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yvanleterrible · 03-04-2010, 07:09 AM

An iPad will be as good a PDF viewer as a computer is a good CAD viewer.

I draw furniture that I build so I spend a lot of time with CAD software. When you work on a 36" by 48" inch plan on a 22" monitor, you can't get a good idea of details unless you zoom in and scroll around. Navigating in the drawing is 40% of the work.

With the iPad, you get that fantastic instant pinchin/pinchout zoom. Wow!
If I'm not mistaken the display will show a full page at 90%. Big enough to be legible for reading text. If it's not, turn the display 90 degrees and zoom up until you can read a full line and then scroll the remaining few lines. That's an other beauty of this device, it's so fast that scrolling can be as quick as turning a page. You need detail? Do as Cad workers do. Zoom with the most incredibly fast zoom I've ever seen!

03-04-2010, 07:09 AM	#9
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	An iPad will be as good a PDF viewer as a computer is a good CAD viewer. I draw furniture that I build so I spend a lot of time with CAD software. When you work on a 36" by 48" inch plan on a 22" monitor, you can't get a good idea of details unless you zoom in and scroll around. Navigating in the drawing is 40% of the work. With the iPad, you get that fantastic instant pinchin/pinchout zoom. Wow! If I'm not mistaken the display will show a full page at 90%. Big enough to be legible for reading text. If it's not, turn the display 90 degrees and zoom up until you can read a full line and then scroll the remaining few lines. That's an other beauty of this device, it's so fast that scrolling can be as quick as turning a page. You need detail? Do as Cad workers do. Zoom with the most incredibly fast zoom I've ever seen!