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1) From a technical perspective, this is damn cool - exceedingly well done. Color me very impressed. 2) I hope I never actually see anyone using this on a website, attempting to make things "easier." Between Scribd and Slideshare, and Adobe trying to force its hideous crash-prone plugins into my browser, there are already enough people making a mess out of what is one of the more well-thought-out aspects of OS X. Giv…
1) From a technical perspective, this is damn cool - exceedingly well done. Color me very impressed. 2) I hope I never actually see anyone using this on a website, attempting to make things "easier." Between Scribd and Slideshare, and Adobe trying to force its hideous crash-prone plugins into my browser, there are already enough people making a mess out of what is one of the more well-thought-out aspects of OS X. Giv…
Really? I can't stand that. My download folder ends up cluttered with (inevitably weirdly named) PDF files. Worse, I suddenly am switching between programs and tabs, rather than just tabs, and the two programs have very different search interfaces (and Preview.app's is downright clumsy). Since I rarely look at a PDF if I'm not researching something, navigation and searching are really important considerations.
I'm quite happy with the Chrome PDF viewer though.
1) From a technical perspective, this is damn cool - exceedingly well done. Color me very impressed. 2) I hope I never actually see anyone using this on a website, attempting to make things "easier." Between Scribd and Slideshare, and Adobe trying to force its hideous crash-prone plugins into my browser, there are already enough people making a mess out of what is one of the more well-thought-out aspects of OS X. Giv…
>Give me a link to a PDF, which Preview.app handles in wonderful fashion any day. Really? I can't stand that. My download folder ends up cluttered with (inevitably weirdly named) PDF files. Worse, I suddenly am switching between programs and tabs, rather than just tabs, and the two programs have very different search interfaces (and Preview.app's is downright clumsy). Since I rarely look at a PDF if I'm not researchi…
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Our web-based IDE[1] does exactly this, including syncing between source and PDF, using PDF.js. Works great for the most part! [1] http://rstudio.org
nice, this is quite a sophisticated solution! have your heard of airxcell? they're doing something similar (with spreadsheets).
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>Give me a link to a PDF, which Preview.app handles in wonderful fashion any day. Really? I can't stand that. My download folder ends up cluttered with (inevitably weirdly named) PDF files. Worse, I suddenly am switching between programs and tabs, rather than just tabs, and the two programs have very different search interfaces (and Preview.app's is downright clumsy). Since I rarely look at a PDF if I'm not researchi…
For me it put anything in my download folder. It opens in the browser in a reasonable, non-resource-abusive fashion. I'm on Safari 6/Mountain Lion, so I'm not sure what version this happened.
On an iOS device with retina display it's awfully blurry, probably just not rendering to a big enough canvas.