Legal professionals are increasingly using mobile devices to access documents. Of course, usage of PDF in the legal industry is widespread.
I’m happy to report that Adobe Reader for iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) is now available. It’s free.
There are quite a few PDF-related products in the app store, but it appears that a lot of folks were looking forward to the "real" PDF Reader.
Adobe Reader for iOS let’s you:
- View and magnify PDFs on your iPhone or iPad
- Search for text
- Navigate Bookmarks in the PDF
- Scrolling Control
- Continuous vertical
- Swipe left and right
- Supports password protected documents
- Supports rights-managed documents (Adobe LiveCycle)
- Email and Print documents
Adobe Reader for iPad includes a graphical Getting Started document, but the app is so easy to use I doubt you’ll need it.
I’ve included a screen shot below which shows the bookmark view.
Comments
That is welcome… I would suggest the ability to remember the last page read on each document.
Without that, I find it hard to use it with multiple docs.
Good suggestion.
I’ve been waiting for the “remember” functionality for a long time, with it I would not look for other PDF readers any more.
Remember?
I would recommend reflow for when zoom is applied to the document. Hard to navigate pdf when zoom feature is on. Thank-you.
Unfortunately, very few PDFs actually have the reflow tags turned on.
Are you suggesting that since “Unfortunately, very few PDFs actually have the reflow tags turned on,” it’s not necessary to add reflow to Reader on the iPad? Regardless of how many documents have reflow tags turned on, the feature should be a must for smaller screens. I create my own documents to view in Reader on my iPad, so I can control tagging. As it is now, I have to spend extra time formatting the document with a custom page size and sized fonts, so they read comfortably on the iPad. Reflow would make it so much easier.
It is a good suggestion. Acrobat XI has better accessibility features than previous versions.
A feature that is still missing, is filling in forms and signing them. Does anyone know if this is planned in the near future?
See the latest version! http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2012/04/new-reader-for-ios-and-android-annotates-and-fills-forms/
Merci Bien
What about being able to rotate a document, very frustrating
We hear you! I’ve let
Does this reader allow you to view annotated pdfs?
Yes.
Can i record my voice to pdf file like Acrobat Pro on Windows ?
No, but that is an interesting idea!
The pdf that I’m viewing does not have the bookmark option available. I understand that the pdf might not have existing chapter bookmarks, but don’t tell me it’s impossible to do bookmark system just based on user defined page numbers. Your software doesn’t seem to have it.
I also don’t see an option for rotating pdf’s, which is fun if I happen to be viewing a file which has a native sideways orientation.
I also can’t zoom and lock the image.
How the F is it so hard to do a document viewer? I’ve tested 5 different ones and they are all missing something. The one that had mostly everything I need actually lagged on the page peripherals, unbelievable. How hard can it be to do one properly?
I love your comment! Thanks for sharing. Adobe Reader isn’t a PDF editor and adding bookmarks changes the file, so that is not supported. I will share your comments with our engineering team.
Why does the Adobe LiveCycle token for the measuring tool not work on the iPad version or reader?
We publish online plans and drawings to scale and being able to measure online would be a great development!
Measurement tools are not part of Adobe Reader mobile, sorry.
does any1 know if the editeble pdf form can be emailed after being edited ?
so the person i send it to can see what i edited ?
Yes, you can email it after you edit it.
We need to fill forms, but we password protect them (encrypt) in Acrobat. Is there any way to fill these protected forms?
I tested this. Reader Mobile does not currently allow you to fill in forms which are encrypted.
I’m using adobe for my ipad and the PDFs will not open. I keep getting the please wait message, but then the document never loads. It worked fine in the past, but now it will not load. Ive updated adobe reader, updated my iPad, turned it on and off, redownloaded the app, still will not load.
Similarly nothing will load in the iBooks app or any other PDF viewer apps
This sounds like an iOS issue. You might need to refresh the OS on your iPad.
Good points… I love being able to add comments, underline relevant bits, etc. etc.
But I’m a bit upset that the notes I make do not print when printing directly form the Adobe app on the Ipad. How does one fix this?
Yes, I verified this. I’d never printed from my iPad before, but I found a hack that let me do so. I will look into this.
How do I save the pdf files that i receive in e mail as attachment.? Every time i have to open the e mail and download the pdf file. kindly help me out.
From Apple Mail, hold you finger down on the attachment to select it, then choose Open In . . . from the menu which will pop up. Then, choose Adobe Reader.
Hello, is it possible to use the “single page view” or “automatic view”, but without the “swipe effect” (so the page would be replaced by the next one without sliding on the left or on the right)? This would help me to use presentations that are created with latex beamer.
Pierre
I don’t think that is possible.
I agree with a comment above that the product for iOS should have the ability to add bookmarks. This is the one feature that would add ease to the viewing of large documents.
That currently isn’t supported in Reader on the desktop, either, but I understand the request.
can you create and fill forms in the reader for ipad?
You cannot create a form, but you can fill in and save data in a form on the iPad.
This is a great app: adnotate, select text etc. and free. Perfect. But you, Rick I mean, don’t understand the bookmark request mentioned above. In iBooks you can add so-called bookmarks, but they don’t chnage the file!
They are stored in the app not the file. It’s not an editing feature just a way to know where you left off. Give it a try, see for yourself.
If you haven’t used this feature in iBooks, the app creates creates a new window of thumbnails. I don’t find it particularly useful myself.
One more thing: bookmarks or no bookmarks, at least a back button would be great (as in back to previous view). For example, you read a page, go the table of contents and choose another page, but how do you get back to the original page? Without a back button like the desktop version, it’s quite frustrating.
Thanks for listening (well, reading
That’s is a great suggestion.
It would be great to be able to turn of the black pop up page number tab – I find it really distracting when reading on an iphone. I can just tap the screen if I need to know what page I’m on.
Really like the continuous scrolling feature – so much better for PDF’s than ibooks.
is the program able to open up and view pdf’s that were created from scanned images such as old, out of print books? (all the free books on google books for example)
When I create a PDF Portfolio for meeting papers, when I try to open each individual file in the PDF Portfolio on my ipad a prompt comes up asking me to download Adobe Reader. I downloaded Adobe Reader and can now read the PDF’s but the ‘annotation’ icon is greyed out so I can’t write notes or highlight anything on the document. I can only do this if I open the same document in Notes Plus. Any ideas why I can’t annotate a PDF Portfolio document on my ipad? help please!
We had someone else ask this recently and I have asked our product manager about this. I don’t think we currently support annotations on attachments. (the files in a PDF portfolio are considered attachments).
UPDATE: Our product team let me know that commenting on attachments is not supported at the present time.
I get why there isn’t a bookmark function but is there a way to open a document on the last page viewed so that you don’t have to start from the begining every time?
No, but that is an interesting suggestion.
It would be a great addition if the iOS version of adobe reader could record and playback audio, like the windows version of adobe reader XI.
Haven’t heard that request before. What is your use case?