Working with PDF files in Sharepoint 2010

Sharepoint 2010 doesn't offer the best PDF experience out of the box, but it can be quicky improved applying the recomendations from this two articles:

• Opening PDF files in the browser instead of downloading them
• Displaying PDF logo and Indexing PDFs

Removing Sharepoint’s 2010 Left Nav Bar

Most of Sharepoint Page Templates and Masterpages include a left navigation bar. To remove it, we have two options:

1. Implement a custom master page, or simplier,
2. Create a (layout) page that removes the master’s nav bar by:
1. Declaring an empty Content Placeholder for PlaceHolderLeftNavBar

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"/>

2. Modifying the div’s styles

<style type="text/css">
    body #s4-leftpanel {display:none;}
    .s4-ca {margin-left:0px;}
</style>

Taken from the Kraft and Kennedy blog.