
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers. Get iPad at Work For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform. For example, if you get an attachment in Mail, you can tap the attachment to have Quick Look display it in. The iPad’s iOS has a feature called Quick Look that lets apps preview files in popular file formats. In this chapter, I explain how to read PDF files, annotate them, and create them, as well as how to read and create ePub files on your iPad. PDF Expert is a part of Readdle, a privately held company behind popular productivity apps such as Spark email, Scanner Pro, Documents, and Calendars. Sometimes you may also want to read or create an ePub (the most common e-book format) instead for a better tablet reading experience. The iPad can display PDF contents, but you can also get apps that let you create PDFs and annotate existing ones. For example, you can use PDF Expert to convert PDFs to Microsoft Word documents, JPGs, PPTs, Excel files, etc. It’s one of the best apps for editing PDFs, adding comments, merging files, and converting documents into other file formats.

The PDF (Portable Document Format) file is the one way to share richly formatted documents and know that everyone will see the same thing you do. PDF Expert is a PDF editor that works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Reading and organizing ePub files in iBooksĪnnotating and adjusting PDF files in GoodReader, PDF Expert, and Adobe ReaderĮxporting Pages documents to the ePub format Reading PDF files directly in Safari, Mail, and other apps via Quick Look
