How to view properties of a PDF document opened in Chromium-based web browser?
Standalone PDF viewers such as SumatraPDF, MuPDF, Okular or PDFX-Change Editor allow to display PDF metadata and properties such as used fonts, size, date of creation, author etc., typically with a Ctrl + D hotkey.
However, I cannot figure out how to obtain the same info from the embedded PDF viewer in any of the Chromium-based web browsers. So far I tried Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and none of them seem to provide this feature out of the box.
Pressing Ctrl + D obviously doesn't work in browsers (adds page to bookmarks), and there is no UI elements to click on in order to retrieve the PDF metadata.
Is it possible to view properties of a PDF document without saving and reopening it in a standalone viewer?
google-chrome keyboard-shortcuts browser pdf chromium
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Standalone PDF viewers such as SumatraPDF, MuPDF, Okular or PDFX-Change Editor allow to display PDF metadata and properties such as used fonts, size, date of creation, author etc., typically with a Ctrl + D hotkey.
However, I cannot figure out how to obtain the same info from the embedded PDF viewer in any of the Chromium-based web browsers. So far I tried Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and none of them seem to provide this feature out of the box.
Pressing Ctrl + D obviously doesn't work in browsers (adds page to bookmarks), and there is no UI elements to click on in order to retrieve the PDF metadata.
Is it possible to view properties of a PDF document without saving and reopening it in a standalone viewer?
google-chrome keyboard-shortcuts browser pdf chromium
asked Dec 11 at 20:11
andselisk
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Standalone PDF viewers such as SumatraPDF, MuPDF, Okular or PDFX-Change Editor allow to display PDF metadata and properties such as used fonts, size, date of creation, author etc., typically with a Ctrl + D hotkey.
However, I cannot figure out how to obtain the same info from the embedded PDF viewer in any of the Chromium-based web browsers. So far I tried Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and none of them seem to provide this feature out of the box.
Pressing Ctrl + D obviously doesn't work in browsers (adds page to bookmarks), and there is no UI elements to click on in order to retrieve the PDF metadata.
Is it possible to view properties of a PDF document without saving and reopening it in a standalone viewer?
google-chrome keyboard-shortcuts browser pdf chromium
asked Dec 11 at 20:11
andselisk
232215
Standalone PDF viewers such as SumatraPDF, MuPDF, Okular or PDFX-Change Editor allow to display PDF metadata and properties such as used fonts, size, date of creation, author etc., typically with a Ctrl + D hotkey.
However, I cannot figure out how to obtain the same info from the embedded PDF viewer in any of the Chromium-based web browsers. So far I tried Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and none of them seem to provide this feature out of the box.
Pressing Ctrl + D obviously doesn't work in browsers (adds page to bookmarks), and there is no UI elements to click on in order to retrieve the PDF metadata.
Is it possible to view properties of a PDF document without saving and reopening it in a standalone viewer?
google-chrome keyboard-shortcuts browser pdf chromium
google-chrome keyboard-shortcuts browser pdf chromium
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No.
This has been documented at No way to view document properties for PDFs in the Chromium bug list ever since 2011, and it's available to any volunteer coder to add the missing feature. There's also an unanswered request for it at the Chrome Product Forum.
Two extensions which say they offer this, PDF Meta-Data and PDF Saver would not deliver PDF metadata when tested with http://unec.edu.az/application/uploads/2014/12/pdf-sample.pdf and PDFs from my own drive.
answered Dec 11 at 22:23
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As a workaround, one can substitute Chromium PDF viewer with Mozilla's PDF.js via corresponding extension. In this case, by clicking Tools -> Document Properties... one can retrieve basic info:
There are few downsides I think worth mentioning:
- Overall performance is subjectively worse (even with enabled WebGL). Scrolling and scaling are slower, font rendering is somewhat choppy.
- Chromium's yellow tick marks on the scrollbar won't show up when searching the PDF document.
- Address bar is populated with an uninformative
chrome-extention://...string instead of the actual URL.
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This has been documented at No way to view document properties for PDFs in the Chromium bug list ever since 2011, and it's available to any volunteer coder to add the missing feature. There's also an unanswered request for it at the Chrome Product Forum.
Two extensions which say they offer this, PDF Meta-Data and PDF Saver would not deliver PDF metadata when tested with http://unec.edu.az/application/uploads/2014/12/pdf-sample.pdf and PDFs from my own drive.
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No.
This has been documented at No way to view document properties for PDFs in the Chromium bug list ever since 2011, and it's available to any volunteer coder to add the missing feature. There's also an unanswered request for it at the Chrome Product Forum.
Two extensions which say they offer this, PDF Meta-Data and PDF Saver would not deliver PDF metadata when tested with http://unec.edu.az/application/uploads/2014/12/pdf-sample.pdf and PDFs from my own drive.
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No.
This has been documented at No way to view document properties for PDFs in the Chromium bug list ever since 2011, and it's available to any volunteer coder to add the missing feature. There's also an unanswered request for it at the Chrome Product Forum.
Two extensions which say they offer this, PDF Meta-Data and PDF Saver would not deliver PDF metadata when tested with http://unec.edu.az/application/uploads/2014/12/pdf-sample.pdf and PDFs from my own drive.
answered Dec 11 at 22:23
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No.
This has been documented at No way to view document properties for PDFs in the Chromium bug list ever since 2011, and it's available to any volunteer coder to add the missing feature. There's also an unanswered request for it at the Chrome Product Forum.
Two extensions which say they offer this, PDF Meta-Data and PDF Saver would not deliver PDF metadata when tested with http://unec.edu.az/application/uploads/2014/12/pdf-sample.pdf and PDFs from my own drive.
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As a workaround, one can substitute Chromium PDF viewer with Mozilla's PDF.js via corresponding extension. In this case, by clicking Tools -> Document Properties... one can retrieve basic info:
There are few downsides I think worth mentioning:
- Overall performance is subjectively worse (even with enabled WebGL). Scrolling and scaling are slower, font rendering is somewhat choppy.
- Chromium's yellow tick marks on the scrollbar won't show up when searching the PDF document.
- Address bar is populated with an uninformative
chrome-extention://...string instead of the actual URL.
answered Dec 13 at 17:21
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As a workaround, one can substitute Chromium PDF viewer with Mozilla's PDF.js via corresponding extension. In this case, by clicking Tools -> Document Properties... one can retrieve basic info:
There are few downsides I think worth mentioning:
- Overall performance is subjectively worse (even with enabled WebGL). Scrolling and scaling are slower, font rendering is somewhat choppy.
- Chromium's yellow tick marks on the scrollbar won't show up when searching the PDF document.
- Address bar is populated with an uninformative
chrome-extention://...string instead of the actual URL.
answered Dec 13 at 17:21
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As a workaround, one can substitute Chromium PDF viewer with Mozilla's PDF.js via corresponding extension. In this case, by clicking Tools -> Document Properties... one can retrieve basic info:
There are few downsides I think worth mentioning:
- Overall performance is subjectively worse (even with enabled WebGL). Scrolling and scaling are slower, font rendering is somewhat choppy.
- Chromium's yellow tick marks on the scrollbar won't show up when searching the PDF document.
- Address bar is populated with an uninformative
chrome-extention://...string instead of the actual URL.
answered Dec 13 at 17:21
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As a workaround, one can substitute Chromium PDF viewer with Mozilla's PDF.js via corresponding extension. In this case, by clicking Tools -> Document Properties... one can retrieve basic info:
There are few downsides I think worth mentioning:
- Overall performance is subjectively worse (even with enabled WebGL). Scrolling and scaling are slower, font rendering is somewhat choppy.
- Chromium's yellow tick marks on the scrollbar won't show up when searching the PDF document.
- Address bar is populated with an uninformative
chrome-extention://...string instead of the actual URL.
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