Re: PDF display

21.9.2011 9:46, Pete H wrote:

Is it possible to display an adobe pdf file on a webpage without having to
click on it first ?

Yes, and it's not a good idea at all (in almost any case). For one thing, if I visit your page using a pocket-size device (perhaps even with volume charges on data transfer), I surely don't want anything like that. For another thing, one of the most common problems that people face these days is that something goes wrong in the interaction between a web browser (or an email client) and a PDF display program such as Adobe Reader.

Yesterday my mother-in-law panicked when trying to open a few PDF attachements in email made the system stuck. Over the phone, without seeing the specifics, I gave her the usual advice: download the PDF files onto your disk, then open from there, avoiding the interaction problem. Similar issues are raised frequently on the Web, with similar cures - it often happens that when you click on a link to a PDF file, *** boink ***, but if you right-click on it, save, then open the disk file, smooth sailing. This is why a link to a PDF file, clearly annotated (e.g., with "(PDF)" after the link text) are absolutely the best way to put PDF material on the Web.

Technically, you could use iframe, embed, and (theoretically best but with least support) object; see a demo at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/pdfinclude.html
You would need to determine the actual size of the presentation in order to set the dimensions so that no rescaling happens.

I am working on the page at http://northamptoninterfaithforum.org.uk/ and
just near the top of the page is the text "NIFF POSTER childrens art 2011"
which is a link to the pdf file.

Keep it that way but append "(PDF)" or the PDF icon.

Is there something odd with the PDF file? When I open it in Adobe Reader (no matter how - even when I open it as a file saved on disk), I get the printing window as if I had given a print command. Not nice - it would happen far too often that the user accidentally prints it, and what will such a waste cause to our Earth? :-)

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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