Google Docs now supports PDF files
FINALLY Google Docs is supporting Adobe PDF files. It’s about time!
PDF is the one file format I really like and I have been waiting forever for Google Docs to roll out support for it. I finally got around to giving it a whirl today and I was a bit disappointed to discover that Google has imposed a 10MB limit for PDF’s. This severely restricts what I can upload as a lot of my PDF’s are well over 10MB (e-books for example). So I hope Google increases the limit soon and if they do, Google Docs will really become useful for me.
I am in the process of scanning all my published work into PDF files so I took one of my published articles in PDF format and uploaded it to Google Docs. It was very fast and looks good. You’ve even got the narrow pane on the right, similar to Adobe Acrobat Reader, where you can see each page in thumbnail view, and you can click with your mouse from page to page.
The only downside I can see is that the clickable weblinks in the file are no longer clickable. But to me that’s no big deal.
For me, the main thing is seeing Google opening up and embracing other companies and other formats.
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