Gmail has released a nice upgrade to view PDF document attachments without having to download them. This is great news for those who are sick of their computers slowing down from having to open the Adobe PDF reader software and bad news for Adobe themselves.
In order to view the document, Gmail users just have to click “View” next to the attachment description. A new Google Docs window or tab will open the document.
There are two other benefits to this, the first being the updated page view which lets you hop around the document a whole lot faster. The other is the built-in zoom, which scales the text to fit your monitor with a higher degree of detail than the text resizer found in your browser.
To view the document in HTML. The link for HTML format is at the top of the new PDF viewer. PDFs can still be saved and viewed with Adobe’s software by clicking “Download.”
The exisiting link to open up PDFs as HTML pages straight from the message, has been removed but still the document can be viewed in HTML format in the new PDF viewer and in search results from Google.com.
Presumably Google.com results will get the updated viewer next. This would be a huge benefit to Google Search users because Google's current HTML conversion wipes out much of the formatting that can keep fonts and image placement intact, which can make things like brochures and newsletters unreadable.
In order to view the document, Gmail users just have to click “View” next to the attachment description. A new Google Docs window or tab will open the document.
There are two other benefits to this, the first being the updated page view which lets you hop around the document a whole lot faster. The other is the built-in zoom, which scales the text to fit your monitor with a higher degree of detail than the text resizer found in your browser.
To view the document in HTML. The link for HTML format is at the top of the new PDF viewer. PDFs can still be saved and viewed with Adobe’s software by clicking “Download.”
The exisiting link to open up PDFs as HTML pages straight from the message, has been removed but still the document can be viewed in HTML format in the new PDF viewer and in search results from Google.com.
Presumably Google.com results will get the updated viewer next. This would be a huge benefit to Google Search users because Google's current HTML conversion wipes out much of the formatting that can keep fonts and image placement intact, which can make things like brochures and newsletters unreadable.
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