I would like to share pdf in google drive but even with featurs of preventing downloading and printing still can download it image by image that's why i thought to use another way after some research I found pdf2htmlEX so after i convert my pdf to html I upload it in google drive but when i wanted to opended it's appear as html code not as pdf
any help to solve that issue and any idea to share pdf without be downloadble image by image
It sounds like you're trying to secure your PDF and keep people from downloading/screenshotting its contents. Unfortunately, even if you successfully convert the PDF to HTML, people will still be able to view and therefore download/screenshot the contents. It's hard to prevent piracy.
As for the issue regarding your HTML files displaying as HTML in Google Drive, Google Drive doesn't support this. Google Drive no longer renders HTML files as of August 31, 2015:
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2015/08/deprecating-web-hosting-support-in.html
If you're looking for a way to secure your PDF, most people will tell you that the simple answer is: you can't. Tools exist that help prevent screen recording and screen printing, but they're expensive and not foolproof. Someone can also just take a picture of their screen. The reality is that if you want to share content with the world through a PDF, you have to accept that it might be shared or stolen.
If you just want some basic protection through Google Drive, Google offers some advice for preventing copying and downloading:
To prevent commenters and viewers from downloading, printing, or
copying your file:
Click Share or Share Add people.
In the bottom right, click Advanced.
Check the box next to "Disable options to download, print,
and copy for commenters and viewers."
Click Save changes.
Click Done.
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I have a document in my Google drive, which I want somebody else to download from a Google Sites website I have created. But I don't want the person viewing the document to know my identity, and I don't want to be able to know the identity of anybody viewing the document. This is because the document is part of a paper submission to an academic conference, where the reviewers will be downloading and viewing this document, and the conference requires strict anonymity between the authors and the reviewers.
I have created a public link to the document on my Google Sites webpage, so that anybody who visits the webpage can download the file. And I have tried logging out of my Google account, and downloading the file, which shows no sign of my name. But I would just like to double check that if anybody downloads this file, they will definitely not be able to know my identity (e.g. my Google account name). I know that there may be ways to find out the document's author by looking in the meta-data, but I have been careful with this already. I am specifically interested to know if there is any loss of anonymity by sharing the link through Google Drive.
Here are the specific steps I took to make the document available for download:
Created a Google Sites webpage
Created a document called "test_document.pdf"
Uploaded this document to my Google Drive
In Google Drive, after clicking on this document, I did Share->Get Link->Anyone on the internet with this link can view->Copy link.
In my Google Sites webpage, I create text saying "Download document here"
After highlighting this text, I clicked on "Insert link".
I then pasted the link from before.
When viewing the webpage, you can then click on the "Download document here" text, and it downloads the document, and saves is as file "test_document.pdf".
I have found the answer myself, which is Yes, downloading a document from Google Drive can reveal the document's owner. If you open the document within the Google Drive environment, and then click on the three buttons, then click on Details, it reveals who the owner is. If you just download the file without inspecting the details within Google Drive, then it doesn't reveal the owner, but I don't know how to force a direct download without allowing somebody to open the file within Google Drive.
I'm using Microsoft's One Drive to share an Excel workbook by embedding it into a web page using the iframe tag.
I've got the code that One Drive provides and it displays fine on the page. However, it's possible for a user to click the icon in the black bar at the bottom and view the Workbook full screen.
I don't have a problem with that, but it then gives the option to download, copy and share the entire file and that is a problem.
I've found parameters that can be used with the workbook link such as wdHideGridlines, but is there anything that will get rid of that black bar? Or anything that will stop someone downloading the file?
It seems that you can embed a file with OneDrive and it's open for all, or you can use the 'share' option and get a view-only link, but I can't seem to embed that link - it displays an Excel icon for the workbook rather than a view of the data.
I hope this makes sense, if anyone can help I'd be grateful.
At the moment, the only way to prevent the download is to hide the download command on the web page with CSS.
Cast your vote in this user voice idea. https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/274580-excel-online/suggestions/19274656-remove-the-download-option
If it gets sufficient votes, Microsoft will consider implementing it.
How can I preview an HTML file on Google Drive? I did a bit of research and it seems hosting HTML has been deprecated by Google in 2016. I tried to open the direct link of the HTML file but it downloads it and doesn't display it. Any workaround ?
Thanks :D
Ironically Google, a company built on html, still has no good solutions for handling .html files on Drive: I'm web developer! If you create a .html file within any text editor (Mac, Linux or MS) and save it with a .html extension (e.g. test.html), that file is now a Browser file, not a text or Doc file. G-Drive was created to be a cloud replacement for MS Office suite of products (Word, Excel, and so forth). It will even save a .txt (or text) file, and display it back as such.
However, a file dropped in Drive (via the Chrome browser) with a .html extension; if you simply click on it, it will be opened by/in Docs, and displayed therein as a web page (and poorly too, since it cannot connect to the styling of the .css file). If you right-click on it, and select "display", it will give a similar display only without opening it in Docs. If you right-click and select "download" it will download in .doc format. Yes, worthless! I copy the html, code and all from the file on my PC, and paste it into a blank Doc file, which is OK for a backup of that file, plus it will spell-check and all, but it is not an easy way to cloud save or sync. And, it cannot open the browser to view it, because it is internal to (or already inside of) the browser. The only accurate way to preview a .html file, is for the file to be external to a browser (any web browser), and then opened inside or with that browser.
To repeat: If you simply click on it, it will be opened by/in Docs, and displayed therein as a web page (and poorly too, since it cannot connect to the styling of the .css file). If you right-click on it, and select "display", it will give a similar display only without opening it in Docs.
I am not exactly sure what you mean by display. If you just want to preview a file in google drive open it and see its contents then the only types are
PDF, Microsoft Office file, audio file, or photo.
Just double click your html file you can preview it in drive.
please see View and open files
If you are actually talking about web hosting a html file then. Hosting of HTML files from within Google drive was Deprecating in August of 2015 and shut down completely in August of 2016 so you can no longer host HTML files directly via Google drive Please see Deprecating web hosting support in Google Drive
Alternative would be to use Google Domains to host a site that way this option is not free as far as I know.
I want to use google drive to store the files, but allow the users of my website to be able to edit them transparently, so that they don't have to go to google drive's website.
Is this possible with the current API? Thus far I have only seen how to create an app for them to install in google drive, or doing something like DrEdit (https://developers.google.com/drive/examples/), which parses the files to JSON and uses the ACE editor, which is definitely not what I want.
EDIT:
I believe it is not possible to do this with Google Drive, I've decided to go with Zoho Docs instead.
Yes it's possible. The biggest consideration is how much formatting you want to support. Eg. if it's plain text, it's very simple. If you want to support character or layout formatting, it becomes more complex.
I don't believe its possible to embed the editor (or even embed a preview!) using an iframe, because if you look at how the google docs page loads, it first redirects you to the login page, and that automatically logs you in if you are already logged in, and redirects you back to the docs editor.
This means that the iframe would have to at least pass through the login page, even if the user doesn't need to enter anything. However, google's login page has the x-frame-option header set to SAMEORIGIN (or deny?), and thus, the browser refuses to display it, and thus you can't actually get logged in!
The only way I've found to enable just preview embedding (not editing), is to publish the document first (via the File->publish to web menu item).
I have made a page in html5 with css3. It works fine on local (I dont use any server, just doubleclick in the index to open it).
I want to put it in google drive. I have load all the documents needed, but when I try to open the html, I can only see the text (I mean, it is not being executing, I can see just the source code).
Any suggestion?
Not available any more, https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en
Host web pages with Google Drive
Note: This feature will not be available after August 31, 2016.
I highly recommend https://www.heroku.com/ and https://www.netlify.com/
EDIT: As of August 2016 Google Drive can no longer be used to host static web pages, so this solution no longer works.
Create a new folder in Drive and share it as "Public on the web."
Upload your content files to this folder.
Right click on your folder and click on Details.
Copy Hosting URL and paste it on your browser.(e.g. https://googledrive.com/host/0B716ywBKT84AcHZfMWgtNk5aeXM)
It will launch index.html if it exist in your folder other wise list all files in your folder.
I don't think it is necessary to "host" the content using the way from the accepted answer. It is too complicated for a normal user with limited developing skills.
Google actually has provided hosting feature without using Drive SDK/API, what you need is just few clicks. Check this out:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2881970
It is the same to the answer of user1557669. However, in step 4, the URL is not correct, it is like:
https://drive.google.com/#folders/...
To get the correct host URL. Right click on the html file (you have to finish 1-3 steps first and put the html in the public shared folder), and select "Details" from the context menu. You will find the hosting URL right close to the bottom of the details panel. It should look like:
https://googledrive.com/host/.../abc.html
Then you can share the link to anyone. Happy sharing.
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While drive allows you to edit plain text and HTML files I don't believe they allow the HTML to actually be displayed. I don't think they want people hosting websites from their drive space.
A lot of the solutions offered here do not seem to work anymore. I'm currently on a chromebook and wanted to view an HTML5 banner. This seems impossible now through Google Drive or other apps (as mentioned in previous comments).
The method I ended up using to view the HTML5 was the following:
Open Google Adwords (create a free account if you dont have one)
Click on Ads in the top panel
Click on "+AD" and choose image ad
Choose "upload an ad"
Drag and drop your zip file into the area
Click on Preview
Voila, you will see your HTML5 banners in their full beauty
There may well an easier way, but this way is pretty good too. Hope it helps and worked well for me.
Create a new folder in Drive and share it as "Public on the web."
Upload your HTML, JS & CSS files to this folder.
Open the HTML file & you will see "Preview" button in the toolbar.
Share the URL that looks like www.googledrive.com/host/... from the preview window and anyone can view your web page.
Found method to see your own html file (from here (scroll down to answer from prac): https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/YY_fou2vo0A)
-- use Get Link to get URL with id=... substring
-- put uc instead of open in URL