use any of the features of the PDF review process (view or make comments) on an iPad. What happens when you send a shared email review? can it be viewed? do the comments show up? Anyway i'll be getting an iPad next week, and if i don't hear from you i'll post what i find out then. Has anyone had ANY experiences with this subject. Thanks, your consideration is very much appreciated.
Peace & Sweetness
-G
Can you use any of the features of the PDF review process (view or make comments) on an iPad. What happens when you send a shared email review? can it be viewed? do the comments show up? Anyway i'll be getting an iPad next week, and if i don't hear from you i'll post what i find out then. Has anyone had ANY experiences with this subject. Thanks, your consideration is very much appreciated.
Peace & Sweetness
-G
Comments
I ask because my Touch can display PDFs that I access using the iDisk app. If I have a PDF I want to read on my Touch I upload the PDF onto my Mobile.me iDisk. On my Touch I use the free iDisk app to access the PDF. When I tap on the PDF file the file is downloaded onto my Touch and the Touch displays the PDF. Are you saying that the iPad can't do what the Touch can?
Dr., are you saying that the iPad will not display PDFs?
I ask because my Touch can display PDFs that I access using the iDisk app. If I have a PDF I want to read on my Touch I upload the PDF onto my Mobile.me iDisk. On my Touch I use the free iDisk app to access the PDF. When I tap on the PDF file the file is downloaded onto my Touch and the Touch displays the PDF. Are you saying that the iPad can't do what the Touch can?
Good question. Apple hasn't released a version of the iDisk app for iPad, but presumably the one for iPhone/touch will work, though I have not tried it yet. The iPhoneOS has the built-in capability to read a number of file formats, including PDF, which allows these formats to be read by apps that use the service (including Mail and Safari). What Apple has not done (yet?) is release a freestanding document reader, which is why a lot of us are buying GoodReader. I will have to give the iDisk app a try. Maybe I could have saved myself a buck.
Either way, I don't think you'll get any PDF markup capabilities though perhaps you can see documents with included markups. Haven't tried that yet either, but it's on the list.
Dr., are you saying that the iPad will not display PDFs?
I ask because my Touch can display PDFs that I access using the iDisk app. If I have a PDF I want to read on my Touch I upload the PDF onto my Mobile.me iDisk. On my Touch I use the free iDisk app to access the PDF. When I tap on the PDF file the file is downloaded onto my Touch and the Touch displays the PDF. Are you saying that the iPad can't do what the Touch can?
No, the iPad CAN display pdf's that way.
But that's ALL it can do... display them.
There are a couple Apps as well that do a better job of filing and displaying pdf's. But what the original poster was looking for was a FULLY functional pdf app... one that lets you edit/markup pdf's and then save them with those markups. I don't know of any apps that will allow that (though there may be.)
No, the iPad CAN display pdf's that way.
But that's ALL it can do... display them.
Poorly, on the iPad. I just downloaded and tried using the iDisk app for iPhone for viewing a PDF. It has to be pixel-doubled, so the results looks lousy. Also, the iDisk app does not save files locally on the iPad, so you have to be in wifi range to use it.
Interesting, but of all the reviews I've read so far, nobody has picked up on the glaring little things that Apple has so far left undone on the iPad. An obvious one is a document reader. The other is an iPad version of the iDisk app. They also haven't released an iPad version of Remote, another obvious omission.
The big issue seems to be... someone sends me a pdf attachment in email...
I like to use the default "Mail" app for email... and it will view the pdf... but I'd rather view/save the pdf in "GoodReader". There's no way to transfer the pdf between apps... I've got to configure GoodReader's mail client to access my email account, then download it within that app... That works, but it's a bit of a "Rube Goldberg" way of accomplishing the task.
I really don't mind the lack of a full-blown "Finder" ... but... a little inter-App cooperation like that would be nice. Maybe some sort of "Clipboard" for documents/files to hold one (or more) complete files that you could then cut-and-paste between Apps.
I like the iPad a lot, but the little rough edges are becoming more apparent after a week of use.
Do any of the third party apps have the ability to comment? I've seen a lot of readers w/ expanded functionality vs. what the iPad can do on its own, but none w/ creation/editing features.
Read the thread... It's been answered.
So far, nobody has found one with a full set of authoring tools. (Or even partial authoring/editing functionality.)
Its the only way I have discovered to do this so far...
Kind regards, Sander