Adobe Releases Adobe Reader for Apple’s iOS

Adobe, the soft maker has release the Adobe Reader for iOS this week. While iOS has supported Portable Document Format for some time, there has been no official app from the king of the PDF, Adobe. Prior to this release, as you would expect, the app provides support for the opening of PDF files that have been created on other platform, including those that have been password-protected, and PDF portfolios. It was possible to read PDFs on your iPhone or iPad using tools like iBooks, but this gives you the ability to open .pdf files in Adobe Reader in any email or application that supports 'Open in..." functionality. And it also enables you to do some things you couldn't do for the most part with other PDF-reader tools.

Lengthy files can be easily navigated using bookmarks and text searching, and a thumbnail preview section at the bottom of the app makes it easy to jump to a specific page without having to scroll through a document in its entirety. It’s good to see that the iPhone and iPad versions of the app are, apart from the differences in screen size, indistinguishable from each other. One of the advantages of using this tool over iBooks or another reader tool is the ability to read sticky notes left by other users, as well as the ability to copy and paste text from the PDF document (although this is possible with other iOS PDF-reading tools, too).

The files can be shared means that security is now of the utmost importance, and anyone creating sensitive PDFs will be pleased to find that there is support for 256 AES encryption and password protection. When it comes to working with your files, PDF can be printed out using AirPrint or shared with others by emailing from within the app.