I don’t feel overwhelmed by PDF Expert’s editing UI and I like how the app can quickly switch from reading to editing with just a button (the pencil icon in the navigation bar at the top). Following Apple’s principles or clarity and focus on user content for iOS 7 apps, Readdle simplified the document viewer without sacrificing functionality: tap to go full-screen and hide the app’s interface, and tap to show the annotation toolbar, which can be dragged and dropped to be placed on the left, top, and right side of the screen.Įverything else works as the old PDF Expert – you can switch between open documents with tabs and there are popups for search, navigation, and sharing in the top bar. My favorite changes are in the editing and viewing experience of PDF Expert. PDF Expert tags are, essentially, colored labels that don’t do anything besides providing a visual cue (which perhaps can still be useful to someone). And worse, there’s no way to use tags as a sorting/grouping layer in PDF Expert itself: you can’t sort by tag, you can’t create shortcuts to tags like you can in the OS X Finder, and you can’t search documents by tag. My theory is that Readdle wanted to provide familiarity for OS X users by giving them the tools to tag documents in a way they’re accustomed to, but they have created an expectation for the feature to work consistently. However, these tags are PDF Expert-specific metadata that don’t sync back to OS X. Like Mavericks, you can assign a color tag to an item (tap Edit > select document > Color tag in the sidebar), choosing from a set of six colors. PDF Expert 5 has support for tags, but the feature feels incomplete and rushed. You can navigate through sub-folders and parent folders with drag & drop, and you can even quickly move items to iCloud or other connected services while holding your finger on the screen. Both documents and folders can be saved as favorites, and to do so you can rely on the app’s new drag & drop engine, which lets you tap & hold items to drop them into existing folders or create new ones (like apps on the iOS Home screen). In the sidebar, for instance, there’s a new Favorites area where you can drop items that you want to access often this is a feature that I wish Documents (another Readdle app) had when it came out, and it’s available now in PDF Expert. After three months of iOS 7 (more if you count the beta time in the summer), I obviously think that PDF Expert 5 looks good on the iPad and much better than the old PDF Expert.ĭesign aside, I’m a fan of the features that have been added to PDF Expert 5. This is a common theme throughout the app and it reflects Readdle’s previous work on Calendars 5 – the app works in the same way but pixels are more subdued and neutral. The interface is new, with flat solid colors and a lack of textures making for an app that feels modern and functional. You can still sync a Dropbox folder with the app (so changes that you’ll make in PDF Expert will propagate through Dropbox) and you can sort, search, or organize documents by uploading them or sending them to other iOS apps. The overall look and main screen of PDF Expert hasn’t changed: there’s a Documents area where you can see all your documents and folders and a sidebar that lists connected online services (such as Dropbox) and documents you’ve recently viewed. PDF Expert 5, a separate app sold at $9.99 on the App Store, brings a cleaner design for iOS 7 and, more importantly, new functionalities such as better document management, an improved sidebar and document viewer, Review mode, and more. Released today on the App Store, PDF Expert 5 is Readdle’s new version of the popular PDF Expert for iPad, a feature-rich PDF manager and reader that I’ve been using on my iPad for years.
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