Thursday, September 10, 2009

Embed PDFs and PowerPoint Files for No-Software Viewing [PDFs]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/sV7NrTI_Foo/embed-pdfs-and-powerpoint-files-for-no+software-viewing

Want to show off a PDF or PowerPoint presentation on a web space without having to include an obligatory link to Adobe's PDF viewer for the link-doesn't-work crowd? You can embed those documents anywhere using Google's document viewer.

Google Operating System points out an embed code that works for any PDF or PowerPoint file that's hosted somewhere, anywhere online, and can be pasted into just about any web space that tolerates frames. Here's an example of what that embedding looks like with an old 1040 tax form:

Hit the link for the cut-and-replace embed code, and check out the previously mentioned Scribd iPaper embedding for another no-software-needed document sharing solution.

Embeddable Google Document Viewer [Google Operating System]