PDF Navigation on iPad

PDFs are displayed through the PDF viewer, whereas Presentations are displayed through the presentation viewer inside the Impact app.

Opening a PDF

PDFs can be found in the Presentation sub-navigation menu on the home screen of the Pitcher Impact app. PDF Thumbnails will appear along with other presentations when swiped from right to left in the menu by dragging the column bar. Open any custom or existing PDF or static presentation by tapping on it.

A PDF will be displayed. Double tapping anywhere will show various menu options.

Here are the details of various menu options:

1. Home - Goes back to home screen.

2. Name of the PDF or static presentation

3. Navigation window to navigate other pages and also displays number of pages in a pdf.

4. Send the content via email , via Pitcher Zero Drive, via Pitcher Connect and via Native Email App.

5. Displays all the pages of the PDF in a grid view.

6. Search any text inside the document

7. Annotate the PDF and edit/update author’s name.

8. Displays existing bookmarks, annotations, notifications and permissions

9. Allows the user to print with annotations, without annotations and only annotation summary.

10. Briefcase button for quick jump action.

Single page display

A single page display will have the effect of a real book and pages can be navigated like a book page as shown below.

Grid View

To see all the pages in a pdf a grid view option can be selected as shown below.

Send PDF Document

This feature is quite similar to send and share content on iPad feature as discussed earlier.

The user can send the pdf document via email, via zero drive, via Pitcher Connect and via native email app.

Search inside the pdf

For searching the text within the document tap on the watch glass a small window will appear for performing search. A text or set of texts can be searched.

Annotation Toolbar

To annotate the PDF page tap on the pencil icon and annotation toolbar will appear on the left hand side of the window. Annotation tool bar allows user to annotate a PDF without altering the structure of the PDF. By default, the annotation toolbar will appear on the left side of the screen.

The annotation toolbar can be dragged and placed on the right hand side of the screen.

The annotation tool bar can also be placed at the top of the screen.

To place the annotation tool bar at a desired location. Hold the two bar icon at the bottom of the annotation tool bar and drag it in the middle of the screen. All three locations (i.e, left, right and top positions in the screen will show a blue shaded area) will appear. Drop in the desired location.

More on annotation tool can be checked in the page using annotations in PDF

Open Book Icon

This icon serves several purpose that includes, checking existing bookmarks, adding bookmarks, editing bookmarks, checking existing annotations, editing annotations, checking information, editing information and editing permissions.

Bookmarks

Check existing bookmarks

To check existing bookmarks, tap the very first icon on the extreme left of the small window that opens after tapping on the open book icon as shown below.

It will display the list of existing bookmarks

Add a bookmark

To add a bookmark first open that page and then tap on the open book icon followed by tapping on the extreme left icon of the small window. Finally tap on the plus icon to add the bookmark.

The bookmark will be added, the name of the bookmark can also be edited as shown below.

Edit Bookmark List

To edit bookmark list tap on the Edit button at the bottom right of the small window.

This will show the small - icon in red before every bookmark

Tapping on the - icon will open a Delete button and tapping on delete button will remove the bookmark.

Annotations

Check Annotations' List

To check the list of annotations tap on the second icon from the left on the small window that appears after tapping the open book icon.

A list of annotations will appear.

Edit Annotations’ List

To edit list of annotations tap on Edit button and small - icon in red circle will appear before the individual annotations.

Tapping on these icons will make Delete button appear from where the annotations can be removed.

This action will not only remove the annotation from the list but will also remove the annotation from the PDF as well.

Clear All Annotations

Alternatively, the user can opt for Clear All option to clear all the annotations from the PDF page.

Tapping on Clear All will ask the user again for confirmation. After user finally taps on Clear All, all the annotations will be cleared from that PDF page.

Information List

The second icon to the right on the small window will open the list of all the information for that PDF. These can include recent changes, creation date, page size, page binding, etc.

Edit Information Content

The information content of the PDF can be updated/edited. Tapping on Edit button will allow the user to edit details.

The details can include Title, Author, Subject, Keywords.

Permission List

To check the list of permissions applicable on that PDF, tap on the right icon on the small window as shown below.

The permission can be edited by sliding the slider that is displayed after each permission in the list.

Print PDF

This option allows to print the PDF with any one of the three options.

The user can print PDF using one of the following options:

1. Print with annotations

2. Print without annotations

3. Annotation Summary.

Briefcase Button

This button allows the user to quickly jump to another content and then come back to the PDF presentation.

The quick jump feature provides user to search for the content, select from the list of existing presentations, videos or interactives, bookmarks and the best content.