Nice!
For someone unfamiliar, can you explain why someone would host PDFs? Are there any organisations that already do this?
Also, what would be the difference between this and pdf.js (e.g. Firefox viewer) when it comes to the viewer?
In short: Managing and consuming PDFs seamlessly on multiple devices. You can continue reading on your mobile device were you stopped reading on your laptop. I started implementing the app as there was no other app that satisfied my requirements:
Surprisingly, there was no solution available that could do this. In the following I’ll list the available alternatives and how they compare to my requirements.
Wait is this like what onbase does?
Nicee!! Happy for ya, and for everyone else using your solution
That goes straight into my bookmarks! I’ll look into this later but it looks very nice and promising.
Ooh, does anyone know of something like this which can show 3 pages at once?
Thinking of replacing the music app on an old mac mini and using a hdmi stick/pi to display it instead.
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