Advertisement The next time you have to fill out a form in a PDF or split a PDF’s pages, you don’t need to dig around for your Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader or web app to do the job. As long as you have installed, that’s all you need.
Chrome comes with a built-in PDF Viewer tool that can be used to do a lot more than just read PDF files. Sure, it’s not as powerful as PDFSam, short for “PDF Split and Merge,” is a great utility for quick PDF editing. You can combine multiple PDF documents into a single PDF document, split a PDF into multiple files, extract pages from.
And there are a few. Still, as a quick-fix solution, Chrome is perfect. You first need to check if you have enabled PDF Viewer in Chrome. Head to the Omnibox and type: chrome://plugins If you see ‘Disable’ as a link under Chrome PDF Viewer, it’s already switched on. If you see ‘Enable’, click that and restart the browser.
May 03, 2017 Hmm. I'm not sure on that one. I just installed XP from scratch today and installed all of the Windows updates including.net 1, 2, 3, and 3.5 and Chrome's print preview work. Maybe Chrome wants.Net 3 and not 3.5. You could also try turning off Chrome's print preview all together using a flag. This web page has a good write up on the matter.
The Chrome PDF Viewer can be used to read any PDF, whether online or stored locally. For local files, open a new tab and drag-and-drop the document. With that out of the way, let’s see what you can do with this handy utility. Split Pages Suppose you have a PDF file with 20 pages and you only want pages 2, 7, 11, 12 and 13. Open the file in Chrome PDF Viewer and take your mouse to the bottom-right corner.
A toolbar will show up with options to fit the page horizontally or vertically, zoom in and out, save the PDF and Print Options. Click the last icon, i.e. Print Options.
Hit the ‘Change’ button under Destination and in the menu, choose ‘Save As PDF’. Now, in the Pages, choose the second option and type the numbers of the pages you want in the new document, separating them by commas and specifying ranges with a dash. So for example, for the above document, you would write “2, 7, 11-13”. Click the Save button and download a new PDF to your hard drive which has only the pages you want. Fill Out Forms And Save Them If you need to fill out a PDF form — which most government documents require you to — it can be done easily through the Chrome PDF Viewer.
Not only is it faster, but it also looks more professional. Open the fillable form in Chrome and just start typing. It really is as simple as that. Chrome smartly detects spaces to fill out and lets you type there. However, this isn’t a foolproof method and there are some forms Chrome can’t detect.
For example, I tried it with an Indian railway form where half the text was in Hindi and it didn’t work. Still, the bigger problem is saving the form after you are done. If you hit the “Save” button in the toolbar, it will just save the blank original PDF without the text you entered. To save the text, you need to again hit the Print option, choose ‘Save as PDF’ in the Destination and click Save to download the filled out form. Rotate Document Need to change the orientation of any PDF?
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This is a hidden gem in Chrome PDF Viewer that not many are aware of. Open a PDF in a new tab and right click anywhere in the document. In the context menu, you will see options to ‘Rotate clockwise’ and ‘Rotate counterclockwise’. Choose what you want to do, and save the file through the Print - Save as PDF - Save method mentioned earlier. The only problem is that this will rotate the whole document and not individual pages. But by using this with the ‘Split Pages’ trick above, you can get your desired effect easily.
Save Web Pages As PDF The Chrome PDF Viewer can also be used to save any web page as a PDF file for you to read later or offline. Hit Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on a Mac) to bring up the Print options. Choose the pages you want, layout (portrait/landscape), whether you want to include headers, footers, background colours and images, and set the margin.
The ability to set custom margins is a pretty cool feature here. Once you’re done, again, use the Print - Save as PDF - Save method to download the file to your hard drive. The One Missing Feature As you can see, the Chrome PDF Viewer has a lot of functionality you probably didn’t know about for something that comes packaged as a core feature of product. But there’s still one thing I wish it had: the ability the sign documents.
I love that I can fill out forms, but so many of them require a signature and I still have to turn to a solution like for that. So if there was one feature you would want in the Chrome PDF Viewer, what would that be? And if you have any cool uses for the PDF Viewer that we didn’t list here, let us know in the comments!
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Have you ever had to waste paper trying to get an online document to print correctly? Maybe there’s extra information in the margins you just don’t need.
Or the page is in the wrong aspect. You can control how your document prints by changing the print settings in Chrome. Access the print settings To access the Chrome print settings, click on the “Chrome settings” button.
It’s in the right-hand corner of the menubar. In Windows, it looks like a wrench, and on a Mac, it has three horizontal bars. Then select “Print” from the pop-out menu. The print settings screen has a print preview on the right and the printer settings on the left. When you change the printer settings the preview will change as well. Choose your printer To change the printer, you want to print to click the “Change” button. You can select to print from a different printer to a PDF document or using Google Drive.
Select the number of pages If you want to print the whole document, leave the “All” radio button selected. But if you only want to print a page or range of pages type them into the text area below. Print extra copies If you want to print more than one copy, use the “+” button, or type in the number of copies. Paper layout Documents print in portrait layout by default. But if you need to print in landscape, common for spreadsheets and airline tickets, select “Landscape.” Change the margins If you need to adjust the default margins that Chrome applies, click the drop-down box and select the correct margin. Check the change in the preview until you have it correct. If you choose a custom margin, you can resize the margin by dragging them in the preview.
Headers, footers, and background colors The headers and footer of an online document usually display the Web address but could also display other information. If you don’t need this in your print out uncheck “Headers and Footers.” If you don’t want to keep the “ Background colors and images” box unchecked.
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System print settings And if Chrome’s print settings aren’t enough to get the document to look the way you need it to click “Print using system dialog.” This will take you to the Windows or OS X print settings dialog window. Conclusion By changing these settings you’ll be able to print any online document and make it look great.