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Greasemonkey script to de-scribd HN PDFs
- edw519 18y agoCool. Now if you could just convert the PDF to HTML, you'd have something there.
- huhtenberg 18y agoScribd'ing of the PDFs should be a per-account config option. I don't mind if it's enabled by default (Scribd being backed by YC and all that), but please allow me to disable this rather annoying feature.
- Xichekolas 18y agoNot to hijack, but my blacklist script does this too, if you want a blacklist and a searchyc box as well. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
- bigtoga 18y agoLove it - posted about it earlier this week actually :)
- ken 18y agoThat's cool. If I had known about yours, I probably wouldn't have bothered, though it was kind of fun learning about Greasemonkey. I made it in response to the comments here. It's kind of sad that for all the hacker/entrepreneurial spirit here, the default reaction is basically "try asking one more time" (there's even a couple of those in the comments on this post!). We had a poll, and people overwhelmingly voted to at least make it optional, so it's not like they don't know what we want. So I did something about it. I'm tired of reading endless "Something should be done!" comments, when it's completely in our power to do Something. Here's a Something. You made a Something, too, so I respect that.
- Xichekolas 18y ago> though it was kind of fun learning about Greasemonkey Pretty much the only reason I did this too. ;)
- snowmaker 18y agoGuys, I have a better idea. Let's make a patch for the hacker news source to give both options and submit it to PG. If you know arc (or want to learn) and are interested in doing this, email me at jared@scribd.
- bigtoga 18y agoIs this your script? http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26925 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26925 If it is, in the future, I'd suggest linking us directly to userscripts.org instead of to a .js. I think that you'll find people are perhaps squeamish about links to a .js file.
- jsn 18y agono, the link you posted is my script.
- pmjordan 18y agoCool, thanks. This works on Opera too! (user javascript)
- tokipin 18y agoi like it where it shows it as an element in the page. but for large-screen viewing pdf viewer is better. maybe the autoscribding could show a link to the scribd page (eg http://www.scribd.com/doc/1469514/TOM-JERRY-dibuixos-per-pintar http://www.scribd.com/doc/1469514/TOM-JERRY-dibuixos-per-pin...) instead of the full-screen thingie
- jgrahamc 18y agoScribding PDFs here is the new page framing. Imagine if every link you submitted appears in a frame with some ads at the top? That would be annoying (and so 1996), I don't see the Scribd thing any differently here. I have _no_ problem downloading PDFs.
- jacobbijani 18y agoYea, _pretty_ sure that's what the Adobe Reader plugin is for...