Hey everyone, I'm looking for a fast PDF reader - the experience equivalent to browsing through photos on the iPad or the native PDF reader on the iPad. I can't open them through e-mail since they're around 40mbs each. I've bought GoodReader but zooming and changing pages is slow and sluggish. Are there any apps where I can upload PDFs through iTunes and view them smoothly? Thanks.
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Fast PDF reader
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i looked up a new york subway map through safari on the ipad. It was a pdf that loaded. it could barely handle it. Every gesture i did (scroll, zoom) took about 5 seconds to execute, in addition to at least a 10 second delay. not good enough.
Cloud readers is fast, extremely fast and goes back pages fast too. Oh and its free, also reads zip,rar,cbr, and cbz.
How many pdfs readers have you used, there many people that stick with one and they dont try them all so they dont know what fast is.
Doesn't really matter, it's fast enough for me. It takes less than a second to change pages, how fast does it need to be?
I'm not going to pay for a bunch of other readers just to time them
If Goodreader became faster I wouldn't complain,but I would hardly call it 'slow'.
Doesn't really matter, it's fast enough for me. It takes less than a second to change pages, how fast does it need to be?
I'm not going to pay for a bunch of other readers just to time them
but I would hardly call it 'slow'.
Ilike good reader not for the PDF handling but for the other features, cloud readers is faster and by the way free.
Depends on the PDF. 100MB of text, Goodreader won't have any problem.
Throw in a copy of Paizo's PDF of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, ~90MB and 577 pages that are graphics heavy.....usually takes 12-14 seconds to load the book if it goes to the front cover. Page to page is about 3 seconds if just text, 6 if even a small graphic, and almost 10 if it's one of the chapter pages that's about half graphic.
Not trying to say Goodreader is bad, not at all....but that can get pretty dang annoying, especially when it is just one file. But I echo the OP's query for something that can really give that fast scrolling performance.
Wow, it doesn't bug me It takes time to load because it's loading the pages, but then waiting 3 seconds for every page makes it not usable.
Yeah I wouldn't be happy about that either. It may be that it's having problems with certain kinds of PDFs?
I love goodreader but because of it's other features, I always found it's name strange, it's so much more than that. It's actually a file system for the iPad. Much more complex than a reader.
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I wish other programs could access the docs stored in GoodReader. The file system and up/download is excellent. KeyNotes/Numbers/Pages should use same technique instead of iTunes.
+1. Personally I like the UI for AirSharing but l also like GoodReader's integration to download from dropbox. It would be nice if I can use AriSharing to read docs in GoodReader
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Even allows for uploading through Wi-fi. much faster than GoodReader and smoother too. pooryou, I'm glad you're satsified with GoodReader but I think you'll notice a difference.