Comments We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of Adobe Reader X for Android phones and tablets. Reader X is faster and more secure than the previous versions, and brings in lots of new features as well! See below for a summary of the new features in this release.
Text Search
Reader X allows you to search for any text within a PDF document. Search results are highlighted as shown in the image below. Press the search key on your device, or the search icon in the floating top bar to enter the search mode. You can easily go back and forth between the search results using the buttons placed in the middle at the bottom of the screen, and press your device’s back button or the cross button on top-right to move out of the search mode.
Password-protected documents
Also added in this release is support for password protected documents. Reader X lets you view documents protected using Acrobat X or earlier (based on RC4, AES 128-bit, and AES 256-bit algorithms).
Quickly jumping between pages in long documents
Reader X introduces a slider which can be used to quickly move between pages (in documents larger than 5 pages). You can drag this slider thumb to quickly jump to any part of the document. You can also jump to a page by tapping at any position on the slider. The page indicator at the top left position displays the page number corresponding to the thumb position.
Sharing a document
Also new in Reader X is the ability to easily share the currently opened document using any of the various sharing mechanisms available on your Android device. Depending on the configuration of your device, this can include sharing the document via email, Bluetooth, or various other services. Tap the Share icon in the top bar to share the document.
Fit-to-Screen viewing mode
For those users who like to look at PDF documents one page at a time, Reader X introduces a new “Fit-to-Screen” viewing mode in addition to the earlier Continuous Scroll mode. This mode is especially useful if you’re reading presentations. Use the “View Mode” menu option to switch to this mode.
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While in Fit to Screen mode, you can navigate across pages in two ways: 1) Tap on the ‘hot zones’ near the left and right of the screen to take you to the previous or next page respectively, 2) Swipe the screen horizontally towards the left or right to navigate to the next or previous page respectively.
PDF Portfolios
Reader X enables you to view the contents of PDF portfolios, and to open any PDF files contained within them. You can browse through the files and directories within the PDF portfolio in a hierarchical manner.
Performance & Security
Thanks to a huge emphasis on performance, Reader X is visibly faster than the previous releases. There have also been a large number of security fixes in this release making this a much more secure Reader release on this platform.
Support for Tablets
In addition to phones, Reader X has been designed to work well on Android Tablets as well. With a larger screen on the tablets you can enjoy a high quality PDF viewing experience with Reader X.
More Languages
Reader X is available in 7 new languages (Czech, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Swedish) in addition to the previously supported English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch.
Access points to features
[Update: 11/19/2010] Based on user feedback on the Android Market, we’re posting below a visual guide to the access points for various features in Reader X.
Needless to say, this is a feature packed release and we encourage you to install/update to Adobe Reader X and give us your valuable feedback. Please write to adobereader-android@adobe.com or comment on this blog post with your feedback. You can also post your queries on the User to User forums.
Please refer the Adobe Reader X for Android Release notes for further details about this release.
On behalf of the Reader Mobile Engineering Team
If I can’t access the Marketplace on my tablet then how do I get the app?
Copy it on an SD disk on your desktop or laptop and insert it into your phone or tablet. That is how I did it. I have Android emulated on my windows phone.
I wish to read downloaded library books on my android G2. How do i do this?
regards,
Ted
If you want to read pdf’s on your phone, find another reader or track down the old version. this will not reflow pdf’s anymore.
Reflow will be back soon – refer our other blog post at: http://blogs.adobe.com/readermobile/2011/11/01/wheres-reflow-in-adobe-reader-for-android-10-1/
Thanks,
Gaurav
Where are bookmarks or at least the ability to remember the page I was on after I close the book and come back?
i need the ability to annotate on the pdf
PDF does not allow fit to screen, highlighting as well a annotations. These functions are important to me as a PDF user.
I still miss the possibility to open the document on the last viewed page, at least for the last closed document.
Also need to annotate PDFs. Specifically, highlight text and add comment. Don’t need to draw arrows and boxes, or do anything freehand.
There is a need for an android pdf app that can highlight text and add notes. Why not adding these features in the update? The windows version of Reader X does have these poosibilities. A missed opportunity IMO.
I use a few documents at one time. All of them are large. I have not found a way to bookmark a page that I am using. Please let me know if this feature is included and I am not seeing it.
You do not mention bookmarking and/or taking notes with this application. Is it a feature that will be added soon?
PDF annotation support is definitely a killer feature! Please include this!
When reading a pdf, the oval with the current page number ie ( 2/244) on the top left often covers up the first few words of text and it takes too long to fade out. Can you move this to the bottom of the page so it doesn’t interfere with reading the first line of each new page? As it is now, I have to wait a few seconds to start reading each page as the text is covered by the page status.
Need to be able to use interactive forms. this version does not support this to my knowledge.
Please enable the use of bookmarks!
problem in browsing a long document (a book, 700pages):
Scroller is ok, but why not add the Table of Content view? Aldiko has it and it works pretty well.
Also, I love zooming in with one tap, but it should zoom in the point I am tapping (now it zoom the center of the page, regardless)
While reading in mobile devices, bookmarking is an essential feature. Its a common cenario start reading and need to stop doing that suddenly. Its necessary to allow the user records the last read page.
REflow is excellent but please move the page numbers to the bottom right hand side of the screen!
Needs the ability to search for text within multiple pdf files at the same time the way the full version will on Windows.
Needs Xoom support!!
It is much faster and reflows text nicely. I am reading books with programing code, where reflowing text isn’t helpful so I can’t believe that there is no zoom button (like 15%, 20% etc.), jump to page (like insert page number) and bookmarks. Any way i hope you will fix this in next version. Good Job!
Great, just what I need but without zoom I cannot read what is on my experia x8
how to download this app?
Please add “remember last opened page” functionality.
Shortly after books were invented the book mark was invented. A clever device which allowed the reader to start from the page he last read. Oh dear adobe what happened to common sense? Did you really produce a quality application without that most obvious requirement? or does no one in adobe use their own software?
I have a rooted B&N NookColor. The resident .pdf reader was very limited, so I downloaded the Adobe Reader X app from the market. It is on my device, but I can’t use it. If I download a .pdf from the web, the B&N .pdf reader opens it. When I open the Adobe app, I can not find a way to open a .pdf file on my device. How do I open a .pdf file with the app?
A very nice app so far, but it lacks a few essential functions for me:
- remember last shown page so I can continue reading where I left off when the app or document is closed.
- “jump to page” in reflow text mode. And why not add a simple Go to Page Number box?
- move the page number display away from the top left of a new page where I want to be able to read the text.
3 things are missing
bookmarks, highlighting and annotations
for now i’ll stay with EZpdf its not perfect but much better then adobe reader
Without bookmarks its worthless..
If i have five pdf do i need to wrote down in notes where i am on each one?
Please add bookmarks…
Can this adobe reader be used for filling pdf forms, saving them and then mailing them or sending them via wifi to be printed. if not is there any other pdf software which can do all that for a android based phone ?
please answer the question posted by Steve.
please include why not.
please give the real why not.
Hi,
Adobe Reader on Android doesn’t currently support form filling, but that’s high on our priority list. Please stay tuned to this blog for updates regarding this.
Thanks,
Gaurav
When I scan the barcode and try to open it, it comes back that its not in the android market?????????? am I missing something?
It would be great if you could add highliting feature and bookmarking, these are the two major feature that should be added in a future update. I seem not to be the only one to say that…
What is the largest size PDF I can view with Reader X on a Samsung Galaxy Tab? I need to view blueprints at sizes between 250KB and 1.4Mb, but everytime I do I get an error that says ‘out of memory’.
Please support bookmarks or last page was on.
How disappointing is the 10.2 app I just installed on my Android 2.2 tablet. Slow searching, no bookmarks, and can’t view table of contents. Probably will just stick with Akimbo or Docs to Go. This one is simply back to the 90′s
I use Adobe SendNow to export documents as pdf files from my iMac to my Android phone. When the same document is updated and re-exported, it gets added to the phone with a version number. How do I get Adobe Reader on the phone to replace the old version?
Why isn’t there any feature to highlight?
Hi,
Thanks for posting your feature requests – these have been entered in our internal database and would be considered for future updates.
Regards,
Gaurav
does this allow 3d viewing for pdf’s in adriod based tablets , saved in 3d mode from designing softwares like solidworks ??
thnx in advance for the reply
Is it a bug or hushed up lack of feature but my Nexus S with installed latest Reader X does show me a note that I need to upgrade my Reader to be able ro listen to audio content inside Pencast PDFs
Hi,
This feature is currently not supported in the Reader on Android.
-Gaurav
Help ! I have a problem : after having tackled between the (excellent) fit-to-page mode and the (interesting) reflow mode, I decided to gove a try to “continuous” mode, and now I am stuck on it because the tactile buttons to change mode do not reappear anymore.
Is there a way to get back to “fit to screen” mode ? I tiried but rebooting my tablet (Hannspree SN10T1), by clearing the cache, by looking for an option tag in the “Applications” page : no way. Do you know what I should do ?
Try Menu -> Fit to Screen mode.
Still can’t annotate/ink directly on document like PDF Annotator allows. Unfortunately PDF Annotator does not have an Android version. From a business standpoint that keeps me from going to Android tablets.
Was hoping to see the comment function sometime soon.
Hi,
Thanks for posting your feature request – these have been entered in our internal database and would be considered for future updates.
Regards,
Gaurav
This app works wonders on my Hero. Myy only qualm is, where is the BOOKMARK function.
Thanks for your request – Bookmarks is on top of our list and should be on its way in a future update.
Regards,
-Gaurav
is there Read out option ?
Bookmarks will be awesome! Also, I have an adobe CD Rom book I loaded to my Samsung Tablet. On my PC I have the ability to click on an image to hear a recorded dialog. I would LOVE for my Tablet to be able to do the same… It also jumps from pages and chapters from links within each document… PLEASE put this on your list of “Stuff to fix” This would be amazingly appreciated!
Thanks in advance, ~Winnie Marie
Thanks Winnie,
Bookmarks are well on their way, so please stay tuned to this blog if you’d like to know as soon as they’re available.
-Gaurav
How the eff did you forget to include a bookmark???? would have taken about oooh the time it takes to say bookmark bookmark bookmark.
Love bookmark.
cant found bookmark for the latest version.. huhu. pls assist
Hi,
Bookmarks will show up only if there are bookmarks in your document. Refer the screenshots in this blog post for where to find the button (towards the bottom right corner).
Thanks,
-Gaurav
where has reflow text gone? seriously useless for me now…
Don’t worry, Reflow will be back soon! Please refer our other post on this blog at: http://blogs.adobe.com/readermobile/2011/11/01/wheres-reflow-in-adobe-reader-for-android-10-1/
Thanks,
Gaurav
1) BOOKMARKS!!
2) JUMP TO PAGE X
3) ZOOM!
The latest version of Adobe Reader (10.1) on Androiid supports all of those!
Thanks,
-Gaurav
First, I love the app, thanks. PDF documents have never looked that good on Android devices.
Also, if I may suggest an improvement, the app would be even better if it jumped automatically to the last read page of the document.
Cheers,
I have a lot of pdf file (~1000) on my tablet (TF101). File browsing is impossible by Reader X. It lists all the files instead of browsing by folders. I have to use external filemanager to browse a file.
Is it possible that Reader X doesn’t list external SDcard in its own browser?
Hi,
We understand the concern, and hope to resolve this problem in a future update. In the meantime, please use external file manager tools to navigate your PDF files.
Thanks,
Gaurav
When I dock ASUS TF101 into keyboard or I release from, the program exits to “Recently Viewed”.
Thanks for this bug report – it has been logged internally.
Regards,
-Gaurav
How do you get the slider to be displayed when it hidden?
Just tap anywhere near the middle of the visible screen area.
-Gaurav
Would there be a user guide that explains how to use all these features? It would be very helpful – I am trying to learn while training a group of 12.
We have only a very basic getting started guide on basic usage, not detailed documentation. What features would you like to see more fully documented? We may need to add more documentation as we add more functionality, but I would like to have us focus on making the product not require it.
Yes, as many have said above, I would love a feature to add highlighting.
I would also love to be able to annotate the highlighted content.
Thank you for the app. The screen draw slow and gets low quality when I zoom-in and out. It takes more time to redraw new areas. I saw the PDF viewer on iPad and it is much smoother.
“Out of Memory” error is really inconvenient on X. With Version 9.X we could open files as large a 7MB. Now with X can’t open one as small as 1.3MB. Need a fix for this ASAP.
It would be great if the application allowed me to print/share one page as opposed to the whole document
I have a problem with portfolios…. I have one with around 100 subfiles (a total of 140mb) but it will only show half of them… Any idea why?
We will need to look into this issue, and see if it is a general problem with portfolios containing a very large number of files, or perhaps unique to that one file.
Dennis Griffin
Adobe
Can’t find a way to delete my PDF files on my Android phone.
This is a great request, and we’re looking into this for a future update.
Dennis Griffin
Adobe
link me with a suitable Adobe pdf reader for my Samsung Galaxy Android phone-GT 5832.
As long as you have Android 2.2 or newer, you can get Adobe Reader from Google Play.
Why does it doesnt remember the last page read? That is an extremely important feature.
Sorry, it does. I just uninstaled and instaled it back again and it works now.
Thanks!!!!
Adobe Reader for Android and iOS should remember the last page read for recent documents. Have you updated to the latest version? And is the document one that is in your recently read list?
BOOKMARKS. Why can’t we write them? Do I always have to scroll back to the last read page? I can’t believe it actually lacks the feature.
User added bookmarks is a great suggestion, but Reader also remembers your last read page, and should send you back there when you re-open a document. Make sure you are updated to the latest version to get this feature!
Dennis Griffin
Adobe
Not quite a full release of Reader X. I, like many others, would also greatly appreciate the addition highlighting, bookmarking, annotation, commenting, and change-tracking.
If you haven’t done so already, update to our latest version, which adds these features!
Dennis Griffin
Adobe
A very important couple of feature are required for Adobe Reader for Android:
1. view to fit text width (for optimum usage of the tablet’s screen size)
2. enable/disable horizontal scrolling/pan so that with the above feature (fit view to text width) will prevent left/right page moving when vertical scrolling is the only needed
is that applicable?
Could do with a bookmarking function uergently please