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Originally Posted by kissyfish
I am the happy owner of an iPad, and am quite happy with it so far. After previous attempts to read (comfortably) NIST documents and other multicolumned pdfs, the iPad does this pretty nicely, but I do not like to scroll through these as if they were on long web page.
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Yeah, ditto. I've downloaded a dozen or so PDF reading apps - GoodReader, iAnnotate, etc. - and all of them do this. It's a stunning instance of programmer groupthink:
"All PDF readers on other platforms go downward, so even though right to left is the norm on the iPad we'll ignore 18 years of progress and keep doing it like we did in 1992!"
Hey, guys. Just because it's the norm - for no good reason other than an arbitrary decision by a random Adobe employee - doesn't mean you have to keep doing it the same way.
iBooks can, Kindle can, all the comic readers (CloudReaders, et. al.) can, why can't you?
Even a setting to allow right-to-left reading would be keen. Neato page flipping animations are optional, but I wouldn't complain.