GoodReader For iPad Gets Another Update

Two weeks after receiving a significant update, GoodReader for iPad has been updated yet again. Version 3.7.0 includes some minor enhancements provided to make a better user experience. Created by Good.iWare Ltd., GoodReader for iPad is primarily for productivity-related work with PDFs. However, its real purpose is to provide users with a centralized place to view and analyze documents of different kinds. Best of all, these documents can reside on your computer, a mail server, or Dropbox.com, to name a few. The app’s biggest strength has always been its ability to add annotations, markups, and highlighting to documents. Version 3.6 primarily focused on adding data protection capabilities and the ability to flatten PDF annotations. With its latest update, GoodReader includes a fully redesigned set of popup menus for PDF annotations, which allows users to perform actions with less taps. In addition, you now have the option to “unflatten” flattened PDF files. According to the app’s iTunes page:

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 intermediate editing of a flattened file makes flattening final and further unflattening impossible.

Finally, GoodReader now includes better handling of audio remote controls, including adding a play/pause button on a headset and soft buttons on the multitasking bar. GoodReader for iPad is one of those apps that are continually improved, making it a great value for its customers. It is available today for $4.99 in the App Store. Existing customers may download the update for free via iTunes.

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