install PDF viewer add-on

[tkimnguyen]

Looking into https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.documentviewer

[tkimnguyen]

Also consider wc.pageturner, Flexpaper viewer, collective.pdfjs (updated version?). Must have zoom feature.

[tkimnguyen]

collective.documentviewer is installed on the server and is usable at https://plonedev.uwosh.edu/oshkoshscholars/python-brochure-pdf/view and https://plonedev.uwosh.edu/oshkoshscholars/oshkosh-scholar-vol-9-2014/view

Interestingly, these browsers all include PDF viewing features built in: Firefox, Chrome, Safari. Safari's built-in PDF viewer is the least good of the three, and both Firefox and Chrome have quite good built-in PDF viewing!

Try these URLs with each of the three browsers. If any of you have a Windows machine I'd be interested to know if IE has some built-in PDF viewing capabilities and how they compare.

https://plonedev.uwosh.edu/oshkoshscholars/oshkosh-scholar-vol-9-2014

https://plonedev.uwosh.edu/oshkoshscholars/python-brochure-pdf

If all four browsers (FF, Chrome, Safari, IE) have good built-in PDF viewing features, is collective.documentviewer necessary on the sites? It does do more things: text extraction, conversion, it'll work with Excel and Word files: more features are listed at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.documentviewer

Features

• very nice document viewer
• OCR (not configured on the server - requires additional software)
• Searchable on OCR text
• works with many different document types
• plone.app.async integration with task monitor (offline indexing and text extraction, making PDF uploads much faster)
• lots of configuration options
• PDF Album view for display groups of PDFs

[tkimnguyen]

A couple of big advantages I see so far with collective.documentviewer:

• it is much faster to launch the viewer than built-in browser viewers (because it's already done the processing required up front when the PDF was uploaded)
• you can search for words within the PDF

I'm going to go ahead and close this issue.