gPDF – View PDF, DOC, DOCX and PPT Files Online
gPDF is a handy tool to view online PDF, DOC, DOCX and PPT files. It sets links to these files to open with Google Docs Viewer. You don’t need any desktop based PDF viewer (like : Adobe Reader) or Office Suit (like: MS Office) to open these files. gPDF works with PDF files, Word files (.doc and .docx) and PowerPoint presentations (.ppt).
Features of gPDF / Google Docs Viewer
- Safe. You don’t need to use potentially vulnerable tools such as a local PDF reader. You open files remotely, without downloading them.
- Fast! No more wait for downloading PDF, PPT, DOC and DOCX files! Google Docs Viewer processes files with super speed. It feels like visiting another web page.
- HTTPS Secured connection. gPDF connects to Google Docs Viewer using secured connection. Know more about HTTPS.
- You don’t need Adobe Reader or MS Office to open online files.
- Full screen view. gPDF now opens PDF, DOC, Docs and PPT files in full screen mode. You can switch to normal view though (see the screenshot below).
- Links to EDIT and SAVE file in your Google Docs account. Note: Google Docs does not support editing PDF files.
Install gPDF
Firefox users can install the gPDF add-on from here.
Chrome users can install gPDF extension from the Chrome extension gallery.
Install gPDF as a greasemonkey script (userscript) from userscripts.org.
Opera and Safari users can use gPDF as a greasemonkey script.
Opera and Safari support GM scripts! See details here.
How To Download files for offline use
A lot of users want to save files to their computers for offline use. You can download files using download link @ Google Docs. (see the screenshot below)
Credits
Thanks to Mr. Stephen Walker for his kind support in re-writing the gPDF 3.0 codes. Thanks to David, and hundreds of the users for their valuable feedback and suggestions.
Google Search Trick To Search Only Special File Formats
You can use search operator filetype: to search files of specific extensions. To search .pdf files use filetype:pdf with your keyword.
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Disclaimer
gPDF is released under GPL without any guarantee.
Changelog
- 7 Aug, 2010 – v3.1 released with new links to “EDIT” and “SAVE” opened file directly in Google Docs. Thanks Steve.
- 22 June, 2010 – v3 released with HTTPS, full screen view etc. Thanks Mr. Stephen Walker.
- 10 June, 2010 – Added support for .doc,.docx and .ppt files.
- 9 June, 2010 – Fixed the bug: cases where document.links is undefined. Thanks David!
- 26 January 2010 – v 2.1 For Chrome / v 1.2 for Firefox, Greasemonkey : Fixed minor bugs.
- 9 December 2009 – v1.3: Fixed problems while downloading. Thanks Eugene.
- 23 October 2009 – v 1.1 : Fixed problems (double prefix) with links already pointing to Google Docs Viewer. Thanks Łukasz Polowczyk for reporting the issue.
Good work for google chrome.
you can run greasemonkey scripts in safari as well, and this userscript will work there too.
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Cool tool: Use Google Docs to read pdfs in your browser without downloading the pdf.
Want to view PDF files faster? Try this handy little plugin.
very useful. great job. I hope developers like you will rock Google Chrome. Thanks.
Great tool for me. liked chrome extension. <3
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Great plugin.
Worked perfect in Chromium under Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04).
Thank you very much!
I hate opening a PDF in a browser. The solution is gPDF which lets you open many documents Google Docs Viewer. [link to post] — said on twitter
very useful addon and simple to use,
but the function is limited, hope it can support for ppt,doc and xls
and i dont know why when i login “Discuz! 7.2″ will have error “Error: dl is undefined”
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Excellent idea. However, it needs to be modified to not do the redirection to Google Docs on “file://” links since a) these cannot be loaded by google docs and b) even if it could, doing so would constitute information leakage.
hi,
i use firefox with gPDF addon.
its excellent addon.
but its not enabled in update scanner 3.1.2 page.
i hope gPDF addon enabled in chrome:.
chrome://updatescan/content/diffPage.xul?id=…
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Thanks for the great plugin.
It would be nice to have the ability to configure an exception list of sites that you want to be able to download the PDF from. Or perhaps a command on the right click context menu that will allow you to override gPDF on a case-by-case basis so you can download the file. Sometimes you have PDFs on an intranet that you can’t open with Google Docs, or sensitive PDFs that you don’t trust Google Docs to open, or PDFs that you just want to download and save for some reason.
great addon, i love it! especially, since google viewer has been improved (search function, display of graphics, etc.) this tool is really useful
one suggestion: the addon has a problem with pages that have a .pdf ending but do not directly point to a PDF-file, because there is a redirect (e. g. try out http://www.springerlink.com/index/Y546020M6Q477237.pdf)For these sites it would be great to have an option in the context menu to bypass google viewer!
this would also be useful for situations where google viewer happens to have troubles displaying the pdf-file (unfortunately, sometimes this is the case).
thanks, and keep up the good work!
another possibility would be an ignore list (to enter domains where gPDF should be inactive)
Having Firefox, which do you recommend? The Greasemonkey script or the extension? I’m asking because add-ons are known to make the RAM load go up; any takes on this?
I would recommend the add-on! The RAM load is negligible, at least for gPDF. There is no trusted way to update greasemonkey scripts.
By installing add-on, you will get future releases easily. I’m about to add more features. 
There’s a message at the top of my browser that says
The newest version of the extension “gPDF” requires more permissions, so it has been disabled.
What does this mean?
@David B: I’ve updated gPDF, and added support for .doc, .docx and .ppt files. Hence, Chrome is asking you to grant permission to gPDF.
This action is totally safe – and does not harm users.
I echo what barry (#27) said. An exception list is required for those who have access to an intranet.
I’m excited to use gpdf though since I access pdf’s from an intranet, I can’t use it at work.
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Could you please add a whitelist to the addin? The addins makes it impossible to use the SkyDrive from MS.
Any news about the new version with a whitelist?
the easiest way to add white-listed sites (where you don’t want gPDF): use the greasemonkey version of gPDF and use @exclude for such domain names.
install it from here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62538
Also, greasemonkey works with Chrome. See details here:
http://blog.arpitnext.com/2009/09/use-run-greasemonkey-scripts-in-google-chrome.html
Is there anyway to be able to send/save the opened document directly to google docs account?
Unfortunately, there is no DIRECT way to save opened documents to your Google Account in full screen mode. But there is an alternative way: Click on the right most button (see screenshot) to go to “Normal View”. It will take you to the usual view page of Docs Viewer.
Now, you can see option for saving the currently opened documents to your Google Docs account.
Gah! Write this for Safari now! Easily ported from the Google Chrome plugin!
Hi. Thanks for this great extension for Chrome (much needed)!
Two requests:
1. Please keep it small and simple (I’ve just ditched Google’s official extension because it now uses its own process in Task Manager = more memory);
2. Pleas add a contextual menu (secondary click on links) to explicitly allow opening the file on GoogleDocs or download the file.
Kudos!
Oh, I forgot in request #2: open in new tab. Thanks again!
In Opera with GreaseMonkey script there is no download link to save file to your local drive…
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