The iPhone version of GoodReader has just been updated to include the newest features added to the iPad version earlier this month. The newest version includes a new PDF displaying engine, offering a much smoother experience when zooming/panning a file, plus AirPrint support for wireless printing. GoodReader now also offers more features for annotating files, including:

• Adjustable line thickness and opacity for drawings
• Redo button in freehand drawing mode
• Freehand drawing tool now allows users to zoom and pan a page with two fingers, useful for long handwritten notes that do not fit on one screen
• Freehand drawing tool now works much faster on pages containing a large number of annotations

GoodReader, developed by Good.iWare, has become such a huge success because of how it handles very large PDF and TXT files, navigating manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed compared to other document viewers. The recently added ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file.

For more information, visit www.goodreader.net/goodreader.html. GoodReader is available in the App Store for US$2.99.

GoodReader, often hailed as the “killer app” for iPad, has just added the feature which will make it even more so – the ability to annotate any PDF with text, freehand drawings, and several other styles. The annotation feature, now available for both iPad and iPhone versions of GoodReader, gives users the ability to mark-up and share PDFs, such as manuals, schematics, and meeting notes, with friends and co-workers. Another key new feature is the ability to select text on a PDF and copy it to the clipboard, making it possible to copy blocks of text from a PDF into a document editor or email message.

Annotation is a feature long sought after by users who want to add their own mark-ups to PDFs, especially those collaborating as a team on shared documents. The types of annotations that can be created and edited in GoodReader include comments (“sticky notes”) with seven different icons, text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, text underlines, and text deletion, insertion and replacement marks.

GoodReader, developed by Good.iWare, has become such a huge success because of how it handles very large PDF and TXT files, navigating manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed compared to other document viewers. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file. Best of all, each annotation is saved as part of a PDF file itself which can be emailed to colleagues and viewed on a desktop computer in any PDF reading program.

The new version of GoodReader also enables users to view or edit all notes, highlights, markups, and drawings created in other applications and properly stored in a PDF file. The types of annotations that you can view in GoodReader include text boxes with callouts, polygons and polylines, squiggly underlines, cloudy shapes, rubber stamps, and file attachments. Plus, all annotations that can be viewed can also be deleted.

The development team at Good.iWare worked diligently to ensure the PDF Annotations feature was there for users when they needed it, but out of their way when they do not. The team succeeded in making it as hidden as possible, while still providing the advanced annotating, markup and highlighting capabilities.

“Our aim with adding the PDF Annotations feature to GoodReader was to make it work as non-obtrusively as possible,” said Yuri Selukoff, president of Good.iWare. “With GoodReader, we offer you many ways to annotate your PDFs, but the interface is almost invisible – it’s only there when you need it and never gets in the way of users simply wanting to view their PDFs.”

The other main new feature added to GoodReader is the ability to copy and paste text from a PDF onto the clipboard. Users can simply tap on a text and press their finger on the text they want to highlight for a second, then copy it to the clipboard or create markups for it.

Since its release, the iPad version of GoodReader has achieved #1 in sales in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Spain and many others. The iPhone and iPad versions of GoodReader are still available for only $.99 in the iTunes App Store but will soon be increased to $2.99 due to the added functionality.

Good.iWare announces a breakthrough development which will bring back the extremely popular feature of transferring files via USB to its GoodReader document viewer for iPhone and iPad. Transferring files via USB was available up until a few months ago when app developers who offered USB support had to discontinue the feature because it was in conflict with the rules of Apple’s iPhone SDK. GoodReaderUSB, which is available to all Mac and Windows users, once again enables users to transfer files via USB – but without violating rules established by Apple.

GoodReaderUSB originally worked by transferring files to a special location on a user’s iPhone, which iPhone’s GoodReader app was able to access. However, accessing this location was a violation of Apple’s iPhone SDK Agreement, because the app had to access files outside its own private storage space, which is forbidden by Apple. This past November, Apple requested developers to remove this capability from their apps and, as a result, GoodReader lost one of its most popular features.

The development team at Good.iWare has been working hard to create a solution that would return this feature to its enormously successful GoodReader app, but without violating the rules of the iPhone SDK Agreement. With the update to GoodReaderUSB for Mac and Windows, it will now transfer files directly into the application’s private storage space (also known as the app’s “sandbox”) and, therefore, avoiding a violation of Apple’s rules.

GoodReaderUSB works similar to transferring files from iTunes to an iPad with its “File Sharing” feature, simply dragging a file with a mouse to the app’s sandbox. However, there are several key differences:

· Unlike with iTunes USB transfer, GoodReaderUSB enables users to browse all of the app’s subfolders.
· GoodReaderUSB users can transfer folders as well as files.
· GoodReaderUSB works with all eligible devices – iPhone, iPod touch, iPad – with all versions of the iPhone OS starting with 3.0. It also works with all versions of the GoodReader app, including GoodReader for iPad, GoodReader for iPhone, GoodReader Lite for iPhone.

This news will enable many GoodReader users, who depended on the USB transfer abilities, to finally upgrade to the latest versions of GoodReader and all of its newest capabilities without losing this important feature.

GoodReaderUSB is available as a free download for Windows and Mac desktops from www.goodreader.net/goodreader.html. GoodReader for iPhone and iPad currently retails for only $.99 in the iTunes App Store.

Good.iWare announces the availability of the new iPad version of its GoodReader application, bringing the most popular document viewer for iPhone to Apple’s new iPad. GoodReader is famous for handling very large PDF and TXT files, navigating manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed compared to other document viewers.

Besides its speedy text search capability, GoodReader’s active hyperlinks enable iPad users to more easily navigate within the document or launch a linked document or website. This feature makes GoodReader an even better choice for those who browse large technical documents.

GoodReader also simplifies reading large TXT documents with its Auto-scroll feature, which offers variable speed controls to make reading the document an easy hands-off operation.

GoodReader provides access to MobileMe iDisk, box.net, MyDisk.se, and many other file-storage servers for both downloading and uploading files. Like its iPhone counterpart, this version of GoodReader comes equipped with “server style” support for DropBox and Google Docs, providing users with the ability to both download documents from DropBox and Google Docs accounts, and upload them to like with an FTP program.

To better handle documents with lots of text, GoodReader offers “PDF Reflow” – one of the most desired features for PDF file readers. With GoodReader’s PDF Reflow, text is extracted from a PDF page (stripping out pictures) and displayed as a simple TXT file. GoodReader eliminates annoying page margins and offers word-wrapping and formatting features such as font size and text color.

About GoodReader
GoodReader is known as the top document reader for viewing and navigating large PDF documents on an iPhone. Besides its text search capability, other key GoodReader features are active hyperlinks, which enable users to more easily navigate within the document or launch a linked document or website, and PDF Reflow. These features make GoodReader an even better choice for those who browse large technical documents.

GoodReader for iPhone and iPad is available in Apple’s App Store (iTunes Store) for only US$.99.

Good.iWare has released a new version of its GoodReader file viewer for iPhone that includes “server-style” support for DropBox. Now users can upload files and even entire directories to Dropbox from GoodReader, and are also able to delete files just like they could with a normal file server, such as FTP.

The most recent version of GoodReader offered a web-browser connection to DropBox, which enabled users to browse DropBox accounts and download files into GoodReader, but did not enable users to reverse that process and upload files from GoodReader to DropBox.

GoodReader is known as the top document reader for viewing and navigating large PDF documents on an iPhone. Besides its text search capability, other key GoodReader features are active hyperlinks, which enable users to more easily navigate within the document or launch a linked document or website, and PDF Reflow, with which text is extracted from a PDF page (stripping out pictures) and displayed as a simple TXT file in its own viewing pane. These features make GoodReader an even better choice for those who browse large technical documents.

GoodReader is available in Apple’s App Store (iTunes Store) for only US$.99.

Good.iWare announces the launch of GoodReader Lite, a free version of its document viewer for iPhone and iPod Touch. GoodReader Lite is identical to the full version in the number of features, but limits the user to storing five files only at any given time.

As with the full version, GoodReader Lite excels at enabling iPhone and iPod Touch users to open and view very large PDF and TXT files. The app offers text search capabilities, plus active hyperlinks, enabling users to more easily navigate within the document or launch a linked document or website.

GoodReader Lite also simplifies reading large TXT documents with its Auto-scroll feature, which offers variable speed controls to make reading the document an easy hands-off operation. To make it easier to view large PDFs, GoodReader and GoodReader Lite both offer “PDF Reflow” – a long sought-after feature in which text is extracted from a PDF page (stripping out pictures) and displayed as a simple TXT file. While in PDF Reflow mode, both versions of GoodReader eliminate annoying page margins and offer word-wrapping and formatting features such as font size and text color.

File sharing and management are simplified with the ability to Zip / Unzip files, as well as standard file operations, such as copy, paste, rename and delete, providing a computer-like file management experience. GoodReader and GoodReader Lite both provide access to MobileMe iDisk, box.net, MyDisk.se, and many other file-storage servers for both downloading and uploading files.

GoodReader Lite is available as a free download from Apple’s App Store. The full version with unlimited document viewing is regularly priced at US$4.99, but is available for a limited time at only US$.99.

Good.iWare announces the launch of a major update to its GoodReader file viewer application for iPhone and iPod Touch, with new features that enable it to easily manage large PDF and TXT files. The new version is a major leap forward from the previous versions of GoodReader and other available file viewer applications in the App Store.

“While there are many file sharing and management applications in the App Store, there are not that many true ‘reader applications,’” says Yuri Selukoff, Good.iWare’s CEO. “Every little detail that we have put into the development of the new GoodReader was designed to create the best reading experience. The difference between this version and the previous one is so dramatic, that many people consider this update as an entirely new application.”

Good.iWare has created its own viewing engine for GoodReader, making it ideal for viewing:

* very large PDFs (fast opening, password protected files, revolutionary 50x zoom)
* very large TXT files (fast opening, no zooming or left/right scrolling required, user-selectable font and font-size, all text encodings known to iPhone OS)
* high-resolution pictures, with an included slideshow mode

GoodReader now offers a revolutionary 50x PDF zoom, while maintaining sharpness and contrast, delivering the best way to read large PDF maps or technical drawings on an iPhone.

Other PDF viewing features that distinguish GoodReader from other viewer apps include true full-screen reading (no bars or buttons over the text), manual/automatic screen rotation, horizontal scroll lock, direct Web downloading of files, and an innovative Tap Zones feature whereby all scrolling is accomplished by tapping in special zones. It also offers optional password protection on application launch to add a layer of security.

The new version also offers the ability to send files from a computer to the iPhone via USB, a feature many customers had requested which will enable them to simply connect the USB cable and start transferring files rather than dealing with WiFi configurations or additional hardware.

GoodReader also offers a host of features that make it easier to navigate large files, including PDF and TXT text search and bookmarking, a “GoTo Page” feature for PDFs, and fast navigation in large TXT files with a navigation slider.

GoodReader can be purchased in Apple’s App Store (iTunes Store) for US$4.99.

The name of the product says it all, and this week at Macworld we saw it in action. The Recosoft rep demoing the new InDesign plug-in admitted there are some flaws, but expected most of them to be smoothed out by the time it’s released in the 2nd quarter of this year. In short, this plug-in gives you a new menu item under “File” that allows you to open PDF files. It then takes you through a few dialogues of options and a few seconds later you’re editing an InDesign document. Vector graphics come in as vector graphics and fonts transfer over as long as they’re installed on the system. I forgot to ask if images come in linked or embedded, but I can only assume they come in as embedded. Hopefully there’s an option to extract the images as separate files, so you can edit them in Photoshop.

Regardless, this would be a huge time saver for many people using InDesign and we’re looking forward to testing it.