Pdf is the most common document format which is widely used nowadays. Sometimes I fall in a situation when the computer does not have any adobe acrobat or other pdf viewer installed especially at cyber cafes or at university computer lab. In such situation it’s not possible to download and install the adobe reader in a very short time.
In a situation like this I depend on online pdf viewer like samurajdata.se or pdfescape. Online pdf viewers like these saves you a lot of hassle and you can view the pdf instantly. Both Samurajdata and Pdfescape differ from each other in a variety of way.
Samurajdata
- Allows you to view pdf uploaded from a harddisk/pendrive or from web source
- Does not have editing features
- Loading is quite faster
- Have keyboard shortcuts to move between pages like (Alt + N) for navigating to next page, (Alt + P) for navigating to previous page
- Does not have zooming options
Pdfescape
- Very nice user interface
- Allows you to edit files like inserting text, links etc (this is helpful if you are filling some pdf forms)
- Have zooming options
- Allows you to print
- You have the options to save the edited or non-edited pdf document
- Like Samurajdata, pdf can uploaded from the web or from the pc
The quality of pdf viewed with Samurajdata is not impressive so most often I use pdfescape
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