How do I display PDF document as single pages on iPad?

Question

Hi,
I have a company catalogue in PDF format, 20 pages long. We use Issuu to allow customer to view the catalogue on their PCs and mobile devices.
In Issuu you can customise the embed widget to show single pages, and this works fine when viewing the catalogue on a PC. The problem arises when trying to view the catalogue on an iPad. It appears that the iPad automatically sets the PDF to view as a Facing Pages document. It doesn't matter if I'm using Safari, or the Atomic browser we have installed (so that we can hide the URL bar).
I've created the document in inDesign as a single page document but the iPad still merges pages 2-3, 4-5, 6-7 etc.
The iPads will be used in our retail stores so it's important that the set up and navigation is as simple as possible. The catalogue is placed within an iFrame on the page so that I can but a navigational banner at the top that easily takes customers back to the main menu page. It's important that the catalogue opens within the page. The Issuu embed widget for Tumblr, etc only creates a preview of the catalogue which then opens in a separate tab, which unfortunately will not be suitable to our needs.
You can view the page here: http://www.eurocollections.com/block/catalogue.html
I've tried a number of different options, I've written to Issuu but they were unable to help as it only seems to be an iPad-related problem.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Peter

Answer 1

The PDF viewers on the iPad do not understand customised widgets.  They understand the PDF format, exactly as it was designed by Adobe.  Instead of trying to use a custom solution, use the features which are provided by the PDF format.  Custom solutions work only for the situations that the company that wrote the custom solution wants them to work and they are a corruption of the normal way PDFs are used.
In your situation I'd remove all dependency on any custom widgets from your PDF document.  Instead you can use links which allow you to click on a piece of text or an image in the PDF and the PDF software will take you to a different page.  This is part of the PDF standard and will work on all software capable of showing PDFs.  It is all your users should need to navigate from one part of your catalogue to another.  Whatever software you're using to create your PDF should give instructions on how to create links in your PDF document.
Similarly your use of iFrames is a little stange.  If your material is on a web site, put it in web pages where you can use all the features web pages give you, including blue-underlined links to other pages.  If, instead, your material is in a PDF then put all the navigation in the PDF.  Don't try to depend on a strange interaction between the PDF and your web pages.