This extension can make your browsing easier, and help documents and PDFs feel more like part of the Internet. Google Docs has improved over the years, and now it offers fairly good rendering even on more complex documents. Link in the top left corner to download the file and view it from your desktop instead. Google Docs did seem to have problem on some files, and we saw error messages on several documents we tried to open. Also, the Google Docs viewer rendered the documents much better than the HTML version in Google’s cache. Most documents opened fairly quickly in our tests, and we were able to read large PDFs only seconds after clicking their link. This extension takes away both of these problems, since it renders the documents on Google’s servers. Who hasn’t been frustrated by clicking a link to a PDF file, only to have your browser pause for several minutes while Adobe Reader struggles to download and display the file? Google Chrome’s default behavior of simply downloading the files and letting you open them is hardly more helpful. Now your PDFs will always open with the Docs viewer instead. Enter the following in your Address Bar to open your Chrome Plugins page: If you’d prefer to read your PDFs with the Docs PDF Viewer, then you need to disable the Adobe plugin. If you already have Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader installed on your computer, PDF files may open with the Adobe plugin. Note that this will only display the slides themselves, but if you’re looking for information you likely don’t need the slideshow effects anyway.
You can even view famous presentations online without opening them in PowerPoint. Do note that Docs will keep downloading the document as you’re reading it, so if you jump to the middle of a document it may look blurry at first but will quickly clear up. Link in the top left to save the original document to your computer and open it in Office.Įven complex PDF render very nicely. Or, if it doesn’t look correct, you can click the You can zoom in and out to see exactly what you want, or search within the document. These documents usually render in their original full-quality. docx file from Word, it will open in the Google Docs viewer. Now, when you click a link for a document online, such as a.
To confirm that you want to install this extension.Įxtensions don’t run by default in Incognito mode, so if you’d like to always view documents directly in Chrome, open the Extensions page and check To do this, head over to the Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer page on the Chrome Extensions site (
It’d be much easier to simply view online documents directly in Chrome.
0 kommentar(er)
