View instead of download PDFs

[domoritz]

It would be great if one could view PDFs in the browser instead of having to download them before viewing them. Viewing seems to be the standard behavior of most services that serve PDFs so the behavior of osf is breaking the expected UX.

[Johnetordoff]

I'm not sure what part of the site you are referring to. All preprints uploaded to the OSF can be rendered in browser, here's a public one if you're unsure exactly where this feature is located. Generally clicking on the file's name will take you the above file detail page.

[domoritz]

Thanks for getting back to me. I didn't clearly describe what I'm asking for so here are a few more details. Please let me know if I can describe something in more detail.

Clicking the download button will download the PDF rather than opening it full screen in the browser.

This is especially problematic if you are accessing the file directly for example on google scholar.