ThinDoc: Zero Footprint Full Screen Adobe-Free PDF Viewer

jacobl — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT

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PDF is, by far, the most ubiquitous document format on the internet. Many sites, including our own, put white papers on the internet in Portable Document Format. Unfortunately viewing some of these documents requires downloading hundreds of pages and if you do not have Foxit or Adobe Reader, you've got to go download that too. Granted, in this day-and-age, that's highly unlikely.

Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a website that let me view PDFs in a no-download-required viewer? It would be even better if it let me change the links to the PDFs on my site so that my customers didn't have to download the PDFs either. Oh, and if that's not asking enough, it would be awesome if I had a bookmarklet that would make all PDFs open in that viewer by default at the click of a button.

Well, looks like all those prayers have been answered today!

Introducing ThinDoc: a Zero Footprint Full Screen PDF Viewer.

How to Use

Check out these documents:

Get the Bookmarklet:

Check out the ThinDoc: About page to learn how to get the ThinDoc Bookmarklet and open all online PDFs in ThinDoc.

Add this script to your site:

Add the following code to the end of any HTML page that contains links to PDF documents. This method only works if the link is pointing to files ending in "pdf". Due to some limitations of our blogging software, if you plan oncopying the script, I recommend you do so at the ThinDoc: Aboutpage.

<script type="text/javascript"> <!--

--> </script>

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ThinDoc: Zero Footprint Full Screen Adobe-Free PDF Viewer