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GoodReader Notes

2. What is GoodReader
 GoodReader is an iPad (iPhone) app.
 Cost: $4.99
 For reading and annotating PDFs
(primary).
 Storing any document/file.
 Sharing any document/file.
 Syncing any document/file.
 “a swiss army knife of awesome” –
Mashable

3.  It was released primarily as a PDF
reader/annotater at first, but now has taken
on a life of its own.
 Download, read, annotate, manage, organize
, access, and sync just about any file.
 Access your Gmail account and see all
emails with attachments that have an
@Action or Read/Review label. You can
then scroll through/read through each
attachment.
 Store your photos at box.net. Access them
from GoodReader i.e. organize them into
folders and view slide shows there.

4. A few features
 Exceptional pdf viewer.
 Mark up and annotate original document
or a copy (keeps original pristine).
 Text extractor scans any document and
views the current page as plain text.
 Night “mode” for night reading – fully
customizable.
 A myriad ways to share, upload, download
and sync either the doc and/or all
annotations.

5. Supported files
 pdf
 doc/docx + pages
 ppt/pptx + keynote
 xls/xlsx + numbers
 html files
 jpg/png etc. (but why)
 audio files (but why)
 video files (again – not sure why)

6. Uses
 Research papers for students/academics
 Teaching tools and documents for eductators
 Meeting/seminar/conference
papers/handouts
 Manuals (pdfs) for anyone
 Paperless orgy – with all your docs
 Sign digital forms and documents (including
pdfs)
 Download files from web

7. For example …

8. Interface
 Clean
 Logical
 Mostly intuitive (some instruction needed)
 One screen (not annoying)
 Split screen (efficient)
 Works in portrait and landscape (no mean
feat)

12. Annotation Tools

13. View/Navigation Tools

14. Quick Tips
 Single click/one finger to view toolbars
 Double click/one finger to zoom in
 Single click/two fingers to zoom out
 Swipe to toggle between pages
 Pinching with 2 fingers works
 5 finger „pinching‟ only works if multi-tasking
is off

15. Tap zones

16. Developer
 JAMM Interviews Yuri Selukoff of
Good.iWare (from May 2010)
 Russian developer
 Programming started as a hobby.

17. Other Similar Apps
PDF Pen … $14.99: www.smilesoftware.com
PDF Expert … $9.99: www.readdle.com
Adobe … free: www.adobe.com
Other decent or half-way decent iPhone/iPad pdf
readers/annotators:
http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/pdf-
annotation