QuickStart
Guide
PDF Viewer
4 for iOS
PDF Viewer 4 for iOS
Welcome to
PDF Viewer
PDF Viewer is designed to offer an
immersive document reading mode
while still providing quick access
to tools and settings. Tapping a
document once will switch between
reading and tool modes.
Document Title The Toolbar
The toolbar at the top provides access
to navigation and editing tools, with
the document tabs — used to switch
between all open documents — located
directly below.
Annotation Tools
When you enter annotation mode, a
bar with annotation tools will show up.
You can drag the annotation toolbar
around to dock it to the left, top, or
right edge of the screen.
Page Scrubber Bar
At the very bottom, you’ll see the page
scrubber bar, which offers a quick way
of scrolling through a document.
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The Toolbar
First, let’s have a look at the
icons in the toolbar:
Viewer settings is where you can
change the look and feel of PDF
Viewer, including scroll modes, page Search helps you find text inside a
transitions, and the appearance. document or its annotations.
The system share menu sends The document overview holds a list of
documents to other apps, a printer, or bookmarks, annotations, and other file
your other devices. information.
The annotation editor opens the Thumbnail view mode shows a grid
annotation toolbar and displays all the of a document’s pages and provides
available annotation tools. access to the Document Editor.
If you can’t find the icon you’re looking for,
PDF Viewer likely couldn’t fit all the icons
The bookmark action adds or removes on the screen. You’ll find the hidden icons
a bookmark for the current page. by looking for the additional tools icon.
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Viewer Settings
Make Quick Changes
While Viewing a Document
You can tweak the appearance and
behavior of the document viewer
in the settings menu.
If you can’t find the viewer settings
icon, PDF Viewer likely couldn’t fit all
the icons on the screen. You’ll find
the hidden icons by looking for the
additional tools icon .
Advanced Settings
and Tools
The settings icon inside the
document view only shows
the most commonly used view
settings. Additional settings
and tools are available
through the settings icon
shown in the top bar of the file
browser. These include things
such as third-party licensing
information, customer
support, access to beta
features (when available), and
more.
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Annotation Tools
The annotation tools are accessible Quicker Annotations
through the annotation toolbar. PDF
If you just want to quickly
Viewer might group tools together. A
add an annotation, you can
group can be recognized by a small
use a long press anywhere
triangle in the lower left corner of an
inside the document view.
icon: . The tool that was used last
The long press opens a
stays active and can be selected with
context-sensitive menu with
a tap, while long-pressing the icon will
annotation tools, which
open the group. Now let’s have a look
you can use right away
at the tools.
without having to open the
annotation editor.
Text Markup Tools
Squiggly
Highlighter Underline Strikethrough
Underline
Text and Signature Tools
Free Text Text Callout Signature Note
Drawing and Shapes
The ink annotation tool acts as a With the polygon shape and polyline,
freeform drawing tool. As you might you can simply tap the screen to add
notice, there are two of these in the points to a shape. The former will
toolbar — this way, you can have two connect your first and last points into
types of pens and quickly switch an outline, while the latter will not
between them. (instead forming a line only).
Ink Tool Highlighter Arrow Line
Rectangle Circle Polygon Polyline
Media and Erasing, Selection,
Annotation Presets Undo, and Redo
With these tools, you can take a photo You can use the eraser to delete ink
with your camera or access your annotations or parts of them and
photo library, add a stamp, save any the selection tool to draw a selection
copied annotation as a preset, or use rectangle (useful for grouping
the microphone to record a sound annotations).
annotation.
Image Stamp Eraser Selection
Saved Sound
Undo Redo
Annotations Recording
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Drag and Drop
On iPad, PDF Viewer fully supports drag and drop,
making operations like adding text or images from
other apps straightforward and quick. Simply select
some text or an image and drag it to PDF Viewer
with a document open. The text or image will then
be added to the active page as an annotation.
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You can visit our FAQ page for more
information on how to use PDF Viewer to edit,
annotate, and share documents.
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The Document
Editor
When in thumbnail view mode, you’ll
notice the toolbar changes; most of
the icons disappear, leaving only two.
Thumbnail Document
View Mode Editor
It’s here that you can enter the
Document Editor, where you can
manipulate the pages of a PDF or
export them into new documents.
Document Editor Tools
Add New Pages Delete Selected Pages Duplicate Pages
Rotate Selected Pages New PDF from Pages Select/Deselect All Pages
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PDF Viewer
Document
Merging
Everything we looked at so far As the name implies, document
is available for free. With a Pro merging joins two PDF documents.
subscription, you can use more You can access it when adding a new
advanced features. page ( ) with the Document Editor.
Page Copy Document
& Paste Information Editor
The Document Editor supports Pro subscribers can edit the
options for page duplication and entries presented in the document
adding new pages out of the box. In information view. These include
the Pro version, you can also copy and document tags, document authors,
paste pages between documents. and document permissions.
You can access the copy and paste
functionality via the following three
icons on the Document Editor toolbar:
Document Document
Cut Page Copy Page
Overview Information
Paste Page
Replies and Reviews
Adding comments, replies, and reviews
to the currently selected annotation
can be done via the Comments button
in the menu shown when tapping on
an annotation:
nspector Comments Copy
If you select Comments, you’ll notice
you can now add additional comments
to an annotation note. You can also
add a review to existing comments
via the comment options menu ( ••• ).
There are four possible states:
Accepted Completed Cancelled Rejected
Storage
Replies and Reviews are stored in the PDF
document itself and are fully standards-compliant,
meaning you can edit them with Adobe Acrobat too.
Redaction Tool
The Redaction tool enables secure
and irrecoverable removal of sensitive,
confidential, or privileged text from
PDF documents.
The redaction remains an annotation
until it is committed. This means
you can change its style, as well
add comments and a state, which
simplifies the review process.
You’ll also notice that, once a
redaction is created, a red rectangle
shows up at the bottom-right
corner of the screen — this is where
the redaction can be previewed or
permanently applied.
Redaction Tool
The Redaction tool can be found in the annotation toolbar, and it is
used like any other text selection-based tool. You simply select the
text to redact, and that text gets annotated as a pending redaction.
Thank you!
— the PSPDFKit Team
