amigo97 - I understand what you're getting at, but this feature seems like it would be a "fringe" case - I think that many people are used to downloading PDF's and viewing them without a preview, and I'm betting that most users wouldn't be sharing large amounts of PDF's.

As far as I know, pretty much every browser (including Safari) allows you to "preview" the PDF within a browser tab. That does require you to download the file, though.

Basically, what you're asking for is a "Quick Look" type feature for the My.Pogoplug website, that would allow you to read the PDF (or a portion of it) before downloading. That would be a cool feature, but the My.Pogoplug web based client doesn't do this. I'm thinking it would slow down the client quite a bit, much more so than a picture preview, but I could be wrong.

Interestingly, the iPhone Pogoplug client has this (sort-of) built-in. I just tried it and indeed, I was able to read the PDF before "downloading" it to my phone.

(On a side note, I'm moving this to the "feature requests" forum.)

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You would be better off just sharing these files using RSS. That way when the ones you share the files with want to look at them the RSS page works just like any other webpage. They don't need to use the my.Pogoplug site too.

Also if you want to create your own website or blog that shows these files you can use RSS and make it look very seamless.

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