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IIRC, Dropbox uses Crocodoc for their online PDF previews. Might get awkward.

It's a shame, since Crocodoc seemed way better than anything else out there for doing HTML5 previews.

CEO of Crocodoc here. Crocodoc's API will remain a stand-alone offering as part of the Box platform, and we're going to be investing heavily in making our service even better! Nothing's going away, and we'll continue to support all of our existing (and new) customers.

This is the way to do it. Not every acquisition means that customers lose.

It is indeed. I believe that their API will remain up and be used by many, but it probably won't be used by DropBox for long. Classy move by their CEO to make it clear that DropBox is welcome to use it.

Is this agreed on, and properly documented? Or is it just your words against Box that very soon will become your owner and can do whatever the hell they want to, including shutting you down (if some insane people are in charge [this happened before]).

Congrats on creating a great product. Add watermarking please!

I was hoping that Dropbox acquires Crocodoc and use them for online document editing. That would free me from using google docs for anything.

PDF.js is awesome and works remarkably well.

Does it support .doc, .docx, .ppt, etc?

This is going to sound like I'm trolling you, but pdf.js only supports PDFs. You'll need to convert those other doc types to PDFs before using them with pdf.js.

Can you recommend any tools for this? LibreOffice butchers XLS files.

You can try MS office. If you dont want to buy/install it you can just use the in browser version. All you need is a MS account and you can also export the files as pdf..

An alternative is the embedded version of the Google Docs viewer.

Yea they do, wonder how fast they will drop support for it (and build their own)

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