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Gmail now uses the Google Chrome PDF viewer to display attachments

by Lee Mathews on February 17, 2011 at 09:00 AM

If you use access Gmail in Google Chrome on your computer, you can now view PDF attachments using Chrome's built-in viewer. The Chrome PDF plug-in is faster than the Google Docs previewer, its rendering accuracy is better, and you don't have to change settings anywhere for this to take effect. Just use Gmail in Google Chrome and the 'view' link will automatically open your file in the Chrome PDF viewer.

The change is also nice because Chrome's PDF plug-in actually lets you print, unlike the previewer which can only manage recursion printing (it generates a PDF of your PDF).

Users of Google Apps will receive the feature soon, according to a post on the Google Apps blog.

Tags: apps, attachment, attachments, browser, browsers, chrome, email, gmail, google chrome, GoogleChrome, pdf, plug-in, web

source: Google OS

Comments

chrisarozFeb 17th 2011 11:05AM

Neutral

I've been using this for a few weeks now but didn't realize it was Chrome's doing (I thought it was part of a Foxit Reader update). My only complaint is the lack of a print button in the bottom right. As silly as it sounds, I only thought about right-clicking in the page to bring up the print option after I had spent 5 minutes looking around everywhere else, tried saving to print, and various other things. Seems like a glaring flaw since printing a PDF received via email is a fairly common task.

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