Comments on: GoogleDocsPDFViewer

By: Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:39:12 +0000

@Marc Federico
You can open the links in Google Docs and then you have the link at the top of the page, where you can right click and download it to your heart’s desire.

@TPReal
Thank you for this extension. So far only two or three links didn’t work, but I eventually got them (I can’t remember where was that because I read quite a lot pdfs on-line). Still, for example, at freepatents dot com the pdfs are embedded in page; those don’t work, but I suppose that would greatly complicate things, if they could be done, at all.

By: TPReal

TPReal — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:30:31 +0000

For now, doc is not supported by the Viewer. I’ll add it when it is.

By: KristofferPwn

KristofferPwn — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:46:04 +0000

Please include .doc. It’s easy: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=PATH.doc

By: TPReal

TPReal — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:00:11 +0000

Dear Marc.
As far as I know, currently it is not possible to intercept downloading a file and redirect the browser to the viewer. Your are right when you say that this would be better than just changing the links. But you are wrong when you say that the extension is useless in its current form. Maybe it’s useless for you, but for me and a lot of other people this is enough.

When there’s a way to intercept a download, I’ll definitely rewrite it to what you suggest.

By: Marc Federico

Marc Federico — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:27:51 +0000

TPReal, your viewer does not work at all, it needs to catch downloads that come through and not just allow for links clicked to be loaded in the viewer. completely useless because 99% of the time i am downloading a pdf and not clicking a link

By: TPReal

TPReal — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:17:06 +0000

It does work. Give an example of a PDF that fails.

By: dwjp90

dwjp90 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:36:06 +0000

Doesnt work, every pdf fails

By: TPReal

TPReal — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:12:55 +0000

It’s not that it does nothing. I use it from time to time as I encounter sometimes links that are not automatically detected as links to PDF files. I agree that the button could be less exposed on the UI, but for that we’ll have to wait until they’ll add the ability to hide the browser action buttons. As far as I know, they’re planning to do that in the future.

By: A,Rich

A,Rich — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:58:02 +0000

Great extension, but is a button really necessary if it doesn’t do anything ? It’s just taking up space.

By: Joep Hendriksson

Joep Hendriksson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:45:15 +0000

So I encounter problems on arXiv. For som obscure reason, they link to PDF’s without extension, and googleDocs can’t handle that at all (I guess). Here an example link:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2226

The mimetype of this document is application/pdf, but it has no extension.

I guess you are not able to solve the problem, however this is a very annoying problem…

For the rest, this application is quite ok!