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GrandView 2.0 manual scanned and posted
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Posted by 22111
Feb 27, 2014 at 06:27 PM
I get this instead,
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9gMeRwpi5mZZERpenNCVjlXQm4zV0YtU016cEdzdGN5Wjc4/edit?pli=1
but then, I don’t know what’s a “Goodle drive sphere”, and where to look for it?
Posted by 22111
Feb 27, 2014 at 06:28 PM
Google, of course, not Goodle, “good” being another concept not applying to Google imo.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 27, 2014 at 08:22 PM
You can download the file as a PDF: Just press CTRL+S or user the command “Herunterladen” in the “Datei” menu.
Posted by 22111
Mar 6, 2014 at 07:38 PM
Thank you for trying to help, Franz, but a download in FF gives a html file and the corresponding, newly created folder, as for any html page, with all the usual content for an html page’s elements, but NO pdf.
So it seems that what Google presents, and then lets you download, depends on your browser, or on other factors (and yes, in the “Save as” options, there are .txt formats and such for this, but no .pdf either).
Thus, even a simple pdf download can become impossible, with Google…
Btw, I then tried with IE8, and all I got, was a message, “You’re using a browser version that is not supported. blah blah”, and a dialog, “File not available.”
So I think I can now pretend the prob lies with Google (as I had expected from start on) - and no, I’m not re-installing Chrome now, since I had it de-installed because of its numerous behind-the-scenes “updates” which made me lost important functionality (but probably was needed, from their pov, for new NSAware to get installed).
So I’ll probably have to live without the proper pdf forever, but then, it was 1-pane anyway, right? ;-)
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 8, 2014 at 09:11 AM
This is strange. I use Firefox as my main browser. I clicked on the link you posted above and got the normal view I got with the original link. Sure enough, I could choose Download in the File menu appearing within the browser window:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/67rxfwcttghiz83/ScreenShot195.jpg
I wondered whether the issue was that I was logged in my Google account, so I logged out and refreshed. The only difference was that the File menu no longer included Print (PDF) as an option; I find that interesting by the way.
In all cases the download was a full and proper PDF. Indeed, as far as I know, Google Docs/Drive can convert office files like .docx and .xlsx to its native online format, but uploaded PDFs remain saved as PDFs.