This is an online viewer, with which you can view PDF and PostScript files as browsable images and Word documents as web pages. Given a URL on the net or a file on your computer, the viewer will try to retrieve the document, convert it and show it to you. No plugin software is required.
The viewer software is open source, licensed under the GNU Public License.
Version 0.3 of the software can be downloaded here: psview-0.3.tar.gz
History:
The viewer grew out of frustration over there never being good PDF or PostScript viewers or readers on all different operating systems and computers I use. Initially, the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader wasn't available for Linux.
The solution: a web interface! All major operating systems have somewhat functional web browsers available, so now I can view PDF and PostScript files wherever I want, and it can handle compressed files too.
Todo:
Better user interface
Convert to different formats
Page layout
Better error messages
Better feedback
Increase speed (possibly by only converting pages on demand, instead of converting all like now)
View documents in more than 256 colors
Page zoom
Bookmarklet, Greasemonkey inline link translation
FAQ:
Q: How long will my document be available? A: Documents are cleared from the viewer three days after they where last viewed. The cache may be purged more often.
Q: Will it install under Windows? A: Beats me! I've heard several people try, but I don't know if they've ever succeeded.
Q: What makes these features possible? A: In one word: Open Source (oops! that was two words...). In several words: Ghostscript, php, wvWare, Apache, ImageMagick, gnu wget, gnu zip, Linux and so on.
