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 ...

Gmail gets a proper PDF viewer 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.

What files can you open in Gmail? Depending on which platform you use with Gmail, you can open a range of attachments without downloading them. However, you can't open some attachment types. These ...

In the past, Gmail was able to index text and HTML file attachments for searches, but now it can also handle PDFs, Word docs and PowerPoint presentations. It is likely to support other popular ...

Google says it's implementing a fix, but circumventing PDF security right now could be as easy as opening the document inside Google's e-mail service.

Next time you receive a PDF file attachment in Gmail, hit the View link next to it. Instead of the hardly-ever-looked-good HTML view, you'll get Goog ...