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View PDF files in Safari with Reader 7
Authored by: webbix on Jan 20, '05 04:26:49PM

My personal preference it to avoid loading PDFs in the browser window. It reduces the amount of screen room by adding another menubar to that of the browser. I suppose for those with plenty of screen room (have used portables for a long time though since the PB190 the largest has is still 14/15 inches.

Our company users require using Adobe for PDF due another software dependency. As the sysadmin I have kept mine as Preview as it launches quickly and views most PDFs as expected.

One last issue about using the plugin to view PDF is that users want a copy and usually do not think to save from the PDF menu. I suppose it is still stored in a tmp file somewhere. But downloading to my specified folder I know exactly where to get the PDF.

my two cents (almost valueless in today's economy)



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Advantages of plug-ins
Authored by: hamarkus on Jan 20, '05 06:15:57PM

As most people using a pdf plug-in will probably confirm to you, if you browse the web a lot, especially using seach engines, and you don't use a plug-in, you will end up with quite a huge number of pdf files in your 'download folder', 99% of which you will have throw away again.



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Advantages of plug-ins
Authored by: webbix on Jan 21, '05 03:05:02PM

I have not looked as I don't use the PI to view PDFs but I will be very surprised if your PDFs that are viewed in the browser are not cached somewhere on your system. I assume (maybe wrongly) that at some point they will be silently deleted. So there is a trade off. I manually delete PDFs I do not want from my specified/known download folder or wait for the clutter to be moved at some point by the system. And I still have to manually save the PDF documents I want.

Personally, I browse the web quite a bit but do not find a glut of sporadic PDF files. I note that a link in the search results is a PDF and determine if I want to download it to view. Optionally, if I am not sure I choose view as HTML which provides a crummy rendering usually but allows me to see what the content is.

Really just a matter of preference and work style.



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