I want to make an app with a lot of PDFs. Where one can read the PDFs online and also offline. Clicking offline read will download the first time but clicking next will open the PDF without downloading again. So how to write the code? It would be helpful if someone provided the source code of such an app.
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I have some 10,000 pages of hand-written scanned documents in google drive in somewhere around 70 pdf documents.
I am making a spreadsheet index of these, with one row for each page where I make notes of what is on each page, by actually viewing those pages, reading it, and every fully typing it if required.
I need a link, which I can put in the spreadsheet, which when clicked opens up a certain page of the pdf as an image only, and not the entire pdf, the pdf is in google drive. Is there something like this possible in Google Drive? Or should I manually download all pdf, split it into images, and then re-upload and use that?
(example - java -jar pdfbox-app.jar PDFToImage -format jpg -quality 0.75 pdffile.pdf ; and then upload all this)
I have a feeling it must be possible because when we open the pdf in browser, it loads pdf pages one by one, it takes time but it opens it in some custom image+text format, so it must be exported. Also I know there is one image version for each google slide and link is stable, so there might be something for pdf also I was thinking.
There isn’t a parameter or feature to link a pdf page in Google Drive file viewer.
Indeed as mentioned, you can link to a specific slide in Google Slides, however Google file types do have additional features.
That’s not the case for PDFs for example. A workaround I can think of would be to create a comment for each page and each comment will have its own id.
After creating the comment, you can click on the three vertical dots icon and click on Link to this comment.
Alternatively, you can send feedback to Google (On file viewer page, click on three vertical dots icon and then Send feedback to Google) making sure to describe the proposed feature.
I'm trying to find a way to host some fillable PDF forms on our website that people can download, fill out, and then they have a SUBMIT button on it that would 1) upload the completed form to a folder on our web server as a PDF file, and then ideally 2) email a direct link to the file on the server. I know how to add the button, just not clear on the actions side for this scenario.
Adobe docs have some info here, https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/publishing-interactive-pdf-web-forms.html, but nothing specific to what I need.
Does anyone have any experience with this? And if it's even a realistic goal given the number of different PDF readers, browser-based viewers, etc and how it would be supported by all?
Thanks in advance
I would like Piwik to record which pages of 8-page PDF are read by users. Is it possible?
You can only track which PDF file has been downloaded but you cannot inject HTTP-tracking-requests into the PDF file itself. You might consider putting links inside the PDF files which you would be able to track again as soon as they are clicked.
I will have a page that will regularly updated by a client (using something like TinyMCE), adding links to PDF files that I want to open in a lightbox on the page. Does code to make this a lightbox need to have the link of each PDF inside it or will the code cover any PDF links on the page? I am relativly new to lightboxes in general and was wondering if this is possible, thanks.
I believe PDF is too much for lightbox, use ThickBox with iframes instead.