A new PDF Reader for Gmail, powered by Google Docs
Here’s a new feature by Google: Gmail adds an online PDF Reader, powered by Google Docs. Every time you receive a PDF file attached to an email, you can read it by clicking on the link “View”, instead of downloading it:
An online PDF reader will open, with all the main feature to read the document, as you can see from the screenshot:
You can navigate thorough the pages and zoom them. Printing the document, or viewing it in plain HTML doesn’t seem to work very well, at the moment. Color depth of images isn’t very high, too.
You can even select and copy a text to the clipboard (but not images). The selecting method is a bit strange: you have to draw a rectangle around the text you want to select…
… and release the mouse. The top-left corner will be the starting point of the selection, and the bottom-right corner the ending point:
Even if this PDF viewer has some bugs (it’s still in beta), it’s a very good tool to take a quick look at the document. It’s also very lightweight, and it runs smoothly even on my old Mac. 
Source: Visualizzatore PDF su Gmail (in Italian)
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