While Gmail allows users to archive any mail they receive, it is sometimes safer to store important documents offline. This is where the ability to convert mail from Gmail into a PDF file come in ...

Researchers at security company Varonis have uncovered a crafty new Gmail phishing attack that not only masquerades as a PDF attachment, but automatically prompts victims to open it. The MatrixPDF ...

Let’s face it: PDF files aren’t exactly the fastest loading documents on the planet. Now, thanks to a new feature in Gmail, opening a PDF attachment doesn’t have to try your patience. Instead of ...

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People who use a Chromebook are likely familiar with at least a couple of common ways to work with the Portable Document Format (PDF) created by Adobe in 1993 that preserves a document’s layout and ...

Given that it's from Google, it's not surprising that Gmail has a powerful search feature. But until now, if your email had a third-party attachment, say a PDF or Word doc, it couldn't index that text ...

Gmail gets a handy update that lets you open PDFs using the Google Docs viewer. Gone is the option to open them up in HTML, but this is a good thing. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...