Summary:

• We convert your PDF file to iPaper
• You view the PDF file via an HTML proxy file.
• You can share the PDF report by sharing access to the HTML proxy file.
• Its free!
• Supports large PDF files (up to 10 meg)
• No Sign-up required.
• Gives you secure acccess to your document from Google Docs.

Background

Google Docs is an amazing technology: You can edit and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations using only your browser. It is the cornerstone of the Google Apps architecture, and is already paving the way for a completely different type of experience for most of us.

But there is one glaring limitation: you cannot store or distribute any PDF documents! This means that if you want to share a PDF report with other workers, you have to find somewhere else to store it. To be fair, Google Apps and the new Google Pages will allow you to store any type of document, but then you lose the tight security integration of Google Docs.

The Solution:

Our Publisher for Google Docs solves this problem. You can now easily publish a secure link to your PDF files directly into Google Docs!

Here is how it works:

1. You upload your file to our free online service.
2. We convert your file to a special format called iPaper - kind of like a super-charged PDF viewer
3. We generate an HTML file with the secrest link code to you file,
4. You upload this html file to your Google Docs account using a URL that we generate.
5. You can share this HTML with the same users that you share your online documents with.
6. You can set the share mode to collaborate or view only.

To view your PDF file, you click on the HTML Proxy file which has a hyperlink to the iPaper version of your PDF file. (The PDF file itself is discarded in the publishing process)

Screen shots

1. Upload your PDF File to our web site:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Copy HTML File URL to the clipboard

 

 3. Upload new HTML document in Google Apps

 4. View HTML page in Google Apps

 5 View the PDF File using iPaper

 That's it!  Now you can share the HTML 'Proxy' file with the same people you share your documents and spreadsheet. Google Docs controls access to the HTML file, which has the secret codes to access the report. So if you can see the HTML file, you will be able to access the report. The HTML file can be shared in view-only or colloboration mode.

So what's the catch?

There isn't one! There is no cost to use our service, and you can upload as many documents as you want. Your documents are actually stored on another Web 2.0 application called Scribd, which invented the cool iPaper technology.

Here are the FAQs about this technology