This is the update everybody has been asking for. In the past 3 months since its release we have been blown away by the reactions we have received on Papers for iPad, but one thing was clear, you wanted the ability to highlight text passages and leave notes on the PDFs. And from today that’s exactly what you can do. It’s intuitive and simple and now makes reading an even better experience on the iPad.
Simply tap and drag to select a piece of text and tap highlight, that’s all there is to it. Highlighting can be very accurate thanks to the loupe that pops up while you drag and text selection is also column-aware. We also allow you to copy the text to the clipboard. In addition you can tap and hold anywhere on the page for a second and a sticky-note pops up to type away. After you’re done a red pin will indicate the location of the note.
But also for iPhone owners there’s exciting news, Papers is now full optimized for iOS4. It supports fast application switching, as well as the razor sharp retina display of the iPhone4. PDFs never looked this good, and even on the relatively small screen they’re a joy to read.
If you already own Papers for iOS this is a must-have update, now available from iTunes. And if you don’t, then it’s time to head over to the app store!
For more information see the Papers for iPad and Papers for iPhone web pages.
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Hi there! I like the update and it is nice to see a blog post again that is not related to awards or staff
Please share a little more on software development with your fellow users, I bet I am not the only one wainting for a small idea of what you are _really_ working on.
Christoph
That means it’s coming for Macs as well? Right? Right?
Unfortunately I don’t own an iPad, but if I did Papers would get used the most on mine.
The post does not mention anything about the syncing of any of these new features. How is that coming along?
P.S. Since I started working on two macs, Skim hasn’t been useful for highlights and I realized how limited Papers is in the frequency of its database updates (what a pain to close it with multiple tabs open and lose them just to get the library file updated before going home to a different mac).
I hope highlights with syncing are coming! Thank you and keep it up!
Will this highlighting and note-taking ability come to the desktop Mac OS X version of Papers soon?