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  Developer Notes from WWDC 2003
Subject:   "And Steve says that the updated Preview application will be the fastest PDF viewer in the world."
Date:   2003-06-24 18:55:47
From:   anonymous2
When, oh when will we see a PDF plugin (or native support) for a browser that isn't by Adobe. This seems like a no brainer.


Adobe's PDF plugin is horible. I don't want to have to look at (online) PDFs in preview, I want to look at them in Safari (and Mozilla sometimes too).


Just an idea.

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  • "And Steve says that the updated Preview application will be the fastest PDF viewer in the world."
    2003-06-24 21:20:41  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    I thought everyone knew of this one.
    There is a freeware PDF plugin for browsers made by http://www.schubert-it.com/download/
    Its really quite good.
    • "And Steve says that the updated Preview application will be the fastest PDF viewer in the world."
      2003-06-25 15:42:26  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

      yeah...it's called "pdfplugin" and it works really well...i've been using it for the last two or three versions and it's only getting better. check it out on versiontracker.
  • Derrick Story photo RE: PDF Plug-ins
    2003-06-24 19:57:43  Derrick Story | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of the Acrobat plug-in either. So much so, that I usually download my PDFs then read them in Preview or Acrobat reader.

    Speaking of those two apps, on thing that I miss in Preview 2.0 that I hope to see added in the new version (I haven't loaded Panther yet cause I'm still on the road) is the ability to highlight and copy specific text passages in the PDF file. So I still have to use Acrobat Reader more often than I'd prefer.
    • RE: PDF Plug-ins
      2003-06-24 22:39:38  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

      Hey Derrick,

      Text copying is now supported. :-) See you around the halls.

      Robert.
      • Derrick Story photo RE: PDF Plug-ins
        2003-06-24 22:50:15  Derrick Story | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

        Yaay! Yaay! :)
        • RE: PDF Plug-ins
          2003-07-06 04:31:03  tilney [Reply | View]

          Please please tell me how to achieve the text copying facility as I don't see it yet!
          Jonathan (using Schubert pdf plugin in Safari)
        • RE: PDF Plug-ins
          2003-07-06 04:28:24  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

          Please please tell me how to achieve the text copying facility as I don't see it yet!
          Jonathan (using Schubert pdf plugin in Safari)