I don’t know all the technical details, but I do know this: It’s a good PDF reader, but not a great PDF reader - not nearly as robust as the Acrobat Reader. (You can, of course, make the navigation elements go away with a tap.)īut however you view the PDF, there’s a bigger problem to deal with: the PDF reader in the iPhone OS. Here’s an example of Adobe’s 10th anniversary book (by Pam Pfiffner) rendered in GoodReader.

A better way to view PDF files is a PDF-reader app, and the best I’ve found so far is the surprisingly inexpensive GoodReader. Unfortunately, the PDF isn’t stored locally, so it takes a long time to open each time you click on it. The iPhone/iPad OS has a PDF reader built into it - probably the same as Mac OS Quartz - that’s why you can open a PDF inside of Mail or Safari. That leaves us with three options: PDF, iApp, and a Content Delivery App. These documents tend to demand a greater sense of page design. We need to be able to publish other kinds of documents on the iPad, too, including photo essays, magazines, catalogs, manga/comics, newspapers, and more. But those formats are best for text-heavy documents with a linear flow, such as novels. In Part 1 of this article, I reviewed the options for publishing on an iPad, focusing on the ePub and Kindle formats.

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