When Apple announced the iPad, I immediately imagined that it would be a superior way to read PDF books in a tablet-style format. On the Apple iPad Specs page, there is a single mention of PDF support for the iPad - in the Mail application as an attachment. However, there must be a way to view PDF files on the iPad natively, right? Let's walk through two main ways currently available to view pdf on ipad.

Built-In PDF Viewing

Mail Application - The iPad supports viewing PDF files that are sent as attachments via email in the Mail application. Simply download the attachment, click to launch, and you can view the PDF.

Safari Web Browser - Also, selecting a link to a PDF file in the Safari web browser will also allow you to view an image inline.

In both cases, notice that there is a border around the pages in the PDF content. I would prefer to have the content take up more of the screen. No problem - just pinch and zoom in to hide the borders. This choice is remembered as you navigate to subsequent pages.

There are limitations to the built-in support, however. If you reopen a PDF file, it does not maintain the  last read page location. And if there are clickable links in the PDF, such as in the Table of Contents, you cannot click on them. So, you're stuck scrolling down potentially hundreds of pages to get to the location you want.

Ideally, I would like to see Apple include their Preview application on the iPad. Even if it was only a PDF viewer and did not allow changes to PDFs, being able to jump directly to a particular page and use general PDF navigation would be helpful.

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The other day, when I was searching on the Internet, I found some people asking questions about reading PDF files on New iPad, some questions goes like this:

"The iBooks application looks great, but I can't see anywhere whether or not it reads PDFs in the same way as it does ePub-formatted eBooks. Is this information available yet?"

In fact, the iBooks app will probably only use ePub. Then you don't need to load PDF on New iPad via e-mail attachment in Mail app. While it's not a good reading experience of PDF content because it is not as much reflowable or smooth as ePub format on iPad. And you need to update iBook or iTunes.

There are many programs to let you convert PDF to ePub so that you can read PDF on New iPad freely. Here we recommend you PDF to ePub Converter, a fantastic PDF to EPUB converting program, specially designed for Windows users, converts PDF to EPUB eBooks for iPad within a few seconds. Meanwhile, it is very easy to handle. Barely two or three steps can finish all the job.

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