Upload your PDFs!
June 13th, 2008 | Published in Google Docs
Jen Mazzon, Product Manager
I spend a good chunk of time each week combing our Google Docs Help group, where users share questions and information with each other, and with me! (You'll see me as Google Guide Jenmazz in the group.) The questions people ask tell me how we need to clarify and simplify, and what we need to enhance and build in Google Docs.
Here's a common request:
To get started, click the Upload button in the Docs home toolbar, select a PDF file from your computer and off you go!
I spend a good chunk of time each week combing our Google Docs Help group, where users share questions and information with each other, and with me! (You'll see me as Google Guide Jenmazz in the group.) The questions people ask tell me how we need to clarify and simplify, and what we need to enhance and build in Google Docs.
Here's a common request:
"I'd like to use Google Docs to share information in PDFs for
discussion & for download, especially (though not exclusively)
with those who can edit PDFs."
discussion & for download, especially (though not exclusively)
with those who can edit PDFs."
"Hey Google! this is a serious setback. Why no PDF uploads?
Let's get on this already."
"If you're listening O Great Google Demi-Gods, we supplicate
thee for PDF storage!!"
And so... I'm very pleased to confirm that you can now upload, preview and share PDFs in Google Docs. (While you can't edit them yet, you can copy & paste text.) We eagerly await your feedback on this highly requested feature.Let's get on this already."
"If you're listening O Great Google Demi-Gods, we supplicate
thee for PDF storage!!"
To get started, click the Upload button in the Docs home toolbar, select a PDF file from your computer and off you go!