We're constantly working on improving GoodReader. Here you will find the list of new features in GoodReader's updates.
new in version 3.8.1
- File Tabs - switch between recently viewed files without going back to the file list view. You can turn file tabs off in app settings, if you think that they occupy too much precious screen space.
- Delete local files option for “download-only” sync gets rid of outdated files that are gone from a server
Other improvements:
- “Free 5GB SugarSync Account” button in the SugarSync connection parameters window lets you create a free new account in case if you haven't got one
- PDF's Freehand drawing mode now lets you change color, thickness and opacity while drawing (in landscape mode only)
- redesigned PDF Page Slider (now it also includes Page Up and Down buttons)
- PDF password for a file is now memorized for as long as you keep a file on the file tab panel and don't leave the app.
- files can now be starred and unstarred in the Find Files window
new in version 3.7.1
- fully redesigned popup menus for PDF Annotations - many actions can now be performed with less taps
- “Unflattening” of flattened PDF files. This option is disabled by default, you have to explicitly enable it in settings. If you enable it, all PDF files that you flatten can later be unflattened by your recipients, so all flattened annotations would become editable again. Unflattening can only be done in GoodReader app, and it only applies to files previously flattened by another copy of GoodReader with unflattening option explicitly enabled on a device that was used for flattening. Any editing of a flattened file makes flattening final and further unflattening impossible.
- better handling of audio remote controls (play/pause button on a headset and soft buttons on multitasking bar, iOS 4.0 or later)
new in version 3.6.1
- Data Protection. Now GoodReader takes advantage of iOS's ability to encrypt individual files to make sure your data is secure even if your device gets lost or stolen. ATTENTION!!! Special procedures need to be performed (and also some limitations apply). Be ABSOLUTELY sure to read the “How-To” manual on Data Protection, if you want to use this feature.
- Flatten PDF annotations. Now you can flatten your PDF files to embed annotations into the main PDF page body. This will make them visible in all PDF-capable apps (including Mail and Safari), regardless of those apps' inability to display PDF annotations. This also makes your annotations non-editable, which may be useful if you want to prevent your notes and drawings from being altered by someone else. “Flatten” option is also available when sending files from GoodReader via EMail or via “Open In...” menu. GoodReader does the “smart flattening” - it preserves all existing PDF hyperlinks, while flattening notes and drawings.
- symbolic PDF page labels are now supported. Use symbolic labels (i, ii, iii, etc.) to go to a page. This also addresses the issue when logical page 1 in a PDF document doesn't correspond to physical page 1.
- PDF Annotations: improved compatibility of Typewriter notes and text boxes with Mac's Preview app and Google Docs online viewer. All advanced properties (callouts, cloudy border, etc.) created in GoodReader should now be visible in those apps
- video files can now be played via AirPlay (iOS 4.3 or later)
- fixed the issue when only one audio track was played in the background
- improved connection to certain Microsoft IIS / Sharepoint WebDAV servers
- improved handling of untrusted server certificates when connecting to secure WebDAV, IMAP and POP3 servers
- faster syncing of large amount of small files with some secure servers (iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync, etc.)
- faster SFTP downloads
- more stable SugarSync connection
new in version 3.5.1
- accessing SFTP servers + SFTP Sync
- new type of sync - "Download only" sync. This type of sync doesn't care what happens with your local files, it never puts anything on a server, never deletes anything from it, it only looks for fresh remote files and downloads them. Great for centralized document distribution to a group of people, when documents are frequently updated.
- PDF Annotations: font size can now be changed for text boxes and Typewriter tool
Other improvements:
- PDF Annotations: Typewriter tool now respects page rotation
- more stable Dropbox connection
- Sync feature now creates a new synchronized local folder right away. This addresses the issue when previously you had to re-download entire folder from the beginning in case if connection breaks during an initial downloading when setting up sync for a large folder. Now you can simply resume from where it failed.
- Sync feature now attaches an existing local folder with existing files to a new sync record instead of creating a new empty folder. This addresses the issue when previously you had to upload a large collection of local files to a server, just to download them again to set up sync for this collection. Now you can create an empty folder with the same name on a server, and sync it to an existing local folder with existing local files.
- new sync conflict action - "Discard this conflict, files are identical". This action allows to avoid unnecessary transfer if there is a formal sync conflict, but you know for sure that files are identical. Also useful for initial syncing of already existing identical files.
new in version 3.4.1
PDF Annotations:
- Annotations Summary is now available - you can browse a file's annotations list, EMail it or print it via AirPrint
- Typewriter tool with optional callouts is now available - print your notes directly on a page, point your callouts to wherever needed
- Typewriter notes (text boxes) can be enhanced with any fill color and border, including "cloudy"
- Squiggly underlines can now be used to markup text
- Author field can now be set in app settings, to tag your own annotations in a summary list
Other improvements:
- PDF and TXT bookmark names can now be edited
- Smart File Rename now hides filename extension during renaming, while still allowing to change it if necessary
new in version 3.3.1
Synchronization with remote servers:
- sync with iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync and any WebDAV or FTP server
- entire folders as well as individual files can be synced separately
- you can set up many different files/folders to be synced with different servers. Later you can either sync them individually, or sync them all at once by pressing just one button.
Various sync parameters can be adjusted:
- file/folder deletion can be prohibited separately for local and remote files
- a choice of options is available for sync conflicts - "Ask what to do", "Leave unresolved", "Local files have priority", "Remote files have priority", "Create duplicates"
Downloading-related improvements:
- SugarSync support
- web browser can now be locked with a password
- entire folders can now be downloaded from remote servers, no need to download files one-by-one now
- several files and folders can now be downloaded from remote servers at once - select what you need to download and press the "Download" button
- files and folders downloaded from remote servers can now be saved to any folder, not only to "My Documents"
- files and folders can now be uploaded to servers with Overwrite option, no need to delete old ones before uploading
- downloading of files is now continued on the background for several minutes
Other improvements:
- file lists can now be sorted by name, size and date, both ascending and descending orders are available
- PDF files: faster text search in large files - for some files it's now twice as fast as it used to be
- PDF Annotations: squares, circles and polygons can now be converted into "cloudy" shapes and back
- PDF Crop Margins feature now offers the "Crop to current view" button: zoom in and pan to whatever you'd like to see on the screen after the cropping, and this button will crop out the rest, making the cropped page's aspect ratio match the screen's one
- PDF: "Fit to width" preference can now be set separately for portrait and landscape modes
- other minor improvements and bug fixes
new in version 3.2.3
- fixed the issue with a crash when using Japanese keyboard and entering a password
new in version 3.2.1
- new PDF displaying engine - zooming/panning is a lot smoother now. However, if for some reason the new engine doesn't work for you, you can always switch back to the original engine with the switch in Settings.
- Higher quality images switch in Settings for PDF files. This switch produces higher quality scanned images, but impacts rendering performance noticeably. So try this switch to see which option suits your needs better.
- wireless printing: AirPrint support (iOS 4.2 or later)
- actions available without closing a file - "Open In...", E-Mail, Print
- Repair a PDF File feature. Some damaged files that previously caused GoodReader to display an "Unknown PDF Error" message (and could not be annotated for that matter), can now be automatically repaired.
- support for 256-bit AES encryption in PDF files (iOS 4.2 or later)
- PDF Night Mode brightness slider is now available directly in a viewer, no need to adjust it in Settings any more
- PDF Annotations: adjustable line thickness for drawings
- PDF Annotations: adjustable opacity for drawings
- Redo button in freehand drawing mode
- freehand drawing tool now allows to zoom and pan a page with two fingers, useful for long handwritten notes that do not fit on one screen
- freehand drawing mode now recognizes single taps as dots - no more circles when drawing the "i" letter
- freehand drawing tool now works much faster on pages containing a large number of annotations
- images can now be deleted without closing the image viewer
- fixed the issue with accessing some WebDAV servers based on Microsoft IIS engine
- fixed the issue when annotations created in GoodReader were missing when printing files later from a computer (you'll need to somehow modify old annotations to fix them, any modification - placement, color, etc. - will make them "printable")
- accented European characters are now stored correctly in PDF notes (old damaged characters won't be fixed automatically, so you'll need to manually re-enter those characters in old notes)
- menus for annotating PDFs can now be accessed when VGA adapter is connected
- fixed various multitasking-related bugs (files being unexpectedly closed when getting back from the background, etc.)
new in version 3.0.3
- now encrypted PDF files can also be annotated
new in version 3.0.1
Major update introducing major new feature - PDF Annotations, including notes, highlights, markups and drawings (iOS 4.0 or later):
- all annotations that you create or edit in GoodReader - notes, highlights, markups, and drawings - are saved in a PDF file, so you will be able to see them later on a computer or in another copy of GoodReader on your colleague's device
- all notes, highlights, markups, and drawings created outside GoodReader, and properly stored in a PDF file, can be viewed or edited in GoodReader
- types of annotations that you can create and edit in GoodReader: comments ("sticky notes") with 7 different icons, text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, text underlines, text deletion marks (strikeouts), text insertion marks, text replacement marks. You can freely adjust color of all of the above.
- other types of annotations that you can view in GoodReader: text boxes with callouts, polygons and polylines, "squiggly" underlines, "cloudy" shapes, rubber stamps, file attachments. All annotations that can be viewed, can also be deleted. In addition, some of them can be edited in a limited fashion (color, placement, scale).
- you can now extract files from PDF file attachments
- two main gestures that you should use to work with annotations - single tap, and tap & hold. Depending on where you tap (on a text, on an existing annotation, or on a free space on a page), different menus will be presented to you.
Other important improvements and new features:
- now you can select text directly on a PDF page. Tap on a text and hold your finger for a while. You can then copy it to the clipboard, or create markups for it (highlights, underlines, strikeouts, etc.)
- certain not very large files were known to consistently crash GoodReader (as well as other PDF reader apps) for no apparent reason. This was the issue with iOS 3.x. We have resolved this issue. It shouldn't be a problem now, even if you're still on iOS 3.x.
- now we can hide PDF watermarks (adjustable option in settings)
- certain button images in place of PDF links that were not shown before, are now shown correctly
And some other nice things:
- you can now choose which minimum zoom ratio you prefer for PDF pages - fit to screen or fit to width (an option in settings)
- we have lifted the limitation for a size of files being extracted from PDF Portfolios. Now we're able to extract files of any size. Just make sure that you have enough of free disk space!
- now when you copy a file to the same location as the original, a copy is created. Very handy if you want to annotate a PDF file, but also want to leave the original file unchanged.
- a workaround for the issue when WiFi was conflicting with Bluetooth (slow WiFi connection, occasional WiFi signal drops when Bluetooth switch is on, etc.) was finally found. Now there should be no conflict between WiFi and Bluetooth when working in GoodReader.
new in version 2.8.5
- simplified Copy File and Move File operations - now done in one step
- simplified process of uploading files and folders to servers - now done in one step
new in version 2.8.2
- iOS 4 and iPhone 4 compatibility fix
- USB file transfer
- crop margins for PDF files. Don't let those annoying page margins occupy precious screen space! You can set different crops for odd and even pages.
- added support for inter-app Document Interchange: other apps (including stock Mail app) can open their files in GoodReader; GoodReader can open its files in other apps that support Document Interchange (iOS 4)
- horizontal/vertical swiping of PDF pages (switch in Settings)
- pre-caching of PDF pages for better page turning feel (needs to be enabled in Settings)
- support for compatible video out adapters (iOS 4)
- importing of recorded videos from Photo Roll (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4)
new in version 2.7
Starting from this update we stop supporting iPhone OS 2.x, because the usage of features specific to iPhone OS 3.x became substantial.
- server-style access to Dropbox with the ability to download and upload files
- fixed the issue with some images from Photo Album being shown distorted and rotated
- minor improvements and bug fixes
new in version 2.6
- Text Edit - edit small and medium TXT files
- Page Slider for PDF files - whisk across big files with a single gesture
- importing/exporting pictures from device Photo Album
- added Encoding option to FTP servers, now FTP servers with non-ASCII file names can be accessed
- support for .ai files saved with PDF Compatible option
- fixed the issue with incorrect downloading of spreadsheets from Google Docs and MobileMe iDisk
- various bug fixes for e-mail attachments downloading
new in version 2.5.1
new in version 2.5
- direct access to E-Mail servers via IMAP or POP3 protocol. Pre-configured popular mail servers.
- server-style access to Google Docs with support for latest Google's feature of downloading unmodified files of any type
- access to FTP servers. Only plain FTP is currently supported, no security additions. FTPS and SFTP protocols are NOT supported.
- unread files are now shown in blue color
- files and folders can now be visually marked with a star
- Find Files by file name, most recently read, most recently added, starred
- protect individual files and folders with password
- text encoding is individually memorized now for each TXT file
- if system clipboard contains a text, you can create a TXT file with this text for further reading in GoodReader (useful for comfortable offline reading of pure text copied from some other app - Safari, for example)
- PDF Portfolio support (some limitations apply)
- integration with Appigo Todo app
- many improvements regarding PDF Reflow text extraction
- many minor improvements and bug fixes
new in version 2.4
- Zip / Unzip features added to Actions menu
- changing pictures by swipe gesture
- box.net added to pre-configured servers
- added support for .pps and .ppsx files
- many other minor improvements and bug fixes
new in version 2.3
- PDF Reflow (Extract Pure Text) - a feature that sets a new standard for mobile PDF reading. Extract pure text from PDF on-the-fly and read it without left/right scrolling and with the font name and size of your choice. No need for desktop computer to pre-convert your PDFs, reflowing is done in GoodReader on-the-fly, and you can easily switch back and forth between the original graphical page and the extracted text.
- considerable improvements of Find for .PDF files feature
- PDF page turning by swipe gesture
- access to MobileMe iDisk and other WebDAV servers on the Web
- access to local WebDAV servers via WiFi - connect directly to any other file management and sharing application on another iPhone using WebDAV protocol
- E-mail files from GoodReader (iPhone OS 3.0 required)
- PDF Links - now you can tap links in PDF files to quickly jump to a page, to open another document, or even to visit linked web-site
- PDF - Go Back button is introduced. If you accidentally jumped to a wrong page or tapped a wrong link or bookmark, just go back to the previous page with a button click.
- TXT autoscroll feature with the speed adjustable on-the-fly (iPhone OS 3.0 highly recommended for this feature)
- PDF and TXT files - customizable day/night mode
- PDF page - copy text from entire page to clipboard (done from Reflow mode, iPhone OS 3.0 required)
- greatly increased the speed of uploading files via WiFi using web-browsers
- support for RTF files
- TXT files - new settings to customize TXT viewing process to your own preferences
- PDF and picture files - quickly tap with two fingers to zoom out
- audio files - auto-continue, repeat, shuffle, memorizing of previous position in a song (these new features work with iPhone OS 2.2 or later)
- easy integration with other apps (todo apps like Todo or OmniFocus, notebook apps, etc.) - select a file in Actions mode, use Link command to copy a special URL to clipboard (iPhone OS 3.0 required) and then paste this URL link to another application that supports URL links. When you will tap this link in that other app, GoodReader will be automatically launched and the file being linked will be opened.
- new buttons that make browsing for files to download much easier
- HTML viewing - if you have links to local files in your HTMLs, they will be opened using GoodReader's dedicated viewers
- PDF Bookmarks button now moved to a magnifying glass pop-up action menu due to limited space
- now you can clear all history records for Find strings and web-browser addresses
- PDF Bookmarks (Outlines, Table Of Contents, etc.) window now remembers where you've been in bookmarks hierarchy and opens the same Bookmarks page
- phone numbers and other link types can now be detected in MS Office files
- many new convenient options in Settings
- many other improvements
new in version 2.2
- fixed iPhone OS 3.0 compatibility issues
- faster PDF page switching
- now there's a 50x zoom limit for PDF files, instead of the old 2.5x
- greatly improved stability of PDF-viewing engine, now it's even more crash-safe than before, PDF pages of really huge sizes can now be opened safely
- Introducing Find Text for .PDF files feature. Find, Find Next and Find Previous (backward search) buttons. Last 20 search strings are remembered.
- Introducing File Management features - create folders, rename, copy and move files and folders while being offline (previously all this could be done only by connecting your iPhone as a network folder to your computer via WiFi)
- Introducing Web Download feature - now you're not limited to transferring files via WiFi only. Now you can download files from Internet either by entering a file's URL, or by browsing the Web using a simple built-in browser.
- added URL schemes ghttp:// and ghttps:// for storing files and web-pages directly from Safari (see How-Tos section for details)
- iWork'08 files can now be opened without zipping them (file must be saved with Include Preview option)
- iWork'09 files support (only with iPhone OS 3.0, files must be saved with Include Preview option)
- now you're asked to choose a viewing engine for unrecognized file formats, which solves an issue with Mac OS allowing to have, for example, PDF file without .pdf file extension, which leads to GoodReader's inability to automatically pick the right viewing engine for such file
- now you can tap in the middle of the navigation bar (right below the clock) while browsing folders, to see the stack of all enclosing folders and to quickly jump to those folders
- font that shows file names while browsing folders now adopts to let you see long file names
- tapping on the floating badge with a PDF page number works as GoTo PDF Page
- fixed a bug preventing embedded PDF Bookmarks from appearing for a certain kind of PDF-files
- other minor bug fixes
new in version 2.1
- Introducing Find Text for .TXT files feature. Find, Find Next and Find Previous (backward search) buttons. Last 20 search strings are remembered.
- optional password check at GoodReader's start-up
- option to turn PDF's turn page popup buttons on/off
- option to disable device auto-lock while reading
- graphic files of even bigger dimensions can now be opened
- fixed a bug causing PDF screen freeze under certain rare conditions
- fixed a bug preventing certain HTML pages from opening
- other important bug fixes
new in version 2.0
- Brand new PDF viewing engine. Viewing is much more crash-safe now. Even bigger PDF files than before can now be opened. Much less screen-freezing
during scrolling. Much faster opening times on large files. Many files that were causing application crashes in previous versions can be opened
safely now. Many thanks to our customers who sent us their problematic files for testing.
- Zoom ratio for PDFs can be much higher in this version. Previous maximum was 1.5x, now it's 2.5x, which is more than enough for even
the smallest text.
- Introducing Tap Zones for PDF viewing. In addition to our innovative Horizontal Scroll Lock feature, we introduce
7 tap zones of the screen. Different tap zones invoke different scrolling moves. With a single tap you can scroll to the right several times to read
very long line of text, and when the end of page is reached, the same tap rewinds you back to the left margin of the page, so you can continue to read
the next line. And when you've read all lines that fit vertically on the screen, tapping another tap zone in addition to rewinding to the left of
the page, also pages one screen down. So you can read some lengthy text without ever moving your fingers to drag a page, just using single taps. See
Viewing PDF-files section for details.
- Introducing Bookmarks feature for PDF and TXT files. You can use two types of bookmarks for PDF files - your own bookmarks and the ones extracted
from PDF file.
- Now you can upload files and create directories directly from your web-browser. If your files are not too big and there's not too many
of them, you can do all your transfers inside your favourite web-browser, without ever needing to configure anything. However, if your files are large,
or there are too many of them, so you'd prefer to copy the entire folder, or you want to do some renaming / deleting, we encourage you to use the old
way - by connecting your iPhone / iPod touch as a network folder.
- Horizontal Scroll Lock state is now remembered for each file separately.
- WiFi-transfer confirmation dialog is now turned off by default (you can turn it back on in Settings).
- option to manually rotate screen 3 ways instead of 2 ways can be turned on/off
- PDF Caching switch in Settings is no longer needed
- fixed a bug causing menu to completely disappear after certain scrolling sequence
- fixed a bug causing slide show to crash if certain files opening time was too long
- minor bug fixes
new in version 1.1
- option to turn autorotation on/off
- option to turn restoring screen orientation at startup on/off
- option to turn reopening last viewed file at startup on/off
- fixed a bug causing occasional application crashes when viewing very large graphical PDF pages (scanned pages, for example)
- fixed a bug causing incorrect display of very large picture files