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Greasemonkey script to de-scribd HN PDFs

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Scribd'ing of the PDFs should be a per-account config option.

I don't mind if it's enabled by default (Scribd being backed by YC and all that), but please allow me to disable this rather annoying feature.

PDFs actually load faster than the equivalent Scribd pages on my machine. Not sure why is this.

Same here. And the "Streaming document" progress bar is kind of irritating IMHO

Guys, I have a better idea. Let's make a patch for the hacker news source to give both options and submit it to PG.

If you know arc (or want to learn) and are interested in doing this, email me at jared@scribd.

Not to hijack, but my blacklist script does this too, if you want a blacklist and a searchyc box as well.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

Love it - posted about it earlier this week actually :)

That's cool. If I had known about yours, I probably wouldn't have bothered, though it was kind of fun learning about Greasemonkey.

I made it in response to the comments here. It's kind of sad that for all the hacker/entrepreneurial spirit here, the default reaction is basically "try asking one more time" (there's even a couple of those in the comments on this post!). We had a poll, and people overwhelmingly voted to at least make it optional, so it's not like they don't know what we want.

So I did something about it. I'm tired of reading endless "Something should be done!" comments, when it's completely in our power to do Something. Here's a Something. You made a Something, too, so I respect that.

> though it was kind of fun learning about Greasemonkey

Pretty much the only reason I did this too. ;)

Scribding PDFs here is the new page framing. Imagine if every link you submitted appears in a frame with some ads at the top? That would be annoying (and so 1996), I don't see the Scribd thing any differently here. I have _no_ problem downloading PDFs.

Yea, _pretty_ sure that's what the Adobe Reader plugin is for...

Is this your script? http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26925

If it is, in the future, I'd suggest linking us directly to userscripts.org instead of to a .js. I think that you'll find people are perhaps squeamish about links to a .js file.

no, the link you posted is my script.

Cool, thanks. This works on Opera too! (user javascript)

i like it where it shows it as an element in the page. but for large-screen viewing pdf viewer is better. maybe the autoscribding could show a link to the scribd page (eg http://www.scribd.com/doc/1469514/TOM-JERRY-dibuixos-per-pin...) instead of the full-screen thingie

Cool. Now if you could just convert the PDF to HTML, you'd have something there.

There's a Firefox extension to view PDFs as HTML.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636

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