How does Goodreader with PDFs look with new Ipad?

[laurenr]

Just tried

PDF on good reader looks like iPad/iPad2 - pixelated. Word documents and plain text documents looks very nice though. I hope it gets updated soon, I read PDF files on it a lot.

My experience is the same. PDF's are pixelated, other documents, such as Word or RTF's, are super-crisp.

 

[elle775]

not to completely go off topic here but does anyone know of any apps that you can mark up a power point document? I tried using goodreader and while it opened it, I couldn't add any of my own notes.

 

[shyam09]

Just an update:
On the itunes.apple page for Goodreader there is a special note under what's new!

Got iPad 3? Retina-optimized update is already in Apple's review!

 

[RealSkyDiver]

PDFs are horrible on iPad 3 in Goodreader - however, the same ones look great in the Dropbox app, so I'll just be using that for the time being.

Really? Cause my dropbox takes full advantage of retina. Pdf and exel files.

 

[dread]

Just an update:
On the itunes.apple page for Goodreader there is a special note under what's new!

Got iPad 3? Retina-optimized update is already in Apple's review!

I can't wait. Goodreader is the best at updating

 

[redman042]

Just an update:
On the itunes.apple page for Goodreader there is a special note under what's new!

Got iPad 3? Retina-optimized update is already in Apple's review!

Terrific! So glad they jumped right on it.

 

[Justin Luck]

What makes reading PDFs better with Goodreader compared to iBooks?

 

[number84]

Just compared PDF scans in GoodReader and iBooks. Looks so much nicer in iBooks. Can't wait for GoodReader to update!

For the above poster being able to sync my PDF files with Dropbox is the main reason I use GoodReader over iBooks.

 

[unobtainium]

Ack. Just tried looking at some old scanned PDFs in goodreader on my new iPad. They look much, much worse than on the iPad 2. I'm not sure why, but they are incredibly pixelated and hard to read now. Of course I wouldn't expect the retina display to make scanned PDFs look any better, but why would they look worse?

 

[miamialley]

Just an update:
On the itunes.apple page for Goodreader there is a special note under what's new!

Got iPad 3? Retina-optimized update is already in Apple's review!

Oh awesome. It better fix the PDFs or I will have to use iAnnotate.

 

[dgdosen]

PDFs are horrible on iPad 3 in Goodreader - however, the same ones look great in the Dropbox app, so I'll just be using that for the time being.

That works awesomely! I didn't even know Dropbox could do that. Somehow, I think they're using some default rendering.

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Just an update:
On the itunes.apple page for Goodreader there is a special note under what's new!

Got iPad 3? Retina-optimized update is already in Apple's review!

That's great - but now I've been using iBooks - and bookmarks and last page are synced between my iPad and iPhone - that's kind of nice...

 

[paulbee]

Pdf expert isn't updated yet, I don't think, but the pdfs and text still look amazing. I think they using the default renderer

I'll second this. PDF Expert is clearly not updated (you can tell from the UI), but PDF rendering is great. Great on both text-based and scanned PDFs, in fact -- I have some 300 dpi scanned PDFs that look as good as on paper.

So they seem to be using the native rendering engine for most of the PDF display. Only weirdness is the zoom when you're selecting/moving the cursor through text--they seem to be using their own display, rather than the native, there, and the text looks markedly pixelated. But overall, if you don't care about the UI, PDF Expert provides a solid retina reading experience for the moment.

 

[DS3]

So can non retina apps show some things in retina quality other than text then? PDFs looked the same, but I could swear the JPGs I have loaded into goodreader look retina.

 

[DarthElevator]

Goodreader update today makes PDFs look fantastic on the Ipad 3. I've been looking forward to this for a week, since they said the update was in to Apple for review. Worth the wait.

 

[tekchic]

Goodreader update today makes PDFs look fantastic on the Ipad 3. I've been looking forward to this for a week, since they said the update was in to Apple for review. Worth the wait.

+1. I've been checking for updates several times a day since launch waiting for this update. Now I don't have to open my magazine collection in iBooks, I can stay in GoodReader for all my PDF mags.

 

[xraydoc]

Goodreader update today makes PDFs look fantastic on the Ipad 3. I've been looking forward to this for a week, since they said the update was in to Apple for review. Worth the wait.

GoodReader is the best few bucks you can spend for your iPad. Now even moreso.

 

[DS3]

Yup they look great with the update and load up in high res without starting out blurred like some apps.

 

[rgarjr]

Goodreader FTW

 

[number84]

sweet. was waiting for this. this is one of my most used apps.

 

[tugger]

scrolling

I don't own GoodReader but would appreciate it if someone who does could help me out with a couple of questions:

1. When scrolling through long docs, how's the performance? Any lag in page updating.

2. If there's a "tile view" in GoodReader, how's the performance in displaying the page tiles?

Thanks.

 

[erawsd]

Holy crap, my pdfs look amazing! It does look like they forgot to update the app icon though, its still a little pixelated lol

 

[tekm]

Holy crap, my pdfs look amazing! It does look like they forgot to update the app icon though, its still a little pixelated lol

You have to reboot and then you get a shiny new retina icon.

 

[dgdosen]

I don't own GoodReader but would appreciate it if someone who does could help me out with a couple of questions:

1. When scrolling through long docs, how's the performance? Any lag in page updating.

2. If there's a "tile view" in GoodReader, how's the performance in displaying the page tiles?

Thanks.

IMO,

GoodReader is better and faster for scrolling through PDFs than iBooks. There's caching of pages if you want, so page rendering is pretty fast.

There's no tile view, like iBooks, but there is a real table of contents - which is better than an tile view in my opinion.

The best reason to user Goodreader, IMO, is the fixed cropping feature. You can keep pages zoomed in to the same region on every page - which means you can fill the display with readable content of a PDF and chop off the border.


The only knock I have for Goodreader, is that it doesn't sync bookmarks and annotations across devices.