Thursday, November 11, 2010

Chrome Integrates PDF Viewer

Google just announced that now if you are a Chrome user you no longer need to have Adobe Reader installed to view PDF files.  It loads PDF files just as Adobe would, but directly into a web page.  Even the form fields still work.  Here is a form from my old college loaded through the Google PDF Viewer.
As you can see, the fillable fields are highlighted in a light blue and you have the 4 buttons at the bottom that you need to control the form, these buttons are only visible when you mouse down towards the bottom.  If you want to print the form, you just use the wrench menu from Google Chrome's toolbar.  This is going to make Chrome OS a lot nicer and soon the Chrome Browser will be the only software needed on a Windows PC, Mac, or Linux machine as well.

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