Documents by Readdle

User’s guide
 2012 Readdle Inc.
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Table of Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Supported File Formats ................................................................................................................... 3
Capabilities ...................................................................................................................................... 3

Chapter 1: Overview ............................................................................................................................ 4

Chapter 2: Copying documents ............................................................................................................ 5

Copying files from online storage..................................................................................................... 5
2-way synchronization ..................................................................................................................... 6
USB file transfer using iTunes File Sharing ..................................................................................... 6
Saving attachments from Mail and other iPad apps......................................................................... 7
Connecting Documents to a computer using Wi-Fi .......................................................................... 7
Connecting Documents to Windows XP .......................................................................................... 8
Connecting Documents to Windows Vista/ Windows 7 .................................................................... 9
iCloud............................................................................................................................................. 10

Chapter 3: Managing files .................................................................................................................. 11

Managing files and folders ............................................................................................................. 11
Search ........................................................................................................................................... 12

Chapter 4: Reading documents.......................................................................................................... 13

Viewing and annotating PDF files PDF files................................................................................... 13
PDF Viewer options ....................................................................................................................... 16
Reading other types of documents ................................................................................................ 17
Reading books ............................................................................................................................... 17

Appendix: Settings ............................................................................................................................. 18

General .......................................................................................................................................... 18
Wi-Fi Drive ..................................................................................................................................... 18
Sync ............................................................................................................................................... 19
Browser.......................................................................................................................................... 19
Viewers .......................................................................................................................................... 19
PDF................................................................................................................................................ 20
Book Reader .................................................................................................................................. 20
File manager .................................................................................................................................. 20
Support .......................................................................................................................................... 21
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Introduction
Documents by Readdle is an advanced document reader for your iPad and iPad mini.
Besides displaying documents, it can store files copied via USB or Wi-Fi, connect to various
network storages and save pages from the web.

Supported File Formats

The following file formats are supported by Documents By Readdle:

.pages, .keynote, .numbers; .doc/.docx, .xls/.xlsx, .ppt/.pptx;

File Viewer .odp, .ods, .odt, .rtf, rtfd, .txt; .html, .htm, .webarchive

PDF Viewer .pdf

Text Editor .txt

Image Viewer .bmp, .gif, .ico, .jpeg, .png, .tiff, .xbm

Video Player .3gp, .l16, .m3u, .m4v, .mm, .mov, .mp4, .scm.

.aac, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .amr, .au, .I16, .m3u, .m4a, .m4b, .m4p,
Audio Player
.mp3, .pcm, .wav

Archiver .zip, .rar

Capabilities
With Documents app you can do the following:

File Viewer View files, search contents

View, search contents, display annotations, highlight/underline/strike-out

PDF Viewer text , add bookmarks
Download/upload/sync with Dropbox, Google Drive, SugarSync, Box,
Office 365, SkyDrive, [Link], Filesanywhere, Storegate, CloudMe,
Network FTP/SFTP Server, WebDAV Server; Sync several devices via iCloud; iTunes
File Sharing support, Wi-Fi Drive

Text Editor Edit text

Folder contents as a playlist, can play music in background, can be
Audio Player controlled using iOS media controls
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Chapter 1: Overview
Documents by Readdle provides clean and simple user interface. It has two main sections:
controls to the left and files to the right. You can chose either Thumbnails or List view for
your files by swiping down from the top and tapping the appropriate option on Sorting
toolbar.

Switch to Edit mode

Thumbnail / List view switch
Search New folder Sorting toolbar

Settings

Local documents
iCloud sync folder
Network connections
Local browser

The list of servers

you’ve connected to

The list of recently

opened documents

• “Documents” tab shows the list of all files and folders stored within Documents by
Readdle
• “iCloud” folder allows syncing documents between different devices with
Documents by Readdle and ReaddleDocs, provided these devices are connected to
the same iCloud account.
• “Storages” allows connecting to different kind of web servers, downloading and
uploading files.
• “Browser” gives a possibility to browse the web without leaving Documents by
Readdle.
• “Storages” section gives fast access to the web services you’ve connected to.
• “Recents” tab displays the list of all recently opened files.
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Chapter 2: Copying documents

Copying files from online storage

If you use Dropbox, Google Drive,
SkyDrive, FTP/SFTP or other WebDAV
server, Documents provides handy access
to your files directly from the iPad. You
can use any of the online storages to
transfer files from your PC or laptop to the
iPad.

NOTE: Downloaded file can be opened later even

without active Internet connection

1 Go to “Storages” > “+ Add Storage…”

and select the server you’d like to connect
to. Provide your login and password.
2 You can access files under “Storages” tab.
By tapping on any of the files will save it
locally to Downloads folder in
“Documents” tab.

NOTE: If the online storage you use is not in the list, tap
”Other WebDAV Server” and enter the URL and
credentials manually.

The file copied from the network storage

is saved to the same folder as on the
server. This feature can be modified
under “Settings”>”File manager”.
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2-way synchronization
Once a connection to the web storage is established, you can set up automatic 2-way
synchronization with one of the folders on the server.
ATTENTION: Sync uses your Wi-Fi or 3G internet connections. Large folder syncing (like your entire Dropbox account)
may be very slow, that's why, please choose one or several folders, which contain only required files.

To enable 2-way sync:

1 Go to “Storages” tab,
2 Select the server you would like to
sync with,
3 Open a folder,
4 Tap “Sync” button on navigation bar,
5 Tap “Sync This Folder” to add this
folder to syncing queue.
6 After that a copy of the folder will be
added to Documents tab. All
changes applied to documents
within this folder will be
automatically synced with the
storage.

USB file transfer using iTunes File Sharing

Documents app supports iTunes USB File Sharing for transferring files over USB. To
transfer files, connect your iPad to a computer via USB, then open iTunes and click on the
device name at the top. Afterwards, click on the “Apps” tab and scroll down. Find
Documents in “File Sharing” section.
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You can Drag & Drop files into our app’s documents list.

Saving attachments from Mail and other iPad apps

Attachments from Mail application can be saved to Documents using “Open In...”
function. For this:

1 Open an email in the Mail application.

2 Tap and hold your finger on the attachment.
3 Tap on “Open in Documents”.
You can use “Open In...” function to save documents from other applications like
Dropbox, Box, Pages, Safari, iWork apps etc. to Documents. Just tap “Actions” button in
the appropriate application and select “Open In...”.

Connecting Documents to a computer using Wi-Fi

Documents can use Wi-Fi network connection of any type to copy files between an iPad
and a computer.

The application uses WebDAV protocol to share its data with other computers via
Wi-Fi Network. Most popular operating systems and many programs have the ability to
mount WebDAV resource as a network drive.
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To check Documents app Wi-Fi Drive IP
address, go to “Storages” and tap the
Wi-Fi icon at the top right corner.

For quick uploading/downloading files, you

may also connect to Documents app using
any web browser. Just type full URL like
[Link] into address bar (replace
[Link] with IP address of your iPad).

Connecting Documents to Windows XP

1 Open the “Start” menu and select “My Network
Places”.
2 At the “Network Tasks” panel (you can find it on
the left part of the window) click “Add a Network
Place” .“Add Network Place Wizard” will be
launched.
3 Click “Next” at the “Add Network Place Wizard”
welcome screen.
4 Select “Choose another network location” and
then click “Next”.
5 Type “[Link] and Documents app IP address and port. This information is displayed on
top of the “Network” tab on your iPad.
6 Enter the name for this new connection or leave a default one.
7 Press “Finish”. Please ensure that “Open this network place when I click Finish” is
checked.
8 If you have enabled password protection inside Documents, you will be prompted to
enter your username and password. Make sure you are entering username and password,
which are set in Documents “Settings” tab. Also, please note that Windows XP may ask
you to enter the password several times.
9 As a result you should get Documents network drive mounted and ready to use:

To reconnect to Documents, first make sure that the app is running. Open the “Start”
menu and click “My Network Places”. Find the network drive under Network Locations
and double-click it.
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Connecting Documents to Windows Vista/ Windows 7

1 Open “Start” menu and select “Computer”

2 Click “Map network drive” on the toolbar on top of
the “Computer” window.
3 Choose a drive letter in the drop-down menu.
4 Type “[Link] and Documents app IP address. This
information is displayed on top of the “Network” tab
inside Documents app. Make sure the “Reconnect at
login” box is unchecked.
5 If you have enabled password protection inside
Documents app, you will be prompted to enter your
username and password. Make sure you are entering
username and password, which are set in Documents
app “Settings” tab. Also, please note that Windows
Vista/Windows 7 may ask you to enter the password
several times.
6 As a result you should get Documents app network drive mounted and ready to use:
To reconnect to Documents, first make sure that the app is running. Open the “Start”
menu and click “Computer”. Find the network drive under Network Locations and
double-click it.

Connecting Documents to Mac OS X 10.4 or

later

1 Click on the Finder icon

2 Select the “Connect to Server...” item in the
“Go” menu. You can use Command+K
shortcut as well.
3 Type “[Link] and Documents server's IP
address.
4 Press “Connect” button. You can also add the server to
“Favorite Servers” list.
If you have enabled password protection at Documents, you will be prompted to enter
your username and password. Make sure that you are entering username and password,
which are set in Documents “Settings” tab.
5 As a result you should get Shared Disk mounted on your Mac:
You can also enable “Connected servers” setting at Finder “Preferences”→ “General” to
show it on the Desktop.
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iCloud
Documents app provides a possibility to sync data via iCloud.

With this feature you can share one set of files with all devices with Documents connected
to one iCloud account.

To use the feature make sure iCloud is enabled on your device. For this:

1 Launch iPad Settings

2 Tap iCloud
3 Make sure Documents&Data
is On.
4 Once this is done iCloud tab
will be available in
Documents.
5 All the documents you copy
or move to iCloud folder are
accessible on other devices
with our app connected to
the same iCloud account.

ATTENTION: iCloud uses your Wi-Fi or 3G internet connection. Sending large amount of data will take time and drain
iPad’s battery life.
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Chapter 3: Managing files

Documents app provides a wide variety of options for storing and organizing your files.

Managing files and folders

To reveal options for managing files and folders tap in a “Documents” or

“iCloud” tabs.

To manage files stored in Documents, select these files and do the following:

To Do this

Copy file Tap “Copy” and choose destination folder

Move file Tap “Move” and choose destination folder

Rename Select one file and tap “Rename”

Tap “Zip”. The new archive file will be placed into the same
Compress file/folder folder.
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To Do this

Delete document Tap “Delete”

Tap “Email”. The dialog will pop up to edit message and fill in
Email one or several files recipient email

Tap “Upload” to send file or files to a web server you’ve

Upload connected to

Open in another app Tap “Open In…” and select the app to send the file

Sort Swipe down get to sort bar and select “Name”, “Date” or “Size”

Create new folder Tap “Create Folder” and name new folder

NOTE: When you delete a folder, all its files and subfolders are deleted as well.

Search
Documents provides a possibility to search through all your documents. You can choose
to search within the documents’ contents or only the names of your files.

To activate Search bar tap and type in the text in the search field.
To navigate to a folder with the search result tap .

NOTE: Contents search is a resource consuming process which requires file indexing and may take some time. Please
wait until indexing and search are finished to view all the results.

Tap “Done” to go back to “Documents” tab.

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Chapter 4: Reading documents

Viewing and annotating PDF files PDF files

Documents provide a possibility to view and annotate PDF files.

To add Do this
Note Tap and hold on any place of the document without text and tap

Note to a text Tap and hold on the text to show text selection box. Drag markers to
select the text and select “Note” from the popup.

Type a note to the selected extract of the text.

To edit a text note, tap on the “Note” sign (above left) once and modify
its content. To edit the color of the selected text, tap “Colors”. To
delete it tap “Clear”.

Highlight Tap and hold on the text to show text selection box. Drag markers to
select the text and select “Highlight” from the popup.

To edit the color of the selected text, tap “Colors”. To delete

highlighting tap “Clear”. To copy the selected word / phrase, tap
“Copy”. Afterwards it will be possible to paste it a note by tapping and
holding your finger and selecting “Paste” in a note popup. You can
always add a note to the given text by tapping “Note”.
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To add Do this
Underline Tap and hold on the text to show text selection box. Drag markers to
select the text and select “Underline” from the popup.

To edit the color of the selected text, tap “Colors”. To delete

underlining tap “Clear”. To copy the selected word / phrase, tap
“Copy”. Afterwards it will be possible to paste it using such pop ups as
“Note” or “Text” by tapping and holding your finger and selecting
“Paste”. You can always add a note to the given text by selecting
“Note”.

Strikeout Tap and hold on the text to show text selection box. Drag markers to
select the text and select “Strikeout” from the popup.

To edit the color of the selected text, tap “Colors”. To delete strikeout
tap “Clear”. To copy the selected word / phrase, tap “Copy”.
Afterwards it will be possible to paste it using such pop ups as “Note”
or “Text” by tapping and holding your finger and selecting “Paste”.
You can always add a note to the given text by selecting “Note”.

Search To search for a text within a PDF tap

on and type is the word.

By tapping on any of the search

results you can go to the
appropriate page.

You can start searching the web for

the key word or go to Wikipedia
from the popup.

The web page will be opened in

internal browser.
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To add Do this
Bookmarks
Tap and then select “Bookmarks”. To add new bookmark tap
“Add”.

To review PDF structure, tap “Outlines”. To navigate to another

chapter of the PDF just tap the appropriate item.

Tap “Annotations” to review the list of highlights and notes. To

navigate to a certain annotation tap it in the list.

Dictionary You can search for a definition

of any word in PDF file by
tapping and holding on it and
selecting “Dictionary” on the
popup.
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PDF Viewer options
To gain access to additional options while

viewing PDF file tap

Navigates to a certain page of

Go to Page the PDF
Crop mode fixes current zoom
level. When the mode is on, you
can swipe to another page with
Enable Crop Mode one finger even when the
document is zoomed in. To pan
or zoom in this mode 2 fingers
gestures should be used
Text reflow extracts text from a
Text Reflow PDF page and allows reading it
with more convenient font size
This option allows sending the
current document by email.
NOTE: simple PDF viewers
cannot display annotations made
by Documents app. You can
Send by E-mail create Flattened copy of the
document and then send it by
email to make sure that your
recipient will be able to read
annotations
Allows creating a copy of the
PDF. You can choose
• “Original Document” – to
keep annotations editable,
• “Flattened Document” – to
Save a Copy apply all annotations to a
PDF,
• “Annotation Summary” –
to save a list of annotations
in .txt file

Send a documet to print via iOS

Print AirPrint feature
Sends the document to any
Open in… other application that supports
PDF files on your iPad
You can switch to night mode to
Brightness read documents in a dark
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Reading other types of documents
In Documents app you can view MS Office and iWork files and perform the following
actions:

• Search for key words

• Add bookmarks and use
them for navigating
• Send the file by email
• Send the file to other
application on the iPad
• Print the document
• Set up brightness for
viewing the document

Reading books
With Documents app you can
read ePub and FB2 electronic
books in a most comfortable
way. To setup the font size and
family tap and select “Book
Reader”.
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Appendix: Settings
Settings allow customizing your application, configuring
Wi-Fi network drive parameters, document viewing,
security and other preferences of the app.

General
Passkey allows you to protect documents from being
viewed by another person. Once set, the application will
ask the passkey on each launch.

NOTE: To set password for wireless access to Documents by Readdle, use Wi-Fi
Network Drive section.

ATTENTION! There is no way to recover your files if you forget the passkey.

Indexing allows searching with the text of

your documents.

NOTE: Indexing takes more RAM and CPU resources from your iPad, so
enabling this feature may decrease performance.

Office Documents Search allows searching

within iWork and MS Office and HTML files.

Wi-Fi Drive
Wi-Fi Drive turns Documents by Readdle into
a portable flash drive. The only difference is
that you need active Wi-Fi connection to
transfer files from your computer to the iPad.

This feature is based on WebDAV protocol

and is compatible with both Windows and
Mac.
Enable Drive
• Turn Wi-Fi access to your files on or off.
Ask For Password
• Enable or disable password protection for
Wi-Fi access to your files

NOTE: Password configured here is for Wi-Fi connections only. To protect your documents from being viewed directly
on the iPad, use Passkey Lock feature.
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Sync
This option contains settings for
Automatic Sync. Also you can enable New
WebDAV Engine sync. In this mode
Documents by Readdle gets the list of
modified files from the server instead of
checking all files, which speeds up
synchronization.

Browser
This option allows:

• Set target folder for downloads

• Choose user agent, you can select
Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox and
Internet Explorer.
• Clear History removes data about the
web pages you’ve visited
• Clearing Cookies and Data removes all
personal data from the browser in
Documents.

Viewers
• Phone number links feature highlights
phone numbers in documents when
enabled
• Save media position options allows saving
the last page position when you are
reading the document or starts playing
video or audio from the place where
playback stopped
• Open source code in editor – automatically
starts editing the text of your source code
files
• VGA Output options allow setting up
mirroring. In “Screen mirror” mode the
exact copy of the iPad screen will be
displayed on external monitor or projector.
When “Document only” is enabled our app
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will show the file while all menus and
popups will be visible on iPad only.

PDF

This option allows you to:

• “View PDF in” allows selecting default

viewer for PDFs
• Enable or disable “Highlight form
fields” to visually separate active fields
from PDF background
• Set the way you prefer to scroll pages,
horizontally or vertically.
• Make Documents by Readdle zoom-in
automatically to the page width in
landscape mode by checking “Page
Width” in “Lowest page zoom fits to”
section. Otherwise it will show the
whole page in landscape mode.
• Setup page number indication.

Book Reader
Book Reader options allows setting font
size and family for reading FB2 and ePub
books

File manager
In this section you can setup the default
directory for the files you download from
web servers.

Also you can enable or disable immediate

opening files in Documents by Readdle on
startup and after downloading them from
the web.

Show Photos gives acess to Camera Roll

within Documents tab
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Support
Tapping on the “Support” button in Settings section allows you to contact Readdle
Support team in case you have any questions or suggestions. If you have faced with an
issue, please enable Verbose logging, then reproduce the problem and contact us via
Support dialog. Diagnostic log will be sent to us so that we could assist you faster.