[Xerte] pdf in xerte! But how?

[Koller Thomas]

Hi all,

just wondering:

> how to integrate pdf in Xerte 
> similar to an integration of pdf-files in ordinary html-documents.

Has anyone ever seen a PDF document really being embedded in a web page? I don't know if any browser is able to do this. 
>From what I've come across so far there are two ways PDF documents are being handled in browsers depending on your MIME type settings: 
either the PDF reader plugin opens inside the browser or the "normal" Adobe reader is being triggered.


Cheers,

Thomas

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Tenney Julian
> Sent: 16 November 2007 13:38
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] pdf in xerte! But how?
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> The way to do it would be to provide a link in Xerte to the 
> pdf file, so when the user clicks on it, the file opens in a 
> new browser window. There's no support for pdf in the flash 
> player I'm afraid,
> 
> getURL("http://server/myFile.pdf", "_blank"); //I think
> 
> Julian 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> corax7 at gmx.net
> Sent: 16 November 2007 11:05
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] pdf in xerte! But how?
> 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> I am a German student who is working in the occupational 
> medicine in Gießen at the moment. And I've got the assignment 
> to create an e-learning project with Xerte for medicine students.
> I already know that Xerte is an amazing programme but it 
> seems to me that Xerte has problems with other files like pdf.
> But maybe you are able to help a novice like me.
> At first I want to tell you that I tried to convert a 
> pdf-document to a flash-document with FlashPaper 2. But the 
> quality of the text was unacceptable. So I was looking for 
> other methods. Of course I know that we can use ActionScript 
> to fulfil this task. But I'm also a novice in ActionScript. 
> So I wrote that e-mail because I am completely stumped and 
> hope that you have an idea how to integrate pdf in Xerte 
> similar to an integration of pdf-files in ordinary html-documents.
> 
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> Frederic G.
> 
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