A nice upgrade courtesy of Google Docs has been received by Gmail's integrated software-free PDF viewer. The good thing is that now when someone opens up a PDF in Gmail, it won’t fire up his native PDF viewer like the slow-to-load Adobe Acrobat. Instead it will send him to the document reader built into Google Docs.

Furthermore, the updated page view will let the user hop around the document a whole lot faster and its built in zoom will scale the text so that it fits the user’s monitor with a higher degree of detail than the text resizer found in the browser.

To add more, the option to open up PDFs as HTML pages straight from the message has gone with the transition that still remains as a viewing option once the user is in the new PDF view and in search results from Google.com.

It is being presumed that Google.com results will get the updated viewer next.

“This would be a huge benefit to Google Search users without access to a PDF viewer (like on public or shared computers) as Google's current HTML conversion wipes out much of the formatting that can keep fonts and image placement intact, which can make things like brochures and newsletters unreadable,” informed Google.