Bugs in Apple iBooks 5.0.1: PDF support & remaining pages

Bugs in Apple iBooks 5.0.1:
1) Adobe Acrobat PDF file format support:
With iOS 5.0.1 I am still faced with severe Acrobat PDF file format incompatibility problems with the Apple iBooks app.
Pictures in PDF documents partially disappear, characters are unreadable, smeared. This makes iBook unusable, as long as Apple does not fully support the Adobe PDF file format specification!
When do we get this update from Apple?
2) Remaining pages in chapter calculation:
Apple iBooks does not correctly calculate the amount of remaining pages in the book chapter, in the footer area of iBooks. Just check it with recent S.Jobs book.
This needs to be fixed in iBooks as well.

Just other users are reading here, to report bugs best use the feedback channels:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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as we know apple iBooks becoming very popular of ebooks/ibook
i was thinking if Cisco can publish free Documentations, guides ..etc on the iBooks store will be very handy to apple devices users in particular iPAD and iPhone
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Thanks
Marwan

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