The presentation part is very nice, with none of the menus displayed on the external dispay.Įxplain Everything. Once you get used to that (so saving and blanking the annotations when shifting slides, I've been told that the developers are working on making this automatic) then it works well. Imagine a glass sheet in front of the presentation and that you are writing on that, not on the presentation itself. The annotation works in a slightly different way to other apps. The focus of this is on the presentation, which it does extremely well. There is a slight oddity: even though the presentation display doesn't show the toolbars, the size of the document depends a bit on what toolbars are on display on the iPad.Ģscreens. Other pluses: customisable toolbars, and the presentation display doesn't show the toolbars or menus. This has good annotation (obviously) and when connected to an external display then the display version has no page transitions (note that there are transitions on the iPad display, though they rate very low on my 'irritatometer'). With a little hunting around, watching videos, and emailing developers, I've come up with the following list.

However, I'm not a frequent user of this site, so if it is not acceptable, I apologise in advance.) (I hope that this is an acceptable question I've tried to make it non-subjective and with a clear potential answer. Unfortunately, none of the reviews that I've found mention page transitions so I've been reduced to watching interminable youtube videos to try to see the transitions (that's how I found eNote Taker). So my question: is there an iPad annotation tool without annoying page transitions? I had found eNote Taker which was acceptable (there's a slight blurring of the image on changing, but that's alright), but today it got upgraded to GoodNotes and now page turning is done by sliding (I have emailed GoodNotes to ask them to fix this, but my next lecture is tomorrow morning so even if they agree it's unlikely that it'll be fixed in time).

There are many PDF annotation apps that have the first, but I've yet to find one that has (almost) no page transitions. In particular, freehand writing is difficult.

GoodReader has the second feature, but it's annotation support is somewhat limited. So when changing pages, the students' attention has to be on what just changed on the slide, not on some fancy page turning or sliding feature. Since the presentation is a PDF, incrementing information on a slide is actually handled by having a whole new page which is almost a copy of the previous one. I'm giving 2hr lectures so I have to be able to write on the presentation in response to the students' questions, or to highlight something that I want the students to take particular note of. I'm looking for an iPad app that I can use for my PDF presentations.

Ipad pdf editor