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[matgb]

From theweaselking:

Mike Hoye provides Ways To Make PDFs Not Suck for everyday use and viewing.

The short version:

Get Firefox.
Get the PDF-Download extension for Firefox, allowing you to choose to open PDFs in the browser, convert to HTML, or download to your PC, on the fly.
Get Foxit Reader, which is just like Adobe Reader but teeny and not bloated and fast.

No more clicking badly labelled links and having my PC chug for half an hour for me. Oh, also a metaquote:

Man: If you don't interfere with human affairs, what do you do with all your time?
God: Your Mama...heh heh heh...seriously though, I told that joke to this dude in Nazareth this one time and he so totally believed me.

Today, I have mostly been sleeping. And browsing. And shouting at Blogger for being crap. And shouting at my blog template for not working right. Oh, and destroying the Mongols utterly in CivII. And reading BritBlog roundup #51, which is always a great way to kill a Sunday.

Oh yeah, I went to the shop earlier, I was out of margerine and salad cream. That meant no toast and no other meals. That!=good. Work tomorrow, best behaviour, the company owner visits Tuesday.

Comments

[jackthomas.livejournal.com]

Or just use a Mac, as the fast Preview app also handles pdfs. :P

Apple Mac - for real ultimate power.

[fearmeforiampink]

Heh. At the moment I'm mostly opening them in Illustrator and suchlike, but that's to make grabbing pictures and suchlike easer.

Also, I have to say that "real ultimate power" makes you sound like a badly translated bit of anime.

[jackthomas.livejournal.com]

Thats a very acurate description of me :)

[matgb]

That's scary.

Besides, I'm aware that Macs have many added bonuses, but they have the 'significant expense' drawback. I considered getting a Mini, but then I forgot to pay the car tax; my finances will recover eventually.

[jackthomas.livejournal.com]

I have a symbiotic realtionship with mine now, they will prise the iBook out of my cold dead hands.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

I already have the pdf thingy (I think) but my laptop still makes firefox go mini-sploo while it tries to load pdfs.

[matgb]

The extension, or the viewer?

I really hate sites that don't tell you you're about to load a pdf, it's just bad. You should be able to tell what extensions you have in the tools menu.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... maybe not. *downloads shiny extension to stop firefox go ker-splut*

[raksaksa.livejournal.com]

The God part of that metaquote sounds exactly like something Odo would say...

[matgb]

True, but I've known so many people over the years that think saying that sort of thing is funny. The whole thing is genius, there's a link to it on the metaquote.

[js84.livejournal.com]

I find PDF Download to be one of the most used of my Firefox extensions. That and Gmail notifier.

By contrast Apple's Quicktime browser plugin completely whores all associations with mp3 links so that they open in the browser. If someone gave me the link to an mp3 straight off, I'd be virtually unable to download it. :(

[matgb]

another reason to avoid plugging in Quicktime. I wonder if there's an Irfanview plugin. hmmm...