Large google doc file view but not download

If you are previewing in Google Chrome or Firefox. If you are previewing in Microsoft Edge. If you are previewing in Apple Safari. Then you will find yourself inside the developer tools. So, if you want a high-quality pdf then try zooming out the pdf and then apply from steps 2 and below. Technical Concept:. Warning: For educational purposes only. Note that it may take a long time for downloading if the size of the pdf is large because each page in the pdf is generated in the form of an image.

Also, it doesn't guarantee the content quality of pdf remains the same. On-page load each Image tag on the page is search, and. Else if found: then with the help of Canvas those images are created with the drawImage function and here we are creating images in JPEG format and later these images are added back to pdf instance by addImage function. After that, with the help of addPage new page is created and the same repeats until reaching the end of the page and finally pdf is downloaded.

Open the view only pdf file in Google Drive in new window 2. Scroll to the bottom of the file so that every page will render 3. Open developer Tools on separate windows by pressing F12 and select Console Tab 4. Paste the following code in the console tab. Active 1 year ago.

Viewed 11k times. The file sizes are now shown in the Google Drive interface. Improve this question. Unfortunately, this appears to still be a problem. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Brad Mace Brad Mace 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Thanks but this is not what I'm looking for. When you upload documents PDFs or. In my case, I wasn't able to view a 12 MB Word. I see the progress bar as it tries to fetch the document but the activity stops after a few minutes without even displaying any message.

It appears that the Viewer cannot handle documents beyond a particular file size. So my question is, what is the maximum size of files that Google Docs Viewer can process? The referred help article doesn't mention the Google Drive viewer limits. Robert Grezan Robert Grezan 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. I have been logging results upon opening bulky files. When attempting to view a 39MB. The file exceeds the maximum size that we scan.