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Gmail gets a proper PDF viewer
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.
Gone with the transition is the option to open up PDFs as HTML pages straight from the message, which still remains as a viewing option once you're in the new PDF view 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 without access to a PDF viewer (like on public or shared computers) as 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.
The updated PDF viewer in Gmail is now powered by Google Docs.
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I ditched Outlook for Gmail a long time ago so that:
1. my email is not stuck on a specific machine when I need to access it.
2. I don't have to continually back it up, in the event my PC crashes.
3. there is nothing to migrate, when I change computers.
I'm anxiously waiting to get an Android device, so I can access my email, calendar, contacts, etc. from my mobile as well.
"2. I don't have to continually back it up, in the event my PC crashes."
I hope you are still backing up your e-mail. Google may be great, but back-up is your responsibility.
- by LibertyNews December 15, 2008 12:33 PM PST
- You can only view files from the internet up to 500kb this needs to improve: Try out the New Google Reader- Download and read the Liberty Newsprint PDF at http://www.Libertynewsprint.com
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(8 Comments)Types of files that you can upload:
Documents (up to 500KB)
* HTML files and plain text (.txt).
* Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf), OpenDocument Text (.odt) and StarOffice (.sxw).
Presentations (up to 10MB from your computer, 2MB from the web, 500KB via email)
* Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps).
Spreadsheets (up to 1MB)
* Comma Separated Value (.csv).
* Microsoft Excel (.xls) files and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods).
PDF Files (up to 10MB from your computer, 2MB from the web)