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Top 17 iPad Apps For PDF Users

The iPad 2 has been released and there isn’t any shortage of iPad app lists online. While you can find great lists online that have a bit of everything, you can sometimes find them lacking in one aspect or another, especially if you’re looking for a specific type of functionality.

For the PDF user, it may be even harder. What about specific PDF needs? To remedy that, here’s our iPad PDF catalog featuring both free and paid apps. They’re catered to the needs any PDF user might have or may come across.

Note that apps on this list do have overlapping features, but you’ll find that one app may be more versatile than another–or on the contrary, may have only the basics you need without all the frills. The choice is yours.

If you’re shopping around for an iPhone or iPod Touch, the lowest minimum requirement for some of these apps is iOS 3.0 and later. If you’re worried about updated iPad 2 iOS 4.3 compatibility for some apps, be sure to check in with the main developer site for the latest version or feature updates.

So whether you have a new iPad 2 or just got a refurbished first gen iPad, you’re bound to find something handy.

Storage

1. Dropbox

Dropbox One thing you’ll need when it comes to sharing large PDF files from your iPad is a solid document sharing service.With Dropbox you get 2 GB free with the ability to sync Mac, Windows, and Linux computers.

If you want power user features such as online file backup, fast web access, automatic sync, and file encryption, Dropbox is the way to go.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later

2. Box.net

Box.net

Here’s a great storage app that gives you 5 GB storage for free. With the free plan, you get a file size limit of 25 MB, mobile app access, and file sharing links for easy access.

Price: Free

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

3. SugarSync

SugarSync

Syncing and backing up your files with SugarSync adds a bit more convenience with 5 GB free storage and data sync for than one device. You can sync images, music, photos, and documents anytime, anywhere on multiple computers with the assurance that your file transfers are secure.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

PDF Editing

4. PDF Reader – Annotate, Sign and Edit PDF Documents (Document Expert)

PDF Reader allows you to organize and edit your PDF files, making it one of the world’s most popular apps for PDF management. With a few button clicks, you can annotate your content, highlight, underline, add shapes, signature and backup your files via an email or Cloud storage services. With this app you will optimize your work and become more productive in no time.

Price: Free
Requirements: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPad

5. PDF Expert 6: Read, annotate & edit PDF documents

PDF Expert 6 is an app for anyone who likes to read and edit their PDFs on iPad or iPhone. With this app you can quickly edit PDF text, replace images, hide sensitive information, insert stamps, markup documents, merge PDFs and much more. It’s design and friendly user interface makes it one of the easiest apps you can use.

Price: $9.99
Requirements: Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

6. Good Reader

With Good Reader, you get some versatility along with the ability to mark up your PDFs. You can open Office, iWork files, hi-res images, and even audio and video files. For PDFs with a ton of hyperlinks, Good Reader has a handy feature that lets you toggle back and forth easily from page to page with a single tap.

Price: $4.99
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

7. PDF Highlighter

On top of all the standard features offered by mark up apps—note-taking, highlighting, and sketching, PDF highlighter has a few other special features you might enjoy. It contains an integrated browser for web links and Wikipedia lookup, annotations overview, and night mode viewing display.

Price: $6.99
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

PDF Viewers & Managers

8. ReaddleDocs

Readdle Pack is one of the most powerful and downloaded productivity app on Apple Store. Over 45 million people are happily using it everyday on their iPhones and iPads. With Readdle Productivity Pack you are getting three apps in one — Scanner Pro, PDF Expert, Printer Pro. All these apps are carefully designed, allowing you to quickly create, edit, and print your documents.

Price: $13.99
Requirements: Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

9. PDFCache

Web To PDF is a free app that gives you the opportunity to save your favorite online content to PDF and share it with others. This is really handy when you wish to highlight some data, insert text and shapes or add your personal notes. The converted files will look 100% as the original pages.

Price: Free
Requirements: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Developer: Darsoft Inc.

10. PDF Reader Lite

For those who aren’t heavy duty PDF users, sometimes the basics are all you need.This is where PDF Reader Lite comes in. While it allows you to store only 10 files, it has all the features of a standard PDF viewer–bookmarking, table of contents, and basic file management features.

Price: Free

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

11. iBooks

If you love to read and enjoy a good book, this is the right app for you. iBooks allows you to enjoy a good story, right from the comfort of your iPhone or iPad. There are numerous different genres you can choose from including classics, new authors, bestsellers, fantasy, sci-fi, autobiographies and even audiobooks.

Price: Free

Requirements: Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

12. Avenza PDF Maps

Avenza PDF Maps Ever receive a map in the PDF format? Here’s a geospatial app that not only lets you view PDF maps on your iPad but also lets you interact with them. Navigate through maps with regular iPad gestures, add/edit waypoints, find co-ordinates, and locate yourself with the iPad’s built-in GPS system.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

13. PDF Manager Professional

PDF Manager Professional PDF Manager gives you the versatility you need to handle PDFs on your iPad. With this app you have a few ways to easily manage and share your PDF files: share files via popular networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc.),through email, or offline.

Price: $3.99
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later

Other

14. Magachine

As you know, PDF files aren’t really optimized for mobile devices, giving you a less than stellar viewing experience. To improve that, there’s Magachine. According to the translated webpage, this app can turn your PDF into a magazine style layout for easier reading.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

15. PDF Presentation

With PDF Presenter you can store, manage and read all your PDF documents, with a single click. Import your PDFs from your emails or from the corresponding browser and keep everything well organized and prepared. This tool is simple to use and you can get controls over your presentation in no time.

Price: $6.99
Requirements: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

16. Print n Share for Advanced Printing

Undoutedly, having the option to print up a file directly from your iPad is a necessity.Print n Share for Advanced Printing is a feature packed app that can print to all printers via Mac or PC, remotely over 3G, and to most WiFi printers.

Price: $8.99

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

17. PDF Snapshot

*If you’re looking for more versatility with your PDF, check out PDF Snapshot. This app will extend your PDF applications to create, email and copy snapshots of images in your PDF. With the latest version, you can even annotate the PDF before you take the snapshot.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later

Need A PDF? Here Are A Few More Search Engines To Check Out. Finally!

Last year, PDF search engines were just breaking ground on the Internet. Back then, we were only able to find and review 3 PDF search engines—and all three were in beta. Needless to say, you couldn’t be particular about your tools or your search habits when there wasn’t much to choose from.

Fortunately, more than a year later, that has changed. Thanks to the continued development of online document management, essential tools, like document search engines, are gaining ground.

Now you can find more than just 3 PDF search engines.Here are a few more that we reviewed to add to the list.

PDFQueen

PDFQueen is a free unlimited PDF search and downloading engine with millions of documents in its database. To start searching for a PDF, you can use already inputted search term tags from their collection of Recent PDF Searches, or from their collection of Last PDF Searches by Countries.

Once you search, you’ll get a page that resembles a typical Google search result. Click on a file and you get a clean HTML version to preview directly on the site with the download link right above it.

Searches done by countries will give you a list of “popular ebooks” looked for by date, which might make tailored searches easier, but with a few more clicks.

PDF-Searcher

With one test run using PDF-Searcher, you’ll get the impression that this site is based on the social media user.To start, there are bookmarking and social network icons for quick access and linking with popular sites you use everyday.

PDF Searcher

Moreover, when you get your search results back, you not only have HTML and PDF previews, but also the option of previewing files in the popular Flash format powered by PDFMeNot.

Also, while the homepage may not offer suggested search tags, you’ll get those at the bottom of your results page if what you’ve typed in doesn’t give you the right results.

docjax

If you thought PDF Database.com was a bit more versatile, you’ll think this engine is a swiss army knife.Docjax gives you the option of searching for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files.For each search result, you can preview the file, download it and even rate it by clicking on the “Love It” icon.

Docjax beta

This site is a bit cleaner than most.It offerstag clouds, recommended books andthe usual “most viewed,” “most loved,” “most downloaded,” etc., in separate menus and drop boxes, like a regular website.

As to searching for the right file, you get handy .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf tabs to instantly switch your search from format to format without having to toggle and re-search.

Rapid4Me.com

While its name might bring to mind the popular torrent, this Rapidshare Search Engine is catered specifically to PDF files and not media. Rapid4Me PDF search engine is pretty decent.Like PDFQueen you get a handful of handy tags to start off with.

Once you search, you’ll get ranked results that take you to an immediate PDF preview in your browser. If that annoys you, you also have the option to preview an HTML version first.

PDF-search.org

PDF-Search.org combines different features of the other search engines into one.It has the social bookmarking and viewing options of PDF-Searcher; the added dropbox of PDFDatabase.com for PDF, DOC, and PPT search options; and the country tagging collection of PDFQueen.

To boot, like docjax, you can toggle between formats in your search with a simple click and still have the option of viewing them in Flash.

Take a careful look at each PDF search engine. When you have a number of them to choose from, you’re bound to find one that suits you, and not the other way around!

7 Ways The PDF Is Changing The Definition Of Digital Documents

pdf dpcuments

Where digital documents have made data portability easier, they have also created confusion among their users because most digital documents are complex, unpredictable and platform dependent.

However, the PDF format has given an entirely new definition to the term “digital documents”.

Here’s a look at some of the benefits of the PDF that have made it a superior file format and that have changed the definition of what a digital document is.

With the PDF you don’t need to use different types of digital documents for storing different types of data. Whether you’re handling text, fonts, images, 2D graphics, digital signatures, embedded multimedia or some other form of data, the PDF is the only solution to all of your digital needs.

All in One Platform – Support for Multiple Document Formats

Your documents can comprise of plenty of pages and sheets created/designed in different softwares like Illustrator, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Photoshop, Visio, Quark etc. Also, you might need to open a document created in a platform supported by one operating system into another operating system.

With the PDF, the handling of multiple file formats and opening documents in multiple operating systems is easier than you can imagine. The PDF empowers its users to save these documents in pdf besides native application formats.

Forget about any problem you might face due to the incompatibility of different software apps to open them. Further, different document formats can be combined and categorized in the pdf format to produce a single intuitive, easy-to-use and easy-to view document.

In other words, the PDF enables its users to convert other digital documents to pdf and back again.

Ideal for the Web

There’s no need to spend long hours on converting your documents to html or web formats in order to present them to your WWW users.Just convert them into PDFs and upload them onto your web server.

PDF is the ideal platform to present, store and retrieve documents on World Wide Web due to its compact nature and easily available browser plug-ins.

When it comes to rich, colorful and graphic based documents, PDF uses the least storage space hence making it an ideal format to be used on web. What else can it do

Search engines’ support for “searches within PDF documents??? has increased the PDFs usage even more. Adobe and other vendors offer browser plugins which help users read PDF documents directly in the browser. Hence, removing any need to download the document while ensuring security and storage efficiency.

Digital Signatures

With the introduction of digital signature support for PDF, Adobe has provided another reason why the PDF is widely used.

Digital Signature Solutions provided by Adobe allows businesses and other entities to electronically exchange documents with the assurance that submitted information has not been tempered after its dispatch.

Adobe has also devised a method to verify the digital identity of a signatory in PDF documents. To make this feature more authentic Adobe has joined hands with leading security vendors, like, VeriSign, RSA, Entrust, GeoTrust, and ActivCard.

This will surely remove the need to maintain paper copies of documents to verify signatures.

Digital Archiving Standard

PDF is also becoming a standard in the field of digital archiving. Organizations can scan all kinds ofpaper based documents into PDF to maintain the easy to access yet secure, digital archive.

Further, the OCR embedded PDF solutions enable users to easily search through the text of scanned documents to find the needed document in an easier and efficient way.

Using these features, ISO versions are also being introduced which ask users to archive their documents using PDF based solutions.

Creating Interactive Documents

PDF formats enable the PDF users to create interactive digital documents with compactness and portability of a standalone document. Users can create PDF documents with links to websites, sound files, videos and forms for an exciting way of sharing information.

In fact, there are options to embed rich text, effects, animation, color features and multimedia in PDF creators, which let users to create advanced digital documents easily.

Using the advanced techniques of creating PDF documents, users can make pdf based multipage portfolios that start with an easy to navigate “main page” containing clickable links to other pages of document or websites.

Support for eBooks

It’s become easier and less problematic to create and manage ebooks in PDF formats. The ebooks in PDF formats are not like the ebooks created by other digital document creators.

PDF eBooks contain several unmatchable features which can never be experienced in printed books. Some of these unique features include adjustment of font size, non-permanent highlighting and annotation, support for animations and multimedia in the eBooks, much reduced cost and text to speech engines.

Another important aspect of PDF eBooks is their sustainable and green-friendly nature because with PDFs there is no need to manufacture paper from trees or dispose of eBooks like you can with regular books.

Creating Forms

The latest version of Adobe Acrobat empowers its users to create, manipulate and monitor electronic forms in PDF formats. Users with minimal IT understanding can create these forms easily and quickly.

These forms can be manipulated to be filled in and saved electronically. Interactive items like text fields, drop downs and check boxes can also be inserted into these PDF based forms.

Above all, the form information can be exported to spreadsheet formats as well. With the availability of PDF forms, there is no need of installing spreadsheet software apps to open and create forms.

When you take into account all of the above mentioned advantages of the PDF, you can safely say that the PDF is making revolutionary changes to the way digital documents work.

It’s simplicity, effectiveness, and ability to cover the features of all sorts of digital documents along with its integral qualities of compactness and portability makes it an ideal solution for everyone from a single user to Fortune 500s.

6 Awesome Examples of Multimedia PDFs

From cave paintings to paper documents, we’ve communicated ideas with static words and basic images. Yet thanks to the power of the PDF format, this is no longer the case.

Why should you limit your documents to archaic standards when you could have interactive, multimedia versions?

Learn what you can do with the PDF format. With the help of 6 awesome examples of multimedia PDFs and handy links, you can learn how to turn your boring, static documents into multimedia wonders.

1. Multimedia Portfolio

When you need to quickly show off a vast array of what you can accomplish with the PDF, there’s no easier way than in a PDF portfolio. They’re a great way to combine a number of multimedia elements into a single format.

Here’s one creative multimedia portfolio from the Washington Post and Slate Magazine that was recently published on the Adobe Acrobat Users Community (AAUC) gallery. It showcases a profile of current US President, Barack Obama, while on the campaign trail to the White House. This PDF portfolio puts campaigning on a different and more creative level.

Obama Navigation

If you’re a photographer, sound engineer or composer, you can use the AAUC to give your PDF portfolios some exposure and even get some tips on how to get it into top form. It’s a great place to browse tutorials on PDF Portfolios, find general tutorial articles or check into the forums for tips and tricks.

2.Video Elements

Movement attracts the human eye, so why not attract more eyes with videos embedded directly into your PDF files. Here’s a great PDF that puts the embedded video element center stage.

Created by Harry Hermus from dividi projects, this amazing PDF shows Pink Floyd musician David Gilmour’slive performance of “A Great Day For Freedom” embedded right into the PDF.

David Gilmour Logo

Embedding video in PDF files is not as hard you might think. You can even embed YouTube videos by downloading them and converting them to whatever compatible format you desire.

3. 3D Elements

Make that information leap off the page with 3D elements and highlights in your PDFs. With the right tools and some patience, you can even make them interactive.

In addition to a PDF Portfolio gallery, the AAUC also maintains a 3D PDF gallery for the PDF user community. Straight from the AAUC, this showcase gives you a first hand look at how complex a PDF graphic can get. Learn how to manipulate, rotate and view a 3D graphic right in the PDF file itself.

AUC3D Gallery

For more information on creating a 3D PDF, check out the AAUC where you can find a number of handy 3D resources.

4. Interactive Flash

Flash can be implemented through a variety of ways, though many of them will require another application or tool to help create the Flash items. Adding a Flash movie is just like adding a video (see above). Take a look at these e-brochures from PDFpictures.com. You can find a number of ways to incorporate Flash videos for different projects with different goals.

PDF Pictures logo

The AAUC gives you links to add not only a splash of action to your PDF but some interactivity as well thanks to these handy tips.

5. Audio Elements

Some information is best transferred via sound. So why not hook some audio into your PDF? Find out how to effectively integrate sound with your content in this e-brochure from Uniquely Merit that showcases group vacations to a number of different countries. Cultural music specific to each country plays in the background as you turn through the pages.

eBrochures

Creating an effective atmosphere with music is a quick and simple task and only requires a few steps. Simply click Acrobat> Tools> Advanced Editing or you can attach the file via Acrobat > Document >Attach a file.

You can also do it another way where you’ll be able to add comments to the PDF as you go. This means that even if you’re not present when someone is reading your PDF you can incorporate your thoughts and voice into it. By selecting Acrobat > Tools > Commenting (or Acrobat > Comments > Commenting Tools [version dependent]) you can get access to the tools you need to record and embed your comments where and when you need to.

6. PDF as a website

Another cool use of PDFs is to use them as an entirely interactive and portable website to promote yourself and your products. Take for example dividiprojects, a PDF website geared towards “Delivering sales, marketing and communications information…effectively. They specialize in creating interactive PDFs, e-brochures and presentations.

DividiPDF navigation

With interactive buttons, videos and sound you could be saving yourself time and money by simply forgoing a standard web presence and present your potential clients and business partners with one multimedia experience that they can even view offline if need be.

Discover real world examples of awesome multimedia PDFs by checking out the ebook, Dynamic Media: Music, Video, Animation, and the Web in Adobe PDF. In this book, author Bob Connolly puts together 11 case studies illustrating the nearly limitless potential of rich media in the PDF format.

Dynamic Media Logo

Here’s the summary of the ebook to get a sneak peek.

With these tips and some practice you’ll be making some of the most mundane documents into extraordinary multimedia experiences your readers will love!

How The PDF Can Solve 7 Problems

pdf problem solution The Adobe PDF format is extremely versatile. It’s a swiss army knife format that can help you out in a number of tight situations.

But are you still asking just how versatile the PDF is and how that versatility can help you? Let’s show you what the PDF can do.

Here are 7 real-life problems you can solve with just this one format.

Problem #1 – Data Security

I’m worried about data being stolen from my computer or someone reading a file that they shouldn’t. How can the PDF help me?

Well Adobe Acrobat 9 has improved document security built right into it. So you don’t need to worry about the secret company information getting into the wrong hands or the wrong eyes seeing it. It allows you to set a password for everything from opening to changing. You can control whether or not a document can be printed and even permanently remove specific information or meta information. You can even prevent files from copying, editing and commenting (according to the Adobe Acrobat website).

Example Document types:

Invoices
Contracts and agreements
Surveys and questionnaires
HR forms and documents
Strategic planning documents
Design reviews
Pharmaceutical submissions
Government and military intelligence briefs

Problem #2 – Easy Collaboration and Editing

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