[xubuntu-users] Google Chrome & PDF viewing, etc.

[Elden Fenison]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:13 AM, darren <darren at ontrenet.com> wrote:

> But its supposed to be built in already...are you able to view pdfs with
> chromes internal viewer?
>


Is it possible you've confused the Chromium Browser with Google Chrome? Two
different things (although similar). I believe the former does not have
built-in PDF viewing.



> -------- Original message --------
> From: Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
> Date: 08/22/2013 9:04 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Google Chrome & PDF viewing, etc.
>
>
> On 08/22/2013 08:40 AM, Darren Govoni wrote:
>
>   Maybe this isn't the group to ask, but I notice that the Google chrome
> installed by Xubuntu/Ubuntu lacks any kind of PDF viewing capability.
> Mine just downloads. Chrome is supposed to have PDF viewing built in.
> Also, I couldn't find any adobe reader plugins in the repo like in versions
> past.
> I also tried to find the java plugin in the repo and it was gone too...
>
> Does this work for anyone else? Or is there a trick to get this simple
> feature back in place? Chrome is really annoying...
>
> I fired up Google, and went to extensions/get more extensions... plenty of
> choices there, including ( under extensions)
>
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/pdf?hl=en-US
>
> Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer ( by Google)
>
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