Yay! Browser PDF Plug-in!
February 19, 2003 - 10:36pm — bmann
In OS X, an annoying thing when looking at PDFs in a browser is that they get downloaded/open an external PDF viewer (either Acrobat, or by default the generic Preview app -- which is much faster than Acrobat, but is still an external app).
But....I came across a PDF Browser Plug-in. That page even has a funky embedded pdf that you will be able to view once you install the plug-in and restart your browser. And yes, it works with Safari.
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Have you ever used this app in OS X?
The anti-aliasing makes reading awesome. I imagine that printing works the same way. What sort of issues do you see with printing using Preview? I have no problems.
I have the opposite reaction to "content on my computer" -- if I want to keep the file forever, I right-click and save somewhere where I'll be able to find it again, instead of looking in my downloads directory at a dozen PDFs with gobbledy-gook names.
This is not a "standard" PDF plug-in -- I think it hooks into the system display somehow. OS X is beautiful -- it never crashes...
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In Windows, Phoenix (and Mozilla) has issues (crashes, slowdowns) with many plugins. They're great browsers otherwise.
I prefer download/Acrobat Reader
I very much prefer to download any PDF files and view them in Acrobat - for one thing, Preview.app cannot print text properly, and Acrobat prints it beautifully. The other thing I like is having the content on my computer in case I want to keep it. PDFs compress beautifully when they aren't the graphic-laden rubbish of marketing groups.
Lastly, on MacOS 9 and IE 5.0.6, the PDF plug-in crashes my machine with 100% consistency.