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I don't follow... Can you elaborate?
by j2d2 18y ago
I don't follow... Can you elaborate?
- dcurtis 18y agoApparently, if you submit a PDF, Hacker News automagically converts it to a Scribd iPaper link. Some people apparently find loading the flash iPaper viewer as more annoying than viewing a raw PDF.
- GHFigs 18y agoiPaper: It's like paper...jabbed into your eye.
- xmilestegx 18y agoI personally would choose scribd over PDF, but the firewall my employer has in place blocks scribd. I still want to read the linked document so PDF becomes a necessity unless I use a proxy which could get me fired. Maybe that'll jump start my startup. :D
- gibsonf1 18y agoThe problem is that some pdfs on scribd are rendered in a way that makes the text fuzzy and almost unreadable. The only way to read the text in those cases is to load the raw pdf.
- orib 18y agoThat's not the biggest issue for me. Often the PDFs that get posted are interesting enough for me to want to archive and read more in depth on the bus, when I don't have an internet connection. Scribd makes this a royal pain in the arse. Also, I strongly prefer the native feel of a decent PDF reader over a slow Flash UI running in the browser. (no, Adobe doesn't count as decent.)