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[hjalte1983 Friend hjalte1983Join date: September 2012Posts: 328Downloads:7Uploads:105 Thanks: 101 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#190482

What extension do people use to view pdf files on a site ?

[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#505315

Hi,

I am not so sure i get your question, usually every browser supports view on pdf files, can you please clarify your question a bit?

Regards

Manos

[hjalte1983 Friend hjalte1983Join date: September 2012Posts: 328Downloads:7Uploads:105 Thanks: 101 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#505318

kinda like this.
http://www.redderen.dk/

so i can stay on the website, browsing all the pdf

[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#505322

Ok i think i got it now, looks to me you need something like that here -> http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/social-web/social-display/documents-cloud-based

Let me know if that’s what you were looking for!

Regards

Manos

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[hjalte1983 Friend hjalte1983Join date: September 2012Posts: 328Downloads:7Uploads:105 Thanks: 101 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#505521

Still testing, i took the most popular, ARI Docs Viewer. But there is a huge problem, the extensions using google docs are bad, because google compress the pdf files so the images getting bad.
see what i mean : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16659300/poor-image-rendering-with-google-docs-pdf-viewer

you can see exactly what i mean here:
http://www.rfkkbh.dk/index.php/database/rfk-kobehnavn/elever/235-elevplan-til-opslagstavler

guess iframe is the best solution here ?

but thanks so far, still looking.

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#505710

Hi hajalte1983,

In this case, we suggest you to contact with ARI Soft to get better solution from their developers at http://www.ari-soft.com/ARI-Docs-Viewer/. In addition, reading the ARI Viewer’s documentations is highly recommended by the author at http://www.demo2.ari-soft.com/joomla-documents-viewer.html#usage

Note: I removed the private info because of your website’s security guarantee. It will be better that you send Private Message to pascm with admin login info.

[hjalte1983 Friend hjalte1983Join date: September 2012Posts: 328Downloads:7Uploads:105 Thanks: 101 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#506077

they dont give any solution, they just wrote:

Hello,
PDF files are loaded via Google Docs service. It can be not fully compatible with version of your PDF file.
Regards,
ARI Soft

guess i’ll have to use oldschool iframe

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#506098

Interesting subject, may i ask what’s your image format with in the PDF file ?
Maybe you can try JPG (progressive) and see how that works for you.

[hjalte1983 Friend hjalte1983Join date: September 2012Posts: 328Downloads:7Uploads:105 Thanks: 101 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#506100

i actually dont know what images file i have, i didnt make the pdf, but i can read many got the same problem, they tried to do jpg, png, gif… same problem.. i asked Ari Soft for other solutions, and they just wrote this:
Hello,

You can load PDF documents into <IFRAME> (use engine=”iframe”), but it will work only if PDF viewer addon is installed in user’s browser.

Regards,
ARI Soft

Its kinda wierd i can’t find any good extension for such a simple thing,

I found this
http://groupdocs.com/
but they are a bit expensive..

[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#506101

Looks like you can try for free first and see if it’s any good for you.

[hjalte1983 Friend hjalte1983Join date: September 2012Posts: 328Downloads:7Uploads:105 Thanks: 101 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#506102

Actually doing that right now 🙂

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