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Testing Hacker News/Scribd iPaper integration

23 points by rob 19y ago

aoeuid 19y ago
I think it would be a good idea to have a preference in the user profile to disable the iPaper integration. Personally, I don't mind getting PDFs or other documents, and I love the way Evince displays them on Ubuntu. However, I can see how many on Windows could prefer to have the iPaper integration on in order to not bother with Adobe Reader.
- mhb 19y ago
  > ...not bother with Adobe Reader That's what Foxit is for.
  - spydez 19y ago
    Foxit is good - I have it at home... But at work, IT has the computers really locked down, so anything that avoids Adobe Reader (the only IT-approved PDF reader) is great.
amichail 19y ago
What about copyright issues? Do I now need to get the permission of the author(s) before submitting a research paper to Hacker News say?
- immad 19y ago
  I don't think scribd automatically publish it on the Internet beyond where you paste it (not certain of that). So I am not sure what it could change in your mind about getting permission.
vegashacker 19y ago
Now I can download the PDF only if I really want it on my hard disk (which is definitely the rare case). Otherwise the PDF's just like a well-typeset web page. Very slick.
myoung8 19y ago
Is there still a way to download the PDF? What if I want to download the file permanently to my desktop and read it in Preview?
- deleted 19y ago
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- jrbedard 19y ago
  Right now you can see the link to the original PDF just by right-clicking on the post title. But yeah there should be a link to the original PDF either in the post or in the document page. We are working on it :)
  - tlrobinson 19y ago
    As someone else mentioned, this won't work with iPhone or any other browser without Flash installed, so I shouldn't have to view the iPaper-ized version just to get to the PDF.
rlm 19y ago
But it doesn't work on my iPhone :(
- tlrobinson 19y ago
  Yes this is a big deal. Flash may work better than PDF on Windows, but this is definitely not the case on OS X, especially iPhone, which doesn't even have Flash but is great at displaying PDFs. It would be nice if there were even just a small .pdf link right next to the bigger URL. Or a way to disable iPaper integration completely.
- jorgeortiz85 19y ago
  Yeah, it totally screws with iPhone.

23 points by rob 19y ago

I think it would be a good idea to have a preference in the user profile to disable the iPaper integration. Personally, I don't mind getting PDFs or other documents, and I love the way Evince displays them on Ubuntu. However, I can see how many on Windows could prefer to have the iPaper integration on in order to not bother with Adobe Reader.

mhb 19y ago
> ...not bother with Adobe Reader That's what Foxit is for.
- spydez 19y ago
  Foxit is good - I have it at home... But at work, IT has the computers really locked down, so anything that avoids Adobe Reader (the only IT-approved PDF reader) is great.

amichail 19y ago

What about copyright issues? Do I now need to get the permission of the author(s) before submitting a research paper to Hacker News say?

immad 19y ago
I don't think scribd automatically publish it on the Internet beyond where you paste it (not certain of that). So I am not sure what it could change in your mind about getting permission.

vegashacker 19y ago

Now I can download the PDF only if I really want it on my hard disk (which is definitely the rare case). Otherwise the PDF's just like a well-typeset web page. Very slick.

myoung8 19y ago

Is there still a way to download the PDF? What if I want to download the file permanently to my desktop and read it in Preview?

deleted 19y ago
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jrbedard 19y ago
Right now you can see the link to the original PDF just by right-clicking on the post title. But yeah there should be a link to the original PDF either in the post or in the document page. We are working on it :)
- tlrobinson 19y ago
  As someone else mentioned, this won't work with iPhone or any other browser without Flash installed, so I shouldn't have to view the iPaper-ized version just to get to the PDF.

rlm 19y ago

But it doesn't work on my iPhone :(

tlrobinson 19y ago
Yes this is a big deal. Flash may work better than PDF on Windows, but this is definitely not the case on OS X, especially iPhone, which doesn't even have Flash but is great at displaying PDFs. It would be nice if there were even just a small .pdf link right next to the bigger URL. Or a way to disable iPaper integration completely.
jorgeortiz85 19y ago
Yeah, it totally screws with iPhone.