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Feature Requests - Adobe Reader for Android

May 26, 2010 4:23 AM

  Latest reply: Pat Wibbeler, Apr 13, 2012 9:19 AM
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    Oct 20, 2010 2:23 AM   in reply to fr3dd0fr0g


    Thanks fr3dd0fr0g, I was just looking for the best place to post the exact same wish list and you have sorted it for me

     

    I would like to say that this an excellent piece of software and having 'upgraded' from my Sony 505 to Android, the PDF reflow is excellent.

     

    EXCEPT when you page down (after working out what the last word was behind the grey heart) and your eyes flick up up to top left to read the first word of the new page and ...  it's obscured by a black rectangle telling you what page you are on .

     

    Please, please give the option to remove in the next release, or better still remove and give the option to add it.

     
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    Oct 23, 2010 3:45 PM   in reply to Varun Khaneja

    One more request - the ability to open/read PDF portfolios.

     
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    Nov 7, 2010 11:58 AM   in reply to gpbell
    • A horizontal swipe as an option to navigate forwards/backwars
    • Allow external links (just create Intents)

    Is there any indication on the timing of a new release?

     
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    Nov 20, 2010 6:58 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Also ability to use and navigate with embedded links in a PDF file.

     
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    Nov 23, 2010 11:28 AM   in reply to gpbell

    JavaScript support will rock!

    I've tested version X and hangs with JavaScript pdfs.

     
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    Nov 26, 2010 10:46 PM   in reply to gpbell

    The ability to fill out and save forms, especially in tablet applications.

     
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    Nov 28, 2010 5:18 PM   in reply to gpbell

    Would you please share whether or not the capability to view 3D PDF's in the Android PDF viewer is in the plans for the near future?

     
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    Dec 15, 2010 8:59 AM   in reply to gpbell

    I second all the feature requests that have been presented. I would like to add one to the list.

     

    The ability to add highlighting to text and also adding notes to the a high light. I use highlighting all of the time when I am using PDF documents to prepare lessons for instructing classes on my laptop and add notes to page that will help me present the lesson to a class.

     

    I have been testing the Adobe Reader for Android on a Samsung Galaxy Tab. It is one of the best reader I have found so far. I just expect the Adobe to pack a bit more power and usefulness into a product.

     

    SD

     
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    Dec 15, 2010 9:54 AM   in reply to kjfish

    We badly want to do a demo on an Android tablet device

    but cannot do so until Android Reader supports embedded

    links to other PDF files.

     

    This feature is very important to us. Can you give us

    a clue as to when/if this feature might be available?

     

    Thanks....

     

    Bryan

     
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    Dec 15, 2010 11:44 AM   in reply to zaria2

    Thanks for your invaluable feedback. We will certainly try and add some of the features mentioned above in our next major release soon. Till then stay tuned and keep us posted with your ideas.

     

     

    -mayank

     
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    Dec 17, 2010 2:04 PM   in reply to gpbell

    Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus asking for support for Rights Managed PDF documents. This is one of the missing features thats hindering our mobile device strategy at the moment.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Rob

     
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    Dec 19, 2010 10:46 PM   in reply to bbuie1

    bbuie1 wrote:

     

    Would you please share whether or not the capability to view 3D PDF's in the Android PDF viewer is in the plans for the near future?

    I would love to have that as well. Just imagine how incredibly handy that would be on a tablet! And as you're on it, we need Flash-support as well. We've started doing technical documentation using the PDF-format to provide interactive maintenance manuals for machinery and such. We heavily use 3D-Annots and Flash-GUIs for those. Having them run on a mobile device would open up a whole new market for using pdfs.

     
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    Dec 23, 2010 8:07 PM   in reply to gpbell

    I'd like to have the following features added to the Android version of the reader:

     

    • Single-page view, where the entire page is shown, scaled to the entire screen and the top left of the page is positioned at the top left corner of the screen
    • Jump to a given page
    • Page number indicator moved from top left corner, since it covers up text

     

    I wouldn't mind if all the UI elements of the reader shared a single toolbar, not overlapping the text. That way UI elements wouldn't obscure parts of the text and they'd be always available. I'm not really a fan of having to tap to get to the paging buttons, since I need them frequently (the screen is small so it cannot hold a lot of text, which means frequent paging.)

     

    Thank you.

     
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    Dec 26, 2010 6:52 PM   in reply to gpbell

    My company is anxiously looking to find out if you will be supporti

    ng XFDF, FDF features so we may display and submit forms on Android Tablets!

    The marriage of Adobe Forms, the Web and Tablets blows the doors open to numerous new applications and markets and squarely puts Adobe as the focal point of such solutions.

    Our  software has been PC-based and the 75% of our solution is usable for the tablet market.  The other 25% of our functionality relies on displaying and completing Adobe forms over the web.  Our customers are BEGGING for it.

    So can you PLEASE PROOVIDE INSIGHT AS TO IF/WHEN you would be including full form functionality in the READER product for Android?

    Many of us ANXIOUSLY await your resonse! Thanks.

     
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    Dec 31, 2010 2:10 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Possibility to annotatate PDFs, highlight text and so forth.

     
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    Jan 6, 2011 8:43 AM   in reply to edinteract

    We have a very important trade show we are going to in June

    and we very badly want to show our Android school model app

    on a tablet at that time. To do that, we need an upgrade

    to A10 Reader for the Android OS that includes at least

    the ability to click on embedded links in a PDF file and have

    them open other PDF files and then go back to the "previous view."

     

    We would need this feature no later than the end of April.

     

    Please advise whether it is likely this feature will be

    available then.

     

    Thanks....

     

    Bryan

     
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    Feb 26, 2011 8:18 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Overall it is a pretty good application but the lack of a rotation option makes it hard to use for many pdfs.

     

    But I really wish there was a rotation option. I get PDFs all the time that are scanned which are rotated 90 degrees. There is no easy way to view them easily since the sensors in the phone will autorotate the orientation if I rotate the phone to view the document properly.

     
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    Apr 25, 2011 8:51 PM   in reply to Rob Brooks-Bilson

    Hello all!

     

    Does anybody know when the support for Policy protected documents (LiveCycle Rights Management) will be available for Reader for Android?

     

    Thanks

     

    Diego

     
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    May 11, 2011 10:02 PM   in reply to gpbell

    Support for basic form field entry would be nice, including signature capturing.

     
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    Jun 1, 2011 8:41 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Support for filling out PDF forms and Formcalc/Javascript calculations would open up a whole new world of possibilities. My company wishes to develop fillable forms for tablet application for use in the oil & gas industry. We are an international company that would immediately adopt Reader as our primary invoicing application if these abilities were available to us. Any idea on when we can see these features added to a new Reader release for Android? Are these features much of a priority?

     
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    Jun 1, 2011 11:17 PM   in reply to MayaGupt

    One word:

     

    BOOKMARKS!

     
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    Jun 6, 2011 12:12 AM   in reply to gpbell

    I think XFA Dynamic Form support for Adobe reader android is really a must-have.

     
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    Jun 7, 2011 5:31 PM   in reply to gpbell

    I would love to see DRM support added. All my text books have a third party protection from Vitrius called protectedpdf. I requires students to log in with their university ID and password in order to unlock the pdf and read it.

     
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    Jun 7, 2011 6:42 PM   in reply to chrisdavis73

    hahah I know these guys from Vitrium.

     

    In fact, if the Reader fully supports Javascript, it's enough because I believe that ProtectPDF solution is built on it.

     
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    Jun 20, 2011 11:19 PM   in reply to chrisdavis73

    I am also a student. I would like to see an update or an ap that allows me to read my E-textbooks on my Android tablet PC. My tablet currently downloads the pdf and it attempts to open it, but I am unable to enter the required username and password to actually see the document.

     

    Adobe, Are there any plans to make this functionality possible?

     
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    Jun 21, 2011 8:17 AM   in reply to Lexieinwa

    This is not an adobe issue, The university uses a third party protection software called protectedpdf by Vitrium. Itrium says that they are working on updating the software for Android and Ipad, but there is no release date for a fix or patch. I am guessing that it will be included in a new software release, which would mean the University would have to buy the new release and redo all their textbooks.

     
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    Jul 19, 2011 10:56 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Reader for Android needs to support hyperlinks from one PDF to another.  There isn't a mobile PDF reader available that can do this, though it seems like a pretty basic feature. 

     

    The PDF documents I create are a collection of PDF files that have links from one document to another (example, a Table of Contents document has a list of documents included in the project, each entry in the list is hyperlinked to another PDF).  Customers are starting to ask about mobile support for our products, but right now all they can do is read the individual PDFs. 

     

    In Android, the only links that work in the document are links to html or links to pages within the same document.  I need links that work from one PDF to another, and preferably, links that go to Named Destinations in oher documents.

     

    Thanks.

     
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    Jul 19, 2011 11:10 AM   in reply to ebriefsdotcom

    Interestingly, Good Reader on the iPad 2 follows

    links from one PDF to another. What's the problem

    with Reader on the Android? Is Adobe just ceding

    this whole tablet field to everybody else....?

     

    Bryan

     
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    Jul 26, 2011 9:29 AM   in reply to ebriefsdotcom

    I'm having the same issues.  Working hyperlinks from one PDF to another is essential.

     

    Thank you.

     
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    Jul 28, 2011 7:58 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Hi there,

     

    Adobe Reader for Android is realy nice. I just use it for a few days but am still missing some features known from the desktop version Adobe Reader X.


    As a student I get a lot of PDF files. With Adobe Reader X the text highlighting and commenting function was great. I've waited so long for this feature.

    So it might be really nice and helpful to have them in the Android (or maybe a special tablet) version.

    Bookmarks support is also a often needed feature as others said before.

     

    So you may have a focus on following features to come:

     

    • text highlighting
    • comments
    • bookmarks support
    • remember last opened page

     

    Thank you for your support.

     
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    Jul 28, 2011 10:11 AM   in reply to estelkay

    Hey,

     

    First of all, thanks for your feedback.

    We know the features requested by you are very important for a user and, thus, are too much in demand. These are already included in the feature-set of our upcoming releases.So, stay tuned and keep posting your wonderful ideas.

     

    Thanks,

    prakhar

     
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    Jul 28, 2011 10:49 AM   in reply to i_love_pdf

    We are under a lot of pressure to port our security system

    with live camera links over to the iPad 2. We hope a full-featured

    Reader will be available on that platform soon as well....

     

    Bryan

     
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    Jul 28, 2011 1:21 PM   in reply to zaria2

    Yep, just keep your fingers crossed .

     
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    Aug 26, 2011 11:38 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Adobe reader on my droid won't open a file created by Adobe 8, would be great if it was updated so that it could.

     

    Thanks

     
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    Aug 28, 2011 10:04 AM   in reply to gpbell

    Adobe Reader for Andrioid is the fastest and user friendly PDF reader I found, however, there is one feature is missing on version 9.0.2, it is the "go to page" or "jump page".  I have a cruz reader with Android 2.0 for less than a year, and it cannot upgrade to Android 2.1 or higher, that means I cannot install Adobe Reader for Android 10.x, which has the feature I need.  Most of PDF documents I read are over 600 pages, without "go to page" function, I cannot use Adobe Reader, I wish Adobe can come out version 9.0.x that has "go to page" functions, thanks.

     
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    Aug 31, 2011 1:16 AM   in reply to nike0777

    Hi,

     

    I am sorry but it is not the case. We do support files created through Adobe Acrobat 8.

     

    It seems to be an issue specific to this  document.

    1. If possible, can you please share your concerned file with us?

    2. Also, can you please tell what happens when you try to open this document? Do you observe any CRASH? Do you get any ERROR DIALOG?

     

    Thanks and regards,

    prakhar

     
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    Aug 31, 2011 2:57 AM   in reply to i_love_pdf

    Can you give us any insight into the plans for R10 on the iPad2?

     

    We have a trade show in Dallas in Nov. and would dearly love to feature

    our system running on R10 by then. The Good Reader we are using as

    a demo now doesn't have the features we need.

     

    Thanks....

     

    Bryan

     
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    Aug 31, 2011 3:52 AM   in reply to zaria2

    Hi Bryan,

     

    Thanks for posting your request.

     

    We hope to have ur request resolved before your event happens in November. You just need to stay tuned.

     

    By the way, what features are you actually looking for?

     

    Regards,

    prakhar

     
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    Aug 31, 2011 4:50 AM   in reply to i_love_pdf

    There are two features that we need badly.

     

         1. The ability to open a PDF-to-PDF link       

            in a new window. GR opens everything in

            one existing window, not good for us.

     

         2. We have links to live surveillance camera

               feeds from icons embedded in our security

            site and floor plans. These work really well

            on an existing Win7 platform. To get them to

            work well on an iPad2 with GR is going to be

            a development project.

     

    We have already started the development project for (2),

    but there are some inherent problems with it in GR

    that make it worse than we first thought.

            

    Thanks....

     

    Bryan

     
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    Aug 31, 2011 6:33 AM   in reply to i_love_pdf

    I have found that a lot of basic functionality works in Android but not on

    Pad, so the restraints are oftentimes more of an iPad issue.

     
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