scribd.com — iPaper is a lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader that streams documents in your web browser similar to YouTube videos. It's fast, free, and won't crash your browser. iPaper also lets you put ads in documents for the first time ever.
Feb 19, 2008 View in Crawl 4
cowholio4Feb 20, 2008
Some PDFs will have ads too soon...<a class="user" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/yahoo-offers-contextual-advertising-in-pdfs-yes-pdfs">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/yahoo-offers- ...</a>
drgmdpFeb 20, 2008
or install latest version of adobe reader, the bloat is mostly gone
trturnerjrFeb 20, 2008
First of all I think that the digger should have asked if this was the adobe acrobat reader killer? As someone in print journalism, nothing will ever kill the PDF, or adobe acrobat. Sure this product is a great way to incorporate primary sources into a website, and I am seriously contemplating using in a couple projects. However, I don't think this supports editable PDFS, something that reader does.
boarderxFeb 20, 2008
I didn't know people still used Adobe Reader... Go figure. Foxit has been around for a few years now people.
jaredlyFeb 20, 2008
Do you really think this can be an Adobe Acrobat killer? It's built in Adobe Flash for pets sake! It's not even really reading a PDF there converting the PDF to jpgs on the server and then importing them into Flash. I do really like what Scribd is doing though!
snorkledorfMar 21, 2008
Having no choice but to put my content on their servers is not very appealing to begin with, but that it that it's a format that doesn't allow my users to save is a show stopper for me. Rather than having two parallel versions for viewing and downloading, I'll just keep the single PDF version that people can view or download as they please.
amoebaJun 23, 2008
hosted solution only = fail
n1ck3lJul 22, 2008
Nope. I'll stick with PDFs and Foxit - it's simply the best and most lightweight non-proprietary reader.
contentworkspacSep 8, 2008
It's important to be able to read my documents on the web from any browser. They still have some room to grow and partners to work with. My company is working on a integrating scanning with Scribd<a class="user" href="http://ContentWorkspace.com/solutions/scribd.asp">http://ContentWorkspace.com/solutions/scribd.asp</a>