On April 10, 2012, Adobe released a major update to Adobe Reader for iOS and Android Mobile version 10. Of course, Adobe Reader is still free! When you do, make sure you read the Quick Start document that is included. Filling Out Forms Have you ever received a PDF form on your iPad or phone that you needed to fill out? When you click inside a field, your standard keyboard will appear at the bottom of the screen allowing you to fill in the document. Commenting on a PDF on your Phone or iPad The new version Adobe Reader Mobile offers a variety of touch driven annotation types that are easy to use. To get started, click the Comment button. Signing a PDF on your Phone or iPad Signing is easy. The Ink SignatureTool is also found in the Comment section: Click on the document where you want to place your signature. When you do, the Signing Window opens. Just drag your finger or stylus to create your signature! Adjusting the Signature Appearance You can change the color or thickness of the signature by pressing and holding down on the Signature until the Properties appear. You can then move or delete the signature and change the pen thickness, color, or opacity transparency. Email, Share or Store your Document To email or share your document, press the Share button: The Open In option allows you to move the PDF on your device into another workflow or location. Applications which support this function will appear in the menu. For example, you could move the PDF to your Dropbox account or Evernote. Final Thoughts Adobe Reader Mobile has turned into a powerful application. In fact, it offers more functionality in some ways than the desktop version of Adobe Reader. It certainly is a welcome addition to my day to day work on my iPad and Android phone. I was just playing around with the new free Adobe Reader on my iPhone and everything seemed to work fine, although my email button did nothing after clicking it a few times, Reader died. I then clicked the mail document which did in fact email the document, but without any of its data. I then reader extended the document and tried that but still got no data, just a blank form. Other than this, I think its great that clients can now have a better offline form filling tool on their iOS platforms! Hey, excellent so glad that this is available on the iPad! Do you have a cloud solution? I am studying a business course and if I take notes on my iPad and annotate on my pdf document is there a way of being able to view these notes on my iPhone somehow? At the moment I am using dropbox as a cloud solution but this is creating duplicate docs. Is there a better way for me to do this!? Thanks, I love the app but I would love it MORE if you had a SAVE AS PDF button to press. There is no Adobe link. Not saving really defeats the purpose of having this app. Not saving also seems to be the case with the other options as you mentioned above. My computer is too old to open these features. And I see Yahoo does not support them either. I would really appreciate it if you added a SAVE AS PDF button. Is there a way of saving back to Dropbox so that my devices can stay in sync? I would be that if he opens the file on his iPad the annotations will be there. The issue is that the annotated file is saved as a new file on the device being used iPad or tablet and not on the original file saved in Dropbox or any other cloud service. To have to email an annotated file and then replace the original file in the cloud with the new annotated one is very inefficient. My version is Adobe Reader 10. Anybody else with this problem? This is very difficult when the note is in the middle of the page and cannot be moved. Nearly there, but still some vital functionality missing. Or if we add some buttons with properties like moving to a specific page it also does not work on android or IPAD Tablets. When will the full functionality be there? The Sign tool is great. I know I use my printer less and less every day. Signing docs from my iPhone would have been the ultimate in convenience and speed. I created a fill-able PDF e-form on my computer with a button at the bottom. Under Button Properties I have the action to Submit a form going to a url link. Is there a way to make this button work? This has worked great for signing some documents. However, I have some realtor documents that were sent to me and I cannot select the buyer checkbox and I cannot sign them. Nothing happens when I touch or touch-hold. Some edits may not be allowed. When I open these same documents in PDF Expert, I can select the buyer checkbox and I can sign them without any problem. When placing a signature, if you try to change the size of the signature it distorts the signature because the sizing function does not preserve the aspect ratio. All other applications that I have used to sign PDFs locked the aspect ratio to avoid this problem. Any chance of getting this capability added here? How does one save a filled out pdf form, created with extended features enabled on Acrobat X Pro, that was opened and filled out on a Samsung Galaxy Tab? Reader is updated to 10. No save options other than the cloud, which I cannot use for this. I am having signature issues with the newest release on iPad. When I add my signature to a form, it shows on the iPad fine, but if I email it and open it in Adobe XI, the signature gest shoved down in the bottom left corner of the page. I go back to the iPad app and try to reopen and it does the same thing. Just started using this yesterday. There was also a toggle arrow on the left end of the toolbar that allowed me to switch back and forth between the two toolbars. How do I reactivate this feature? I created an updateable pdf for my advisors who work in the field on their iPads. One of the features of the keyboard in Adobe Reader is the keyboard with the Previous, Next, and Reset Field at the top. Frequently my advisors are accidentally clicking on the Reset Field and deleting everything in their observation notes. Can the layout be changed, moved, taken out. Yes, you did not understand the question. I have the same problem as Rose. Whenever I type something into a form, I accidentally hit the reset form button. It should be located away from fingers away from the keyboard, so there is no way I can accidentally hit it and delete everything I had written. This is actually the reason for me to switch to a different app. It happened to me twice. Even when I go shopping, there is no option to empty everything just before going to the cash register. I am having issues with filling in forms and saving them on my Galaxy Note. The form works properly with the adobe reader on my PC but when I use the reader on my android it only opens it to read and no amount of clicking or flicking will open the fields to edit. We have been using another PDF reader application so our clients can sign off on work on site. We were very excited when the IOS version of Adobe Reader became available to us. Unfortunately, after some good initial experiences our employees are experiencing several terminal issues. We can see the annotation in the office on our desk top computers but not on our mobile devices even when we use adobe reader. Is there a fix for this or do we need to go back to our old software? The reason for this is that the standard IOS Preview cannot display annotations or perhaps do so correctly. That is an issue for several reasons as the IOS preview is used when embedding PDFs in other apps or even in Mail. However, IOS Preview should not delete annotations and they should be viewable on desktop Reader. A workaround that works great is to use acrobat. You can sync files directly from your desktop to the Cloud and on to Reader on the iPad. When will your ios reader app support form data collection via a submit button click? Also, I have the pdf password protected to prevent unauthorized access as well as a password to prevent modification of all my javascript formulas. However, when I open the pdf in the ios adobe reader the fillable fields cannot be entered, the only way to fix is to strip out all the security settings. Will this be addressed in a future update? Thanks, Todd I have a brand new :LG Optimus G Pro and installed the Reader from Google Play. After opening a pdf from an email, I can sign the document and then when I tap to top menu to Share, I tap email and my email account opens, I hit send but the recipient never receives the email. I even tried it again and sent it to another one of my email accounts and the email is never received. I checked spam, etc. The signed pdf is saved though in the adobe folder on my phone. Do you have any clues as to why this is happening or not happening? I have just downloaded the reader and works fine other than this. Hi Rick~ I have updated to the most recent version of Adobe Reader for the iPhone. I am having trouble with filling out forms and having them open in another app and having the fields that I have filled in transfer over. Also, if there was a way to bluetooth transfer files to other devices that would be amazing. Thank you for your time! Hi, I have technicians who use pdf forms to complete invoices out in the field. I want them to be able to e-mail the completed form directly to the customer from their android tablets, however; I do not want the customer to receive an editable version as they could change pricing, etc. Is there any way to flatten the pdfs from reader mobile, or another solution for sending non-editable forms from mobile? I love the app, very simple and for my use makes very practical for potential clients to fill out forms and share them via email to our office. Though looking through prior comments I have seen many others having this same problem, with this I am wondering if any changes have been made to the app in order to fulfill this request. Have buttons been enabled on the app as a workaround from a direct command through the application?
