palaeoman

Thanks.

And thanks for the consideration. Having the user defined icons would be a nice touch.

Thank you very much for all this. It is working very well for us. I notice that different browsers display the PDF differently. This is not a problem though. We appreciate all the other tweaks that happened along the way. The upload page has certainly been greatly streamlined.

I have another question/suggestion or 2 that I will put in a new thread as it is not directly related to PDF support.

@serge-wp Not at all. I was happy to let to lead the way. Glad that you found it useful.

PDFs are a very important part of our project. Having this sort of support within WPPA+ is very helpful.

Hello Jacob, This is indeed very good news! It appears to be very much what I was hoping to see. We will do some testing. Most excellent. Thanks!

Okay, I understand. And I understand the rationale about sticking with HTML5 constructs and features. I was hoping to avoid having to put HTML code in the descriptions as many (most) of my users have no idea what that is and would be very prone to making errors. PDF support is important to us.

For you consideration only as I have no idea what the internal working of your excellent plugin is.

WPPA+ already knows what the file type is and could take some action based on that information. If it was a PDF, then it could automatically include the suggested HTML code to create a button to cause the PDF to open. That feature could be controlled by a table entry that toggled it on or off. Another table entry would contain the text that that you would want displayed as the link button. For example:

Display PDF Open button – Yes/No
PDF Button text – “View”

Thank you very much for all the time and effort you put into authoring and supporting this plugin.

I was hoping that when you clicked on the PDF thumbnail it would be very similar to what happens when you click on the thumbnail for a Video. That is, I expected the PDF to be displayed either in a new tab or in a popup window. I see that there is some sample code in the documentation to cause a PDF file to be opened.

Would it be possible to have this code automatically invoked by clicking on a thumbnail that represents a PDF rather than having to code it for each PDF file? That would make it similar to Video (and Audio).

Would it be possible for a PDF viewer of some sort be embedded in a popup window when clicking on a PDF thumbnail? Using <iframe> comes to mind. Or a new browser tab.

I am unsure what ‘Art monkey’ does. It wasn’t obvious to me when I changed some of the settings that something different was happening.

Sorry for the delay in responding. You can see a sample of what I am referring here:

https://flinflonheritageproject.com/tedtestpage/

Table VI-B2a,b,c,d is set to ‘lightbox’