I have been using Firefox on the Mac for a long, long time. I j9ust now realized that when I click on PDF links, they get downloaded to ~/Downloads. This makes it more onerous to send a link to someone. On Windows, my workflow us to view the PDF in-line to be sure it’s the one I want to send and copy/paste the address. On the Mac, clicking downloaded the file and right-clicking and selecting “Copy hyperlink” sometimes requires a leap of faith that I got the right PDF. To be sure, I would often click, look at the PDF to be sure it’s the one I want, then hit right-click on the link.
So, I googled and found the most popular PDF viewer, Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac.
My only problem with it is that there aren’t too many keyboard shortcuts that I can detect. In Acrobat, I like the ability to start zooming and panning by hitting keys with my left hand and manipulating with the right. I could not find any documentation on the project site and I searched the source code and couldn’t find any mention of keyboard shortcuts. So, I’ll probably suggest this to the author. Would be a fun project to contribute to the project by adding them myself… but my Objective-C skills are very weak. Something on my to-do list.
By the way, searching the source code is a cool feature of code hosted on code.google.com. Too bad it uses svn and not git. Although searching github is not so easy/good.
If you’re interested in viewing PDF’s in-line and you’re on a Mac, go and get the plugin. If you know of another way to do this, let me know by leaving a comment!