PDF - reading on iPhone/iPad

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PDF - reading on iPhone/iPad

Hi, may sound a bit simplistic, but: 1. which is the most convenient PDF-reader ( I do have +iBooks, Stanza and PrintCentral+ = printing app for dierct wireless printing, and +PDF lite+ ) - Thus, I own several, but to be honest, the differences are not clear to me, as I actually bought the apps for other reasons - However.. --2. when I open an attachment of a mail , it will show me a little "open" box which displays eg: +Stanza,PrintCentral & iBooks+ but NOT all) -- 3. thus: is there a setting, by which one could activate/deactivate the PDF-reading and 4. what is the PDF-app for a) iPhone and b) iPAd, which is most useful ? ( personally I do like bookmark options, notes on the PDF would be great, but not mandatory) - ANY suggestions, pls

MacPro13, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iPhone3G, iPad

Posted on Jul 7, 2010 6:04 AM

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Answer 1

nick101

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Jul 7, 2010 6:35 AM in response to hs111

Just reading - Goodreader, by a distance. Annotating - iAnnotate

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StevePug2

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Jul 7, 2010 1:28 PM in response to hs111

Certainly Goodreader for sure, though there are plenty of others (search for PDF in the App Store). To address your other questions, I have never seen any setting that controls the "Open in" dialogue's listing. It's all internally done. Whenever you have a choice in apps, always get either an app designed specifically for the iPad or one that is designed to work differently on the iPad than it does on the iPhone. The only time I ever put iPhone only apps on my iPad is when there are no comparable ones available designed for the iPad. Finally, iBooks, Stanza and others will read PDF files but they aren't designed for that specifically whereas an app like Goodreader is. It therefore has much more practicality, you'll find, as a PDF reader and manager.

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hs111 Author

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Jul 8, 2010 12:50 AM in response to StevePug2

Thnx ( also @nick101): ad1) I'll take Goodreader, then -- ad 2) what I was relating to: when simply clicking on a pdf-attachment ( eg: of an email), it is a) displayed already with the ( suggestive) icon of PrintCentral - then, when clicking on it, on my configuration a pop-up offers 3 options ( obviously 3 other apps, which have this capability: +iBooks, Stanza, and PrintCentra+l, +GoodReader (lite)+ is not displayed as an option - so I thought , that somehow/somewhere these choice are configurable-- 3) in OTHER words. how do I then "force" GoodReader to be my choice for all ( it's appears to me, that if I transfer any doc by WiFi or such to my iPhone/iPad), I can choose the reader, of course; email attachments ma be a different case -? ) - Comment again appreciated

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StevePug2

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Jul 8, 2010 8:58 PM in response to hs111

I just don't think there is any way to control how the email app applies that "Open in..." thing. If you have an app that supports an attachment being opened in it and it registers itself as such with the iPad OS, then it should show up in the list. But I see no way to control any of those things from Settings or the mail app. It's simply as it is and that way alone, I'm pretty sure.

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