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At the Print and ePublishing Conference, I demoed Alice for the iPad from Atomic Antelope.

That said, the results can be phenomenal. In fact, you’re not so much publishing a document as designing, implementing, and distributing a piece of software. This is not currently a task for the faint of heart or the small of wallet. The second way to get non-linear layouts onto an iPad is to build an iApp - that is, someone needs to actually develop/code it and then submit it to the Apple iTunes store to be accepted (you hope). However, the limitations I noted above severely restrict the kinds of PDFs you can view.

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In my mind, PDF is the most logical choice for publishing on the iPad, and documents look beautiful laid out on the iPad display.

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The PDF is copied over immediately, without syncing. (Thanks to Jeff Carlson for pointing out that GoodReader can also display other file formats, including movies! So sometimes the fastest way to get a movie onto your iPad is to drag it into GoodReader/iTunes and play it from there.)

The easiest way, however, is to select GoodReader icon in iTunes (in the Applications tab, when your iPad is plugged in) and drag the PDF into iTunes. That said, one of many cool things about GoodReader is that you can copy PDFs to it in many ways, including via dropbox. I’m hoping that we will see a true Adobe PDF reader on the iPad soon (though given the restrictions on the iPad, I’m not holding my breath).

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As one Adobe employee told me, “Even if we do make Reader for the iPad, there’s no guarantee that Apple will approve it in the iTunes store.” There is, however, Acrobat for Android - so at least Adobe is working on mobile versions of their product. So what’s to do? There is currently no Acrobat Reader for the iPad.

You can’t use any PDFs with DRM, videos, audio, Flash, or pretty much anything else interesting.

(In fact, in the PDF shown above I had to re-optimize Adobe’s PDF in Acrobat Pro in order to get several images to show up.) If you force Acrobat (or InDesign) to use JPEG instead of JPEG2000, they usually re-appear. This is probably due to the images being encoded by Acrobat in the JPEG2000 format. You can make page-anchor hyperlinks on every page, but it’s very tedious. That means navigation buttons (very common in interactive PDF files) must be replaced with hyperlinks (which do work).

Buttons created with InDesign don’t appear at all.

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That’s why InDesign Magazine (and many other online pdf mags) say “Don’t use Mac OS Preview! Use Acrobat!”įor example, the built-in PDF reader (and GoodReader and other apps that rely on the iPhone OS to display) has a number of limitations: I don’t know all the technical details, but I do know this: It’s a good PDF reader, but not a great PDF reader - not nearly as robust as the Acrobat Reader. (You can, of course, make the navigation elements go away with a tap.)īut however you view the PDF, there’s a bigger problem to deal with: the PDF reader in the iPhone OS. Here’s an example of Adobe’s 10th anniversary book (by Pam Pfiffner) rendered in GoodReader. A better way to view PDF files is a PDF-reader app, and the best I’ve found so far is the surprisingly inexpensive GoodReader. Unfortunately, the PDF isn’t stored locally, so it takes a long time to open each time you click on it. The iPhone/iPad OS has a PDF reader built into it - probably the same as Mac OS Quartz - that’s why you can open a PDF inside of Mail or Safari. That leaves us with three options: PDF, iApp, and a Content Delivery App. These documents tend to demand a greater sense of page design. We need to be able to publish other kinds of documents on the iPad, too, including photo essays, magazines, catalogs, manga/comics, newspapers, and more. But those formats are best for text-heavy documents with a linear flow, such as novels. In Part 1 of this article, I reviewed the options for publishing on an iPad, focusing on the ePub and Kindle formats.