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Re:Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Docu... by davidu on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:22PM (#5220950)
This is impressive: https://crocodoc.com/see-it-in-action/

I'm glad there is someone who wakes up every morning really excited about taking some of the worst, most broken, least documented, and eye-gauging binary yet immensely popular file formats in the world (PDF, XLS, PPT, DOC), and turning them into sane documents for viewing on all my screens.

That's impressive.

Re:Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Docu... by goronbjorn on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:41PM (#5221123)
While that's impressive, that's not even the new version. The new conversion is here: https://preview.crocodoc.com/
Re:Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Docu... by dguaraglia on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:05PM (#5221322)
Wow. That's amazing.
Re:Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Docu... by clicks on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:03PM (#5223168)
Indeed really nice, and happy that they're doing this -- I absolutely love the idea.

But please don't making the viewing application be a constricted frame of a sort, that I have to use the nested scroll bar for. Let it encompass the entire page... otherwise it's just too small to comfortably see. I have the same issue with scribd. I prefer Google's PDF preview for this reason (complain with that is when I do ctrl + to enlarge, the toolbar panel is also enlarged and occupies too much of the screenspace).

I'm always a little bit flabbergasted that really smart folks consistently keep looking over this... I zoom into everything, and so do many other people. This is a super important readability issue.

Re:Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Docu... by dguaraglia on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:07PM (#5221337)
Couldn't agree more. As someone who did, back in the day, dabble with the binary representation of the "composite document" format of early Word/Office files, I have to say I admire the work they've done. Even the newer, XML-based version of the document formats suck.
Re:Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Docu... by davidu on Saturday February 16, 2013 @10:41PM (#5234099)
How did I spell gouging wrong? :)