Friday, December 10, 2010

Google Chrome PDF Viewer - this is beta software we don't want


A friend of mine downloads PDFs for work. Of course I suggested he use Google Chrome because not only does it load fast, it loads pages fast and the interface is more refined than the console of a BMW.

However they recently removed the old Acrobat PDF reader and replaced it with an in house Google PDF reader. The only problem is, it's missing buttons BADLY. Buttons that define the functionality of a PDF reader and sent my friend running back to Firefox.


The missing buttons: SAVE and PRINT

What could be more vital to a PDF than save and print. Normally I'd at least expect to find them in a righ click context menu, but as it is now, it really is just a PDF "viewer", a horribly deformed one that lacks the ability to save or print.

(also attempted the usual shortcuts, thinking that Google mighta been clever and just included it without including it, but CTRL-S saves it as a webpage, not a PDF and CTRL-P prints, but it prints like a webpage, showing only part of the PDF and only the first page of a three page PDF)

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