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by latexr 530 days ago
This just embeds a PDF on a webpage. What’s the difference to simply hosting a PDF publicly, seeing as any major browser today displays PDFs anyway?
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technically, yes, it just display PDF on a webpage. It's faster to load (compared to G Drive) and the URL is owned by the user.
using G Drive, One Drive, etc, the URL is usually hard to remember