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Create Content Block: PDF displayer/embed #586

Open wwwwwlwwwww opened 2 years ago

wwwwwlwwwww commented 2 years ago

This is one of a new set of issues being created to break down https://github.com/distributeaid/distributeaid.org/issues/523 into a larger number of smaller tasks to make sure that our new contributors have plenty of things they can choose to work on. https://github.com/distributeaid/distributeaid.org/issues/523 has some additional context for the information below.

We would like to be able to display PDFs inline on our website. The only real parameter here that I can think of would be the PDF file itself.

For the first iteration of this, it is probably prudent to just focus on getting a pdf to display one page at a time with a scroll functionality to move through the pages.

Eventually, we would like to make it so that documents can be viewed as booklets, kind of like this: https://issuu.com/distraid/docs/distribute_aid_quarterly_report_q2_2021. Not sure if this is easier to code up or use an embed of some sort (the issue with the website I linked was that it's a paid service). Anyway, you should NOT worry about making the PDF viewer have booklet functionality unless it jumps out as straightforward and quick to do.

coderbyheart commented 2 years ago

We would like to be able to display PDFs inline on our website.

Why?

PDFs are not meant to be displayed as a webpage, because they are statically formatted content optimized for printing. What is wrong with using a PDF viewer?

jtfairbank commented 2 years ago

@coderbyheart agreed, might be nice to have a "preview" style thing tho? Like if we want to feature a pdf somewhere with more then just a link or button, but not display the whole thing. I'll sync w/ @wwwwwlwwwww on this one.