For years, Open a PDF from Chrome on Android He meant to get out of the browser and move on to an external app like Google Drive. One more passage, often annoying, especially for those who just wanted to take a quick look at a document.
Now it’s no longer like this: Chrome finally has a native pdf playeras on Desktop, which opens the files directly inside the browser, without interruption. The PDF is charged immediately, in the same card in which we were sailing.
It is a novelty that Google had been testing for some time, but now it is Available for everyone in the stable version of the browserstarting from release 135.0.7049.101.
This reader does not just show the document: it also offers tools to write down The PDF quickly and easily. It is not a complete editor, but for basic use it is already more than enough. Here are the available functions:
- Pen and highlighting: color and thickness of the stroke can be customized.
- Eraser to cancel the changes made.
- Cancel and restore To correct any errors
- “Save copy” buttonuseful if we want to open the file with another app or keep the changes
The only thing that is missing, at least for now, is the possibility of digitally sign The documents, a detail that in some cases makes the difference and for which a dedicated app is still needed.
Then there is another detail to keep in mind: by default, the reader opens the PDF in the same card in which we are. This can be a limit if we need to Compare the PDF with the web page from which we downloaded it. In that case, it is better to open it in a new card so as not to lose the point where we were.
Until December last year, to use this function, you had to activate gods experimental flaglike “Open PDF Inline on Android”. Today, however, everything is integrated by default in the latest stable version of Chrome, e The experience is much more fluid. Try it!
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