Comments on: iPad Day 2 — PDF reading and annotating

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:01:35 +0000

Second on noterize. Everything you can do to paper plus voice notes plus cloud. ONLY weakness is organizing PDFs and you have good reader for that, or readdledocs if you like batch imports and shiny UI.

Reiterate: noterizenoterizenoterize.

By: Amazing Iceman

Amazing Iceman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:05:34 +0000

I have been testing Noterize, and it seems very good. It has several ways to connect, including cloud (dropbox, etc.).
It can annotate any kind of documents, including PDFs containing only bitmap info (such as a scan that hasn’t been run through OCR.

By: Staci

Staci — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:22:55 +0000

Found the solution for me! It was suggested that I delete Stanza app and my documents would open normally and it does! Even older emails that wouldn’t open before, work perfectly now. But just like Nick, I’ll now be able to open them in iBooks also if I want. An interesting turn of events, but if I can open it in any functioning app, I’m thrilled.

By: Staci

Staci — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:37:20 +0000

Hi Nick, I haven’t had anything open in iBooks except for the items I’ve purchased. I have been able to download items to my laptop from GoodReader. The pdf docs show up in the app tab in my itunes (scroll down past the screens of the iPad/iPhone) and gives me the choice to save when I click on the item I want to download. It’s my favorite app to read scripts and manuscripts for work.

I’m hoping the changes to the email debacle correct themselves or I will lose 75% of the reason I bought this iPad.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:19:51 +0000

Staci- I’m having a similar issue. I used to be able to have the option to open PDFs in QuickOffice. but now it defaults to only being able to open in iBooks. I haven’t changed any settings.
Very frustrating.
On another note, I’m trying to get PDFs off of my iPad onto my laptop…this would be hugely beneficial as I travel quite a bit and don’t have an air card for my laptop. When im not near wifi, it would be great to use the ipad to get documents from email/web and copying them to my laptop.

By: Staci

Staci — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:32:37 +0000

Has anyone else had the weird issue of downloading PDF from the iPad email. I use to be able to open directly from the email into GoodReader. Working like a charm until last Friday and now all that downloads is a view of the first page. I was hoping to avoid having to lug my laptop w/ me when I travel in order to upload documents. I haven’t changed any settings and I’ve tried emailing from different providers, but it seems to be how the iPad now views PDFs in the email.

Help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

By: john

john — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:34:04 +0000

Hmm that does suck Fred. Just duplicated myself, that is pretty annoying. I hadn’t tried this til now because i have been uploading annotations using the mac aji reader service which works fine, but a bummer that email doesn’t work.

By: Fred Zimmerman

Fred Zimmerman — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:40:24 +0000

iannotate continues to be supremely disappointing. You can bring files in easily enough from drop box or from email, and you can quite beautifully annotate them in Iannotate. However–and this is the kicker–once you’ve annotated them and email the back to yourself the annotations have disappeared!

By: Viswam

Viswam — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:52:38 +0000

I am a PC user, and annotate all my journal articles using Adobe acrobat professional on my desktop. It works great for this. I was hoping that my new iPad would live up to the hype and allow me to continue doing this. Sadly, and as verified by this discussion, the apps are way behind in functionality. For now, the iPad is a nice and expensive toy, but of hardly much use for my work. Alas.

By: john

john — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:25:12 +0000

Sh — PDF may be a dinosaur but is still the published format for millions of technical papers and that doesn’t seem to be changing fast. While I agree it is a painful format for online use, it is going to be around for a long time.