Hi everyone,
Finding the right annotation/reader app is important to me since I, as thousands of others in academics, spend much of my time reading PDF format journal articles and books.
Specific goals of this thread:
(1) Get app suggestions from you along with feature explanations
(2) Maintain an updated list of apps with continuous vertical scrolling
(3) Maintain a list of suggestions for the developers of specific apps
Also, feel free to discuss why app developers ignore repeated requests to include simple features. For example, why won't PDF Expert or Goodreader include vertical scrolling and why doesn't iAnnotate offer fullscreen viewing or better/consistent scroll lock.
Apps with vertical scrolling:
1. iAnnotate
+Cloud services syncing
+Continuous Vertical Scrolling
- No zoom while locked (ala good reader)
- Zoom/orientation messes up when you rotate device
- annoying tabs on sides of page
- Date and Time show
2. Safari
3. Adobe Reader
-no Dropbox
-no scroll lock
4. PDFMate
5. Foxit PDF reader
6. Bookend (although I could not open any pdf in this program)
Finding the right annotation/reader app is important to me since I, as thousands of others in academics, spend much of my time reading PDF format journal articles and books.
Specific goals of this thread:
(1) Get app suggestions from you along with feature explanations
(2) Maintain an updated list of apps with continuous vertical scrolling
(3) Maintain a list of suggestions for the developers of specific apps
Also, feel free to discuss why app developers ignore repeated requests to include simple features. For example, why won't PDF Expert or Goodreader include vertical scrolling and why doesn't iAnnotate offer fullscreen viewing or better/consistent scroll lock.
Apps with vertical scrolling:
1. iAnnotate
+Cloud services syncing
+Continuous Vertical Scrolling
- No zoom while locked (ala good reader)
- Zoom/orientation messes up when you rotate device
- annoying tabs on sides of page
- Date and Time show
2. Safari
3. Adobe Reader
-no Dropbox
-no scroll lock
4. PDFMate
5. Foxit PDF reader
6. Bookend (although I could not open any pdf in this program)
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