I'm OK with a quick download, honestly - as Gman mentioned the Gdocs
viewer can be incredibly slow by itself. Most of the PDFs I'm viewing
are under 500KB and would be quick downloads. Even if it just stuck it
in a temp folder and opened Preview, I'd be OK with that - I basically
just don't want the PDFs cluttering up my download folder, it better
fits my mental model to keep them attached to the message. (I assume
that means using the Safari PDF viewer isn't easy or doable, right?)

Finally, crazy idea here - what about a size-limited attachment view
cache? Say, 50MB, keeping the most recently used. That way it wouldn't
have to redownload if you view the same attachments frequently...

Again, not a huge inconvenience - just a few thoughts on one of my
most-used apps.

Rufo

On Nov 11, 2:15 am, Ruben Bakker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Rufo,
> Thanks for the feature request. Mailplane would need to download the PDF to
> view it, though. Depending on the internet connection speed and PDF size it
> could take some valuable time.
>
> See QuickLook 
> discussion:http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp/browse_thread/thread/c038...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Rufo Sanchez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Not sure how doable this is (or if it's desirable for anyone besides
> > me), but...
>
> > I find the Gmail PDF viewer fairly useless compared to OS X's PDF
> > capabilities. Regardless, for some reason my brain keeps clicking on
> > that link instead of Download - I think it's because I really don't
> > want to download it, just pop it open real quick. It would be great if
> > the View button could pop open a simple PDF viewing window that one
> > could take a look at. Nothing fancy - if it's easy to have the Safari
> > PDF viewer pop-up inside Mailplane, that would be more then adequate.
>
> > Just a thought, not a huge problem or worry.
>
>  Ruben Bakker // uncomplex gmbh // Switzerland // mailplaneapp.com //
> twitter <http://www.twitter.com/Mailplane>

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