ed 
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Well, I thought I was being clever by adding a neat little script into my web pages which detects whether the user has a PDF viewer installed. If they don't they simply get forwarded to Google Docs to view the PDF on there. Thing is, Google Docs appears to be absolute crap - when you open a PDF on there it's all blurred and rubbish. Can anyone recommend a better alternative?
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John 
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Anything I try displays properly   
 
It can take a few seconds to render it again at the new zoom level but it's not blurred after that.
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Original: 
 
http://www.bvi.uk.com/bvi/media/files/1283718769-application-bvi-newpatientlinfo-v5--2010.pdf 
 
Google: 
 
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.bvi.uk.com/bvi/media/files/1283718769-application-bvi-newpatientlinfo-v5--2010.pdf 
 
Not sure if it's the quality of the original PDF's, which are probably a bit poor...
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John 
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I see what you mean on that one. 
 
The text is the same on both but the background is much lower quality in google docs.
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Richie 
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It looks ok to me - lower res on google docs but that's normal 
 
If you click view then fit to screen and wait a few secs - much better 
 
[Edited on 15-09-2010 by Richie]
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ed 
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Seems that it's the images that are letting it down, possibly due to the file being made in Word. I might offer to re-design the brochures while I'm at it. 
 
On a closer look, at least the text is rendering ok...
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