Flash pdf viewer : free online PDF viewer pdfmenot

Flash pdf viewer is now free online PDF viewer pdfmenot,to view PDF files on your computer, you need Adobe Reader software that’s absolutely free and is available for almost all platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux.

Adobe PDF is one of the most popular formats for exchanging documents on the web. PDF files look the same on every computer, are print ready and cannot be tampered with – that’s the reason why most Instruction manuals, ebooks, invoices, etc are distributed as PDFs.

But there’s a small problem – the PDF file must be on your local hard drive for Adobe Reader to open it. You cannot open an online PDF file inside Adobe Reader without downloading it locally.

Convert PDF Files to SWF Flash Movies with pdfmenot :

Here’s how to create Flash movies from PDF documents:

1. Go to PDFMeNot.com (Username: stateless Password: systems) and type the URL of the PDF file – you can use this PDF link as an example. Alternatively upload a PDF from the local hard drive.

2. In your Firefox menu bar, click Tools -> Page Info -> Media. Select the object that has an SWF extension (e.g. pdfmenot.com/store/f6a29535da98cd1.swf)  and save it to your disk. That’s the SWF file created from your PDF document. For IE, here’s the trick to save Flash locally.

Bloggers can embed the following JS code in their web templates and PDF links will open in Flash SWF format via PDFMeNot.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://pdfmenot.com/convert.js”></script>

To Save Flash Locally Steps to be followed are :

Saving Flash files from Firefox

Firefox for Newbies
a. Click Tools – Page Info
b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows
c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page.
d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file.
e. Click the “Save As” button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file (No need for a third-party plug-in)

Firefox for Geeks and Power Users
a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar
b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device)
c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL
d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose “Save link as”

How to save flash in IE browser

a. Click Tools – Internet Options
b. In the General Tab, click the Settings button available in the Temporary Internet Files group.
c. Click View Files to open your Temporary Internet Files folder. Depending upon your IE settings, the Temp. folder can contain tens of thousands of files.
d. Click View – Details. Now click View – Arrange Icons By – Internet Address. Depending upon the webpage, there could one or more Flash files (Shockwave Flash Object) under the Inernet Address.
e. Once you find the right flash file, right-click and choose Copy. Then paste the swf file in any other directory. Be sure to
keep the page and IE open to avoid purging of the cache file.

For newbies, I suggest the following approaches:
1. Get a download accelerator like Flashget and tell it to automatically download the shockwave extention (*.swf)
2. Or download a free IE plug-in for saving flash files.

How to save Flash files from Opera or Google Chromebrowser
Just like IE, these browsers store the flash files in the browser cache.

While PDFMeNot is an extremely convenient option for quickly viewing PDF files in the browser without loading Adobe Reader, the downside is that the generated SWF objects contains Zoom but no Print and Search function. They are all supported in Macromedia Flash Paper format used by Scribd.

There’s however a very elegant solution to this problem called PDFMeNot– an online service that lets you read PDF files inside the browser without Adobe Reader.

With PDFMeNot, you can view any online PDF file in the browser without having to download that file locally.  The service is also handy if you don’t have Adobe Reader on the computer – just upload your PDF to PDFMeNot and read it in the browser.