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PDF on the iPad – iAnnotate Review – Annotations! no comments
Probably the most well known app for reading PDF documents on the iPad is 
GoodReader which does work quite well. The problem with GoodReader is that if you need to make notes or annotations you are pretty much SOL.
Enter iAnnotate. This app is from Aji and lets you bookmark and make text notes as well as supporting markup annotations such as highlighting, underlining and strikeouts. Freeform drawing is also supported – and you can choose multiple colors for all of these functions to use.
This is probably one app that could benefit from the use of a stylus that will work with the iPad rather than resorting to finger painting when precision drawing is called for.
iAnnotate uses toolbars for the various annotation and navigation functions. You can customize each toolbar by adding and removing individual tools and moving the toolbars to different positions on the screen. The size and opacity of the toolbars can also be adjusted.
Documents that you have loaded into iAnnotate are displayed as tabs at the top of the screen which allows you to switch between them quickly. Page locations are remembered when you switch between documents. You also can perform searches in your document and search through your annotations. All of the standard iPad gestures are supported so that pan and zoom, etc. work well.
Search functions allow you to search through your entire PDF library.
Getting Your Documents Into iAnnotate
You will need to download and install the Aji PDF Service for either your Mac or PC so that your iPad can connect to and retrieve PDF documents from your desktop. The Aji PDF Service not only is used to transfer documents but also processes and extracts the metadata of your PDF docs, so while you can transfer files from other iPad apps such as Goodreader you probably won’t be able to use the annotating tools if you do so. The documentation indicates that it may be possible to bypass the Aji Service in the future, but at any rate it is a free download and worked fine for me.
Sharing Your Annotated Documents
Your annotated documents can be shared using standard PDF annotations and can be viewed in a standard PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader. There are plans to allow email of annotated documents and text-only annotation summaries in future updates. At the moment you can upload your annotated documents to your computer via Aji Reader Service.
The iAnnotate app gives you lots of tools to work with in lots of colors. Currently you can purchase the iAnnotate app for $6.99 from iTunes, but Aji says that the price will go up to $9.99 when version 1.1 update is released, which will probably be in the next week or two (it has already been submitted to Apple for review). Version 1.1 will include iTunes/USB transfer, Web downloads, ability to attach annotated PDFs to emails, brightness control slider and other fixes.
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