Transferring files
How Do I ...
... transfer files to GoodReader?
... transfer files to GoodReader (full version), if I was previously using GoodReader Lite?
... save a file from Safari to GoodReader?
... read my e-mail attachments in GoodReader?
... get files from MobileMe iDisk? box.net? FilesAnywhere.com? MyDisk.se?
... get files from Google Docs?
... get files from FTP servers?
... send an e-mail with files from GoodReader?
... stop GoodReader from putting default Subject and Message texts in my e-mails?
Viewing files
How Do I ...
... show or hide navigation menu when viewing files?
... copy text from a PDF page to clipboard?
... solve a problem when I try to open a PDF file and the app crashes?
... solve a problem when I see an empty page instead of a real PDF page?
... solve a problem when I see a scrambled text in my PDF?
... solve a problem when opening my PDF takes too long?
... solve a problem when I don't see all Chinese or other Asian characters in my PDF?
... solve a problem when I see some unreadable text instead of a real one in my TXT file?
... quickly enlarge the found text in a PDF file without hiding navigation menu?
... convert my Microsoft Office files to PDFs?
Integration with other iPhone apps
How Do I ...
... open files to view in GoodReader from another application?
Other
How Do I ...
... clear all the history of search strings? visited web-sites?
... solve some other problem that is not listed here?
There are several ways to do that:
iPhone OS treats GoodReader and GoodReader Lite as 2 totally different apps. No iPhone app may access another app's internal storage space (called "sandbox"). That's simply impossible. This is how iPhone OS is designed. Therefore you have to transfer your files from your computer (if you have them there) to the full version of the app manually via WiFi. If you don't have those files on your computer, you can use the same WiFi transfer technique to transfer files from the Lite version to your computer first, then re-transfer those files to the full version.
If your computer is not available at the moment, but you have some online storage facility like MobileMe iDisk or box.net available, you can upload files there from the Lite app, and download them to the full app.
If you browse the Web with Safari, and open a file that is interesting to you, there is a way of saving this file into GoodReader's internal local storage, so you will be able to view this file with GoodReader without loading it from the Internet every time (like it happens in Safari).
To save a file from Safari to GoodReader:
Please note, that this technique doesn't always work with secure servers. If it doesn't, then try browsing for this file in GoodReader's built-in web-browser, rather than in Safari.
The iPhone OS architecture doesn't currently allow other apps to directly access E-Mail messages stored on your iPhone/iPod in the built-in Mail app. However, you can access E-Mail servers via IMAP or POP3 protocol directly from GoodReader to find an e-mail message with a file attachment and to download such attachment into GoodReader. Please read more here. This feature is a paid add-on.
You can use Connect to Servers feature to connect to servers like MobileMe iDisk, box.net, FilesAnywhere.com, MyDisk.se or any other WebDAV server on the cloud. See the Connect to Servers Manual.
You can use Connect to Servers feature to connect to Google Docs. See the Connect to Servers Manual. This feature is a paid add-on.
You can use Connect to Servers feature to connect to FTP servers. See the Connect to Servers Manual. This feature is a paid add-on.
This feature requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later. Use our File Management features to send e-mails, and also to do other things like copying/moving/deleting/renaming files and folders and creating new folders.
Open Application Settings, General Settings section, turn the Fill subject and message switch off.
You have 2 options to do that - automatically or manually. Choose your option in General Settings section of Application Settings. In automatic mode screen orientation will follow the actual device movements. In manual mode (very useful for reading in bed) you can always rotate the screen manually with the dedicated button at the right bottom corner of the screen on a button bar:
Use the "back" button in navigation menu.
To show or hide the navigation menu and the button bar when viewing files you have to quickly tap in the middle of the screen.
There's a very special case with PDF files, when tapping in the middle of the screen is not desirable. For example, the middle of the screen can be occupied by a big PDF Link, which will take you to a very different place if you tap it. For cases like this we have provided another way to turn the navigation menu on/off - a quick tap with three fingers anywhere on the screen.
You have to use the PDF Reflow feature to extract pure text from a PDF page, and then, while being in Reflow mode, use this button to copy the entire text of a PDF page to clipboard (iPhone OS 3.0 or later required):
We're sorry about the inability to select parts of text to copy. This feature will be added to one of the future GoodReader updates.
This is actually a troubleshooting topic, so the solution is discussed here.
This is actually a troubleshooting topic, so the solution is discussed here.
This is actually a troubleshooting topic, so the solution is discussed here.
This is actually a troubleshooting topic, so the solution is discussed here.
This is actually a troubleshooting topic, so the solution is discussed here.
You have to select proper Text Encoding in Application Settings. Read more here.
Double-tap somewhere near found text. Double-tapping not just zooms in, but it also brings the double-tapped point to the center of the screen.
On Mac computers PDF support is a part of operating system. PDF creation is available via any Print menu.
On PC computers, if you have Adobe Acrobat (not "Reader"!) software, you use either special MS Office add-ons automatically installed by Acrobat, or you print to a special Adobe PDF printer, also installed by Acrobat.
On PC computers, if you don't have Adobe Acrobat software, you can use Microsoft Office add-in by Microsoft. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/download and enter microsoft office save as pdf in a search string. This will lead you to a download page of the 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF.
PDF Portfolios are supported, but not for a direct reading, like it happens in Adobe Acrobat 9 or later. PDF Portfolios are complex PDF files with a very simple first page (usually it says something like "This file can be opened with Adobe Acrobat 9"), and a set of many PDF files embedded into this file, which is used simply as a container for other PDF files. GoodReader lets you extract those files from a PDF Portfolio for further reading them as normal PDF files. Due to a specific technology used for this extraction, every file must be fully loaded into memory before extraction, so very large embedded files will not be extracted.
It depends on what you mean by that:
Open Application Settings, General Settings section, press the Clear History button.
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