Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· dedenf

online PDF viewing

There are many security concern about PDFs, there's malware, malicious code that contaminated the file and some other security issues. to tackle those issues, use google docs viewer.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=[url-to-pdf-file]

i think it's much safer than opening the file on your local computer.

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