Deeply impressed by the product, but I hate it when pricing is hidden behind "contact our sales team". That usually equals "let's first see how deep your pockets are".
Also a tactic often used by companies that keep you paying the original rates while their actual pricing for new clients have dropped considerably.
As someone who has met the guys on the team and know them on a business and personal level that's just not the case. They have been so focused on building out a kickass product that even the small things like a pricing page have been put on the back burner for now.
I know reaching out can be a pain, but these guys will iron that part of the process out as well. For now it's definitely worth your while to reach out and have a chat with them!
I have to say I'm pretty blown away. I'm more or less the sole software engineer for a group of small local newspapers, and have been on the lookout for a system to replace our current flash-based e-edition reader.
Crocodoc is the first conversion service I've seen that actually properly renders our PDFs.
I'm glad there is someone who wakes up every morning really excited about taking some of the worst, most broken, least documented, and eye-gauging binary yet immensely popular file formats in the world (PDF, XLS, PPT, DOC), and turning them into sane documents for viewing on all my screens.
Indeed really nice, and happy that they're doing this -- I absolutely love the idea.
But please don't making the viewing application be a constricted frame of a sort, that I have to use the nested scroll bar for. Let it encompass the entire page... otherwise it's just too small to comfortably see. I have the same issue with scribd. I prefer Google's PDF preview for this reason (complain with that is when I do ctrl + to enlarge, the toolbar panel is also enlarged and occupies too much of the screenspace).
I'm always a little bit flabbergasted that really smart folks consistently keep looking over this... I zoom into everything, and so do many other people. This is a super important readability issue.
Couldn't agree more. As someone who did, back in the day, dabble with the binary representation of the "composite document" format of early Word/Office files, I have to say I admire the work they've done. Even the newer, XML-based version of the document formats suck.
[+] [-] onemorepassword|13 years ago|reply
Also a tactic often used by companies that keep you paying the original rates while their actual pricing for new clients have dropped considerably.
[+] [-] zbruhnke|13 years ago|reply
I know reaching out can be a pain, but these guys will iron that part of the process out as well. For now it's definitely worth your while to reach out and have a chat with them!
[+] [-] TylerE|13 years ago|reply
Crocodoc is the first conversion service I've seen that actually properly renders our PDFs.
Sample: https://preview.crocodoc.com/view/183cbebf-8d01-4f5f-bb3a-5e...
[+] [-] 8ig8|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] davidu|13 years ago|reply
I'm glad there is someone who wakes up every morning really excited about taking some of the worst, most broken, least documented, and eye-gauging binary yet immensely popular file formats in the world (PDF, XLS, PPT, DOC), and turning them into sane documents for viewing on all my screens.
That's impressive.
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[+] [-] clicks|13 years ago|reply
But please don't making the viewing application be a constricted frame of a sort, that I have to use the nested scroll bar for. Let it encompass the entire page... otherwise it's just too small to comfortably see. I have the same issue with scribd. I prefer Google's PDF preview for this reason (complain with that is when I do ctrl + to enlarge, the toolbar panel is also enlarged and occupies too much of the screenspace).
I'm always a little bit flabbergasted that really smart folks consistently keep looking over this... I zoom into everything, and so do many other people. This is a super important readability issue.
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