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doesn't in-browser pdf viewing suck apart from safari?
by xlnt 19y ago
doesn't in-browser pdf viewing suck apart from safari?
- amichail 19y agoI don't understand scribd's popularity. What's wrong with pdfs?
- xlnt 19y agoi never liked acrobat reader on windows much. maybe that's it? or people just don't know where to host their pdfs. or don't know how to make pdfs.
- amichail 19y agoSo maybe the popularity comes out of ignorance?
- xlnt 19y agoyes. but that's not necessarily a bad thing to say about scribd. if scribd makes it easier for people to not know anything about how to use computers, then that's valuable to lots of people.
- amichail 19y agoScribd should win some award for being the most counterintuitive successful startup. It's hard to imagine that computer science majors came up with this idea!
- xlnt 19y agoyoutube doesn't do much besides make a few things easy: make a file web accessible and convert to another format and provide comments and some text people can paste to embed it, and i guess favorites and a bit more -- all the kinds of things scribd has i think. plus give away free storage space and bandwidth, which scribd does too.
- rms 19y agoDefinitely... the .pdf readers in OSX and Linux work much better. The .pdf reader in Windows that feels the most like a *nix .pdf reader is Foxit PDF. The Foxit PDF editor is also pretty nice, it lets you edit .pdfs at a relatively low level of markup and spacing.
- richcollins 19y agoScribd largest corpus of user submitted documents: http://www.scribd.com/groups/adult/7 http://www.scribd.com/groups/adult/7 ;)
- ken 19y agoProbably -- I wouldn't know -- but I much prefer it even when Firefox opens a PDF in Preview or Evince than trying to use iPaper. The two most common things I do with a PDF, scrolling and searching, work exactly the same there as in the browser. Breaking a man's keyboard shortcuts and scroll-wheel is the webpage equivalent of kicking him in the nuts. It just ain't right.