Feb 23 2007
The iLiad Improves
Slowly, the iLiad continues to improve.
I can now rotate an A4, zoom, and set my viewer to a continuous scroll. This means I can easily zoom in to half of the A4 (that is, A5), and then thumb through the document. This is almost good enough for viewing research content (articles from the ACM and so forth).
And, I now can annotate PDFs.
The PDF annotations are saved on the iLiad in the same place as the PDF; no doubt I could write the program that merges those annotations into the PDF myself, and I may look into it. However, for the moment, I’m content that it saves my annotations, and someday those annotations will be automatically merged into my PDF.
Carrie and I are off to London for the weekend; we’re seeing Patrick Stewart in The Tempest. Hence, I need a copy of the Tempest to read on the train on my way up to London. Whee!
Would you please comment on the search function for PDFs? I am also looking at the iLiad to replace “dead trees” for reading conference papers, say from ACM DL. In my case, I need to search quite frequently.
I read from the manual (http://www.irextechnologies.com/files/User%20Manual%20v2.9.pdf section 8.2.2.18) that we can search among the books (I assume each book is a pdf), but how is the search result presented? Just a list of files, or with extracts showing the hits? Inside particular pdf, would it highlight all the hits on the same page? And is the search done at a bearable speed (perhaps you can tell us how much time it takes to search through a typical 10-page paper)?
Thanks a lot!