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:

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:

Rob Church wrote: PDF is a page description format, a format for stuff that is intended to be represented as a printed page. As such it can also be converted to a (high resolution) bitmap image. I guess you can combine xpdf or ghostscript into a 300 dpi PDF-to-PNG converter on the server side, and then to use MediaWiki's scaling function to present this image in any reduced scale you wish. That would be an interesting extension. But I don't think it has been done yet. One interesting aspect of PDF is that one file can contain many pages. So how do you select which of the contained pages to extract and reproduce as an image? You can make an entire gallery of thumbnails out of one PDF file. For runtime performance reasons, you might want to start the page extraction in the background as soon as the PDF file is uploaded. Or maybe not. TIFF is another container format, where one file can contain multiple pages, so the same selection/gallery problems would arise there. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se