Friday, October 9, 2009

PDF Quick View

Google has added a Quick View link for search results that are in PDF form:



In the example above, form 1099 was searched, which is in PDF format on the IRS website.  Normally you would click on the PDF link to download and open the document in Adobe Acrobat.  By clicking on Quick View, the PDF is able to be opened directly in the browser window without changing it's format, by using technology used in Google Docs.

Because of our limited bandwidth and slow connection issues, this would be a good feature to point out to customers printing tax forms and other PDFs, as Quick View seems to load documents into the browser window more quickly than they can be downloaded.  This would also come in handy when on those rare occasions that customers are unable to open and view a PDF at all.

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