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I have to say I'm pretty blown away. I'm more or less the sole software engineer for a group of small local newspapers, and have been on the lookout for a system to replace our current flash-based e-edition reader.

Crocodoc is the first conversion service I've seen that actually properly renders our PDFs.

Sample: https://preview.crocodoc.com/view/183cbebf-8d01-4f5f-bb3a-5e...

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FYI: Your sample doc keeps crashing Mobile Safari on my v1 iPad, but the official preview (https://preview.crocodoc.com/) seems to work fine.

Interesting. I only checked it on a desktop and it was fine.

Hey guys - Peter here from Crocodoc. In the official release, pages on mobile devices will be lazy-loaded to prevent the pages from using too much memory like it does on this demo here.

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