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Examples?

• jacquesm 17y ago
  Examples a plenty, if you post any pdf on news.yc you'll find that the right hand portion now links to scribd, which will do its best to mutilate the pdf after copying it to their own servers. It's basically an in-browser pdf reader based on structural copyright violation.
  • blasdel 17y ago
    Their Flash PDF reader also doesn't work at all on any of the Linux boxes I use. It actually got majorly worse when they made it less shitty on other platforms -- it doesn't accept mouse clicks at all! They sent me an email and we had a long conversation with after I slagged on their reader here before, but the general conclusion was that they didn't view the Flash app as their core competency -- they're a community site, damnit! I use the brilliant http://docs.google.com/viewer http://docs.google.com/viewer and I have no idea why the hell Scribd doesn't clone it.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      Interesting. it does work for me (ff 3.5.6, flash 10)