Thanks for your suggestion Måns. The main drawback of using the Google document viewer is, as that site says, that the pdfs need to be online. I like to use Tiddlywiki to organise my local pdf collection. I have the Tiddlywiki generate a listing based on the pdf files in a certain directory and want to develop a template that will allow me to easily navigate back and forth between the text of the pdf and my notes on it. So far PMario's browser plugin solution is working quite well, but I'm still planning to look into writing a tiddlywiki plugin for maximum portability.
P.S. PMario, I just discovered your "simplicity" tiddlyspace and I really love it! On May 11, 6:30 am, Måns <humam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Meta > > I use google's document viewer via an iframe for showing pdfs and > powepoint presentations in tiddlers .. > > Checkout:http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-document-v... > > You can easily turn it into a transclusion replacing the url with a > variable... > > [[MyPdfViewer]] > > <html><iframe src="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=$1&embedded=true"; > style="width:600px; height:500px;" frameborder="0"></iframe></html> > > and use it like this: <<tiddler MyPdfViewer with: [[my pdf's > address]]>> > > Enjoy Måns Mårtensson > > On 10 Maj, 18:01, Meta <mendels...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > THanks for your reply mario. Yes, for many purposes the browser plugin > > may be better, but I still think there are benefits to rendering > > documents with pdf.js (mainly portability). A compromise would be to > > load the pdf.js file directly from github. I've tried this and it > > works. This way it will stay automatically updated, the only downside > > is no pdf viewing without an internet connection. But then, if your > > pdf files are also remote this will not be a problem. > > > On May 10, 10:28 pm, PMario <pmari...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > This project is quite interesting. But ... > > > > I had a look at the github source, 1.3 MByte (uncompressed) is 3 times > > > as much as a vanilla TW itself. Just for viewing PDFs, I wouldn't want > > > to carry that around within a TW. > > > > I personally would use the browser plugin [1], which will be > > > automatically updated. There may be plugins for other browsers too. > > > > have fun! > > > -mario > > > [1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
