> It appears the pdf files cannot be uploaded?
> How can one share the pdf files generated by google docs?

> This seems a perfect solution for me and my small company,
> but the lack of or lopsided pdf support makes it almost useless
> to us. Hope I'm wrong and am just missing something.

> However, Juniper Berry, even a fast and dirty search through Help
> suggests strongly that a fat percentage of Gmail/Google Doc users are
> dismayed and incredulous to learn that G Docs, for all its vaunted
> improvements, still fails to provide even simple storage of PDF
> documents.

> Since becoming one of the original Gmail and Google Docs users way
> back in the beta-beta days, it has been a continuing source of
> confusion and irritation to me that we STILL can't even upload PDF's
> to Google Docs.  I'd abandon both my Apple email client and the
> dreaded Windoze Outlook in a heartbeat if I knew I could upload PDF's.

> For those of us with laptops and iPhones, etc., etc. it would rock, to
> offload as much as possible onto the web and having sharing
> capabilities with our clients and colleagues for ALL our docs, not
> just a select few.  In the professional, business, and government
> communities, PDF's are the transmission document of choice.  Not
> concerned that I wouldn't be able to edit or comment the PDF within G
> Docs -- can handle those issues by any number of other means on a
> document-by-document basis.  But Ode To Joy if I could just hand them
> off to G Doc to hold until I'm ready to use them.

> If you're listening O Great Google Demi-Gods, we supplicate thee for
> PDF storage!!

> Currently Google Docs can not be used to *store* files. All files
> uploaded become *converted* to Google Docs internal formats. As a
> result some (in all cases too much) formatting will get lost in the
> conversion process. The same may happen when a file is downloaded/
> exported/saved again to ine's computer.
> The fact that documents are converted, currently makes it not possible
> to use Google Docs as a generic storage facility. For that one would
> need the still not implemented 'Google Drive', or existing solutions
> but by other parties like the free, 50 GB, Adrive (www.adrive.com).

> On Apr 23, 7:55 pm, JAVA4DIVA wrote:

> > However, Juniper Berry, even a fast and dirty search through Help
> > suggests strongly that a fat percentage of Gmail/Google Doc users are
> > dismayed and incredulous to learn that G Docs, for all its vaunted
> > improvements, still fails to provide even simple storage ofPDF
> > documents.

> > Since becoming one of the original Gmail and Google Docs users way
> > back in the beta-beta days, it has been a continuing source of
> > confusion and irritation to me that we STILL can't even uploadPDF's
> > to Google Docs.  I'd abandon both my Apple email client and the
> > dreaded Windoze Outlook in a heartbeat if I knew I could uploadPDF's.

> > For those of us with laptops and iPhones, etc., etc. it would rock, to
> > offload as much as possible onto the web and having sharing
> > capabilities with our clients and colleagues for ALL our docs, not
> > just a select few.  In the professional, business, and government
> > communities,PDF'sare the transmission document of choice.  Not
> > concerned that I wouldn't be able to edit or comment thePDFwithin G
> > Docs -- can handle those issues by any number of other means on a
> > document-by-document basis.  But Ode To Joy if I could just hand them
> > off to G Doc to hold until I'm ready to use them.

> > If you're listening O Great Google Demi-Gods, we supplicate thee for
> >PDFstorage!!