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View Poll Results: What type of PDF do you consume most often? | |||
Mostly text, with little to no images | 8 | 36.36% | |
Mostly images, such as comic books, certain reference materials, etc. | 5 | 22.73% | |
Other (Please reply with your response) | 9 | 40.91% | |
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03-18-2017, 09:08 AM | #16 | |
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I'm an (amateur) Egyptologist - specifically in the area of the ancient Egyptian language - and have all the reference materials I use when translating Egyptian texts on my iPad. I'll generally have at least four documents open at once: the text I'm working on, a hieroglyphic dictionary, a hieroglyphic sign list (used to figure out where to find a word in the dictionary), and an Egyptian grammar book - and I need to constantly flip between them. I couldn't use any PDF reader which didn't offer a similar capability. Does your software offer this ability? I've also answered, I notice, your question about what sort of PDFs I use it for . Page-scanned PDFs. |
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03-18-2017, 09:18 AM | #17 |
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03-20-2017, 05:21 AM | #18 | |
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However, GoodReader for the win:
(And yes, I use *all* of them). A wish list for GoodReader:
(1) One of the reasons I'm not using Hyphen as my ePUB reader in iOS is because it does not automatically syncs the book reading position. You need to sync all the library and if you have a lot of books that is very inconvenient. My other elections for iOS, Marvin, does a good synchronization but only the book position and not the notes/reading statistics (and has another annoying bugs that seems aren't resolved by the developer), and MapleRead does a perfect font rendering but lacks automatica sync... My two cents. Last edited by rfog; 03-20-2017 at 05:26 AM. |
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03-20-2017, 07:25 AM | #19 | |
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hum, I could see that as part of an Apple iPad commercial. |
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03-20-2017, 09:17 AM | #20 |
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Multiple document support is absolutely essential for anyone doing academic research, but a feature that normal book reading apps completely ignore. It really is what separates GoodReader from the rest of the pack. I'd go so far as to say it's the primary reason I have an iPad!
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03-20-2017, 09:11 PM | #21 |
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I also only use pdf files as reference although many craft and cookbooks do come this way. I have to put those on my Nook HD+ with the larger screen.
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03-21-2017, 05:10 AM | #22 | |
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03-21-2017, 05:13 AM | #23 |
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Scientific articles. A good mixture of text, graphs and micrographs.
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Thanks everyone for all the feedback provided so far, it's all very useful!
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03-21-2017, 04:28 PM | #25 |
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Thanks - that's one I've not looked at.
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03-21-2017, 05:00 PM | #26 |
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03-21-2017, 06:08 PM | #27 |
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Thanks. Yes, file management is another of GoodReader's strengths.
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03-31-2017, 05:28 PM | #28 |
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pdf is a fixed layout format for print, it doesn't belong in screens
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04-01-2017, 04:26 AM | #29 | |
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But the most use of the PDF in screens, in touch screens, is the annotation possibility. You cannot draw in a ePub, nor make handwritten annotations, cross out and even overwrite over a word. And most important thing of all, PDF annotation is standard across Viewers/Editors. You can do it in a iPad with GoodReader, go to Sumatra PDF in a Windows machine and the annotation is there, exactly the same, with the same size and same colors. This cannot be done with any eBook format. Each viewer has its own annotation format, separated from the document you are annotating, so you get married not only with a platform (iOS, Android, Windows, ...), but even with one application and one device, because most of the apps (practically all) does not syncs notes across devices. If you don't need that, welcome, but other people like me enjoys doing that, like in a real book with a zillion or two of advantages over eBooks. I only use ePub/mobi/etc. for novels. Even for divulgation books that can come in eBook format or PDF, I select PDF or even buy the death tree version. |
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04-19-2017, 01:19 AM | #30 |
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while i used desktop pc adobe acrobat is my choice
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