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Files by Google has rolled out a new PDF viewer after previously relying on Google Drive. Primarily, this new PDF viewer provides...

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[-] db2@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I'll stick with the GrapheneOS PDF viewer.

[-] Cris16228@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

My only problem is that it's a paging PDF and not a scroll PDF

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A lot of PDF viewers I've seen on F-Droid are like this.
I wonder if it's because getting it rendering pages fast enough to let the user freely scroll is difficult to achieve or something of the sorts...

[-] foxitixation@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Is it better or because Files by Google is Google

[-] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[-] jinwk00@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Honestly better for me as well, loads faster but it could be my bias (running on Pixel 8 Pro)

[-] foxitixation@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I'm on LineageOS which I don't think has a default pdf viewer so I am going to try GrapheneOS.

[-] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Fuccccccck Google

this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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