As an aside to this, how do we get a link to open up in a new instance of the browser, as
in the HTML target="_blank"? That might help with the PDF's?
Regards,
Andrew
MediaWiki: 1.4.5
PHP: 4.3.10 (cgi)
MySQL: 4.0.25-standard-log
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Allow PDF uploads?
Randy, I would not say it "breaks" the Special:Newimages page. The
PDFs show up as blank images. Sure, they take up space, but it
doesn't seem to be a big deal.
Rob, some browsers do indeed render the a pdf inline in the wiki page
(at least Safari does this). The problem I've had in doing this is
that it seems to take a very long time to download the files and
render them--much longer than a comparably sized JPG file. On one
Win XP computer IE took so long we gave up. So my practice is to
point to the image page and let people download the document from
there. At least if it takes a while, they understand they asked for
something unusual.
It would be nice to be emancipated from the Image terminology when
working with documents, but, hey, this at least works.
Con
On Sep 27, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Randy Plemel wrote:
The only problem of using pdf as an image, is that it
breaks the
Special:Newimages page, and any Special page or gallery view of
images, because it can't render pdf as an image file.
If somehow you could not have pdf's show up in Special:Newimages (or
similar pages), then uploading pdf's would be great.
Randy
http://archiporn.com
On 9/27/05, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, you could do that. Sorry, for some reason I
had this vision of
you wanting the browser to render the file, as opposed to calling the
locally installed control. I really ought to think...:P
Rob Church
On 27/09/05, Con Rodi <conrodi(a)vt.edu> wrote:
Not so. You need to change $wgFileExtensions in
your
localSettings.php to something like this...
$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg',
'ogg',
'doc',
'pdf', 'txt', 'mov', 'wav' );
That will allow you to upload pdfs. You will need to refer to them
as images, though.
[[Image:something.pdf]] will try to inline the pdf file. This may
not work well in some browsers, and may slow down page loading in
all
browsers.
[[:Image:something.pdf]] will create a link to the image page that
actually holds the pdf. From there any browser can download the
pdf.
Similar details apply for word documents or others.
Con
On Sep 27, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Rob Church wrote:
PDF is a document, not an image format. As far as
I know, there is
also no server-side control which would allow display of PDF
files, so
I have a nasty feeling the answer to both your questions is, "no".
Rob Church
On 27/09/05, Bass, Joshua L <joshua.l.bass(a)lmco.com> wrote:
> I would like to allow PDF image uploads and for these to
> display as
> images.
> Is this possible? Is there a setting that controls this?
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