01 March 2015

Google Docs Viewer Page, No Longer Available



Google had a page that allowed you to quickly view documents online right from your browser. The Google Docs Viewer page was available at http://ift.tt/g0ekyj and http://ift.tt/1Br584j. You could enter a document URL and Google generated a link to view it. This worked for a lot of file types: Microsoft Office files, PDFs, PostScript files and more.






While the page is no longer available as it redirects to Google Docs/Drive, you can still use the Google Docs Viewer. Paste this URL in a new tab:



http://ift.tt/OBbN70



and then paste the address of the document you want to view online. Here's an example:



http://ift.tt/1Br5acb




The "embedded" parameter is still available: just add &embedded=true to the URL and the viewer will use an embedded mode interface. This is useful for embedding documents (use the <iframe> tag).



{ Thanks, +Sushubh Mittal. }