Useful Tips about How to View and Manage PDF Files in Gmail

Each time once you receive emails, you may download the attachments, normally PDF, straight to the local hard disk. Actually Gmail gives you more than the downloading features. You can open and view, even manage your PDF files in Gmail. Below are detailed tips and tricks for how to achieve that.

After you downloading the PDF files, you can easily edit them or convert them to other file formats if you have a powerful tool. Here we recommand you the PDF Editor Pro for Mac which lets you annotate PDF files, make a change to text, images and formatting within PDF files etc.

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Method 1 to View PDF in Gmail

Step 1: First, Gmail includes a built-in PDF viewer, which enables to view PDF files directly in the desktop internet browser. Simply click the hyperlink "View", and then the PDF is open with your web browser.

Step 2: Here you are able to adjust the PDF to suit the screen, zoom in or zoom out. And in addition, searching for the text by clicking the "File" menu and selecting "Search the Document". Then enter the text in the search box.

Method 2 on How to View PDF Files in Gmail

Second, view PDF as plain html. For those who have attempted to view PDF by clicking the "View" link, then you definitely should have discovered that it comes with an option named as "Plain HTML" in the "View" menu once you open the PDF. This would mean you can view the PDF in Gmail as webpage.

Comparing the two modes of viewing PDF, I'd like the first mode. It lets me to modify the PDF. But additionally, all of the pages of the PDF file are listed in your local side bar, that makes it simple for me to select the page I would like.

Besides viewing PDF in Gmail, you can even manage PDF in Gmail. It can save you PDF straight to Google Docs with a single click or share the PDF with the public, friends or partners. You can also Edit PDF Files in Google Docs on Mac.

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