[Web4lib] Online viewers around the web

[Richard Wiggins]

Recently I was in Lake Louise, a village in the Canadian Rockies, and my 
only Internet access was a coin-operated machine -- one "Looney" buys 10 
minutes of Web access. It got me to thinking about Web possibilities, when 
Google or someone delivers Web-based apps to do basic office functions, and 
all you need is a Web browser to compose a Word doc or edit your Powerpoint 
presentation. Imagine being able to log in at any cybercafe or over any 
device and resume your latest project. Sun used to say "the network is the 
computer" -- maybe we're finally close to that vision.
 Anyhow, I suppose the most famous and visible PDF translator is Google, 
with "View as HTML" from their cache. In years past, I used to encounter raw 
Postscript a lot more than lately. Some communities, such as computer 
science folks, like to distribute things in Postscript, probably because 
they have ready access to Ghostscript and such tools. Personally I think one 
should publish formatted printable documents as PDF.
 /rich

 On 6/23/05, Don Saklad <dsaklad at gnu.org> wrote: 
> 
> Where are there any other online viewers around the web?...
> besides http://view.samurajdata.se/
> 
> It's convenient not to have put stuff onto a computer
> just to read the stuff !
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