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Can I trick GitHub into displaying the PDF in the browser instead of downloading it?
Use Google Docs viewer with a url like:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=${link_to_raw_pdf}
e.g.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/degoes-consulting/lambdaconf-...
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Link to view PDF version of a Google Docs
Replace the beginning of the url with the Google Docs viewer.
This is what you need:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://docs.google.com/x/yyyy/document/z/nvjsinmsdfjnlsnlkkn-hslknl1_V7sc/...
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Can I trick GitHub into displaying the PDF in the browser instead of downloading it?
Jupyter's nbviewer handles the task. Just paste the URL to your GitHub hosted PDF into http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/.
For example, here is a PDF that I host on GitHub rendered in the browser.
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Can't download/export a large Google Docs document as PDF (what are the limits on Google Drive?)
I just ran head-first into this very same wall. I've basically spent a couple of weeks with Inventor and Google Docs, creating a 292 page, screenshot rich, compendium / tutorial for the CAD class that ...
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How to print a Google Docs document with comments in the margin?
You can do this as follows, in the Google Document click File > Download As > Web page.
Then, open the downloaded file with any browser, print that. At the bottom of the document you will have all ...
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Can I trick GitHub into displaying the PDF in the browser instead of downloading it?
As of March 17, 2015 GitHub now renders PDF documents inline in the web interface.
Reference: PDF Viewing
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How do I convert from a Google document to PDF without downloading it?
Click 'Print' or the icon for the printer in the Google Drive.
At the 'Destination' field, click the 'Change' button and choose "Save to Google Drive" as your destination. If "Save to Google Drive" ...
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Can't download/export a large Google Docs document as PDF (what are the limits on Google Drive?)
Short answer
There is not an official published limit about exporting Google Documents to PDF.
Explanation
At this time there isn't an official document regarding the limits of the conversion of a ...
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Link to view PDF version of a Google Docs
To preview in PDF-like format, add /preview at the end, e.g.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/DOCS_ID/preview
To export as PDF, use the following URL structure:
https://docs.google.com/document/...
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How to save a PDF which is directly viewed in Firefox into Google Drive?
Append the URL of the web hosted PDF file or Office document to "url" querystring of Google Docs Viewer service -
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://aka.ms/SQLtoAzure/MobPDF
In the example ...
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How to annotate PDF files inside Google Drive?
DocHub allows you to highlight text and add comments.
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Exporting to PDF from Google Sheets removes emoji
I exported the document to excel and it shows the emojis and then they print from there.
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How to make bullet sizes match in web app vs printed in Google Docs when using a non Arial font?
As a workaround you can change the font of the bullet points (only) to Arial. There's a long thread about it and the workaround here: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/docs/lsU8AMWoc8k/...
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Can I trick GitHub into displaying the PDF in the browser instead of downloading it?
The answer by @MuhammadUsman works, but is more complicated than necessary, now that Github pages has a dedicated "Pages" panel in the settings for each repository.
Steps:
Open your repo's ...
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Link to view PDF version of a Google Docs
It took me a lot of struggle and the very helpful comment by @Quinn Comendant to figure this one out.
The url needs to end with:
/export?format=pdf&attachment=false
example:
https://docs....
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How to print a Google Docs document with comments in the margin?
Downloading as Word doc didn't work for me, but I was able to do it by downloading as a webpage and that worked perfectly.
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How to print a Google Docs document with comments in the margin?
I have tested this on linux machine. the work around is download it as an .odt document. Then open it in libreoffice and then export it as pdf. Since libreoffice is available for windows also so my ...
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How can I open up PDFs in Google Drive with the Google Chrome PDF viewer?
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible - check out this thread on Google forums.
It seems that the only choice is to connect an app to Google Drive for alternative PDF viewer (which is not the ...
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Exporting to PDF from Google Sheets removes emoji
Try using image instead of emojis?
here's a sample
=IMAGE("https://s3.amazonaws.com/pix.iemoji.com/images/emoji/apple/ios-12/256/face-with-tears-of-joy.png")
Links of images come from emojipedia.
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How to print a Google Docs document with comments in the margin?
You could use this Chrome extension to take a multi-page screenshot of the document and print that capture:
Full Page Screen Capture
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-...
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Can I trick GitHub into displaying the PDF in the browser instead of downloading it?
As a simple visitor of a GitHub repository, the following Firefox extension works for me to overwrite the content-disposition: attachment header that GitHub sends according to the main answer.
...
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How to save a PDF which is directly viewed in Firefox into Google Drive?
Going off of mvark's answer, you can use the following bookmarklet for quick access.
javascript:(function()%7Blocation.href%20%3D%20'https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fviewer%3Furl%3D'%20%2B%20location....
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arXiv: "x.pdf appears to have been produced by TeX"
This blog post has a solution:
http://blog.coudert.name/post/2014/11/26/Author-produced-PDF-from-LaTeX-on-the-arXiv
For those looking for the quick fix, go to terminal and execute:
sed -e '/PTEX\./s/...
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How do I convert from a Google document to PDF without downloading it?
I suggest Driveconverter which converts various types of existing files in your Google Drive to PDF on the fly, giving you choice to select file(s) and proceed with the conversion inside your Drive ...
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Can't download/export a large Google Docs document as PDF (what are the limits on Google Drive?)
For me downloading as PDF seems to be an issue with Chrome. I tried Edge instead and it worked.
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Google docs get PDF without page breaks
Here's my workaround:
1) From Google Drive export your document as a HTML web page
File > Download as > Web Page (.html)
2) Use Sejda's HTML to PDF converter and the handy 'One long page' size ...
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Google Drive thinks PDF is a video
I don't know that there's anything that can be done.
Either whatever application created the PDF didn't get the headers in the file right, so that other apps can correctly determine the file type, ...
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Export PDF link sheet ID auto change
ok, I solved the task with the following script
function openTab() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()
var sprsheetid = ss.getId();
var sheetid = ss.getSheetId();
var selection = ...
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Exporting to PDF from Google Sheets removes emoji
I've reported this as an issue here:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/241147770
Please vote the issue if you want Google to solve it.
Note: when I use fonr Noto Emoji emojis are printed, but ...
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