Text overlapping when viewing pdf in Safari

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Text overlapping when viewing pdf in Safari

When opening certain types of pdfs from a link from a private site for work, some of the text is overlapping in the document. Particularly when there are bullets and tables. These are instructional documents that were originally created in InDesign with lots of steps, tables, bullets, etc. I opened several other pdfs from various other sites, all of the pdf's seemed to work seamlessly. What could cause these types of pdfs to malfunction on the iPad and how do I fix it?

Posted on Jun 8, 2010 12:22 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 8, 2010 12:33 PM in response to sara_h

Maybe the fonts were not embedded into the PDF and safari is substituting the fonts with another and this is throughing off the PDF layout. Goodread is a very good PDF reader. Maybe Realreader can read these PDFs correctly. This app is in the app store. Goodread does a lot more than just reading PDFs...worth the money.

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sara_h Author

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Jun 8, 2010 12:42 PM in response to David M Brewer

Does Good Reader become the automatic default reader, so if I open an pdf from a link, it uses Good Reader to view it? Or do I have to save the pdf or open it somehow through Good Reader in the first place?

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Jun 8, 2010 1:14 PM in response to sara_h

You copy the PDF URL into Goodreader. Goodread has better navigation. You can zoom from page 1 to 158 in a second. To navitagtate in safari you have to painfuly scroll. In safari contents, links and index links don't work. In Goodreader all of the links work.

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sara_h Author

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Jun 8, 2010 1:19 PM in response to sara_h

Are there any apps that would automatically and correctly open the pdf? We're debating using the iPad for training, and needing to copy/paste a url is not the most user-friendly method. It would only be slightly annoying to me personally, but it's really not a scalable option for 1000s of potential users with various computer skills.

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Answer 5

Jun 8, 2010 1:45 PM in response to sara_h

sara_h wrote:
Are there any apps that would automatically and correctly open the pdf? We're debating using the iPad for training, and needing to copy/paste a url is not the most user-friendly method. It would only be slightly annoying to me personally, but it's really not a scalable option for 1000s of potential users with various computer skills.

Would have nice if you indicated this from the get go, oh well. You can load the PDFs into the iPad. Place the links for the PDFs into Goodreader. Or, teach them how to use a laptop or desktop computer.

To me and to the rest of the computing word copy and paste isn't annoyance. You have an iPad, right?

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sara_h Author

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Jun 8, 2010 2:00 PM in response to David M Brewer

If people can open the pdf directly from a link, then it is intuitive and does not have to be explained. If it has to be copy/pasted, I don't mind doing this personally (it is an extra, unecessary step besides the conventional "click on a link" method, hence the slightly annoying part), and while it is not hard, it would have to be something that is taught and communicated to other users - thousands of other users who due to the law of large numbers, many would forget or have issues, which results in support calls. The pdfs also frequently change, which rules out preloading anything.

It doesn't seem like too much to ask to have a decent pdf reader built in without depending on an app or adding a separate step.

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