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PDFs not available for download? #367

Open Andhrabharati opened 3 years ago

Andhrabharati commented 3 years ago

The CDSL homepage says thus-

Each dictionary has several types of display (B L A M), as well as PDF scan and XML (in SLP1) files for download (D).

The PDF files are not available for download from current (2020) download pages.

They , however, are available at earlier date folders (2013, 2014 etc.); any reason for their removal (non-inclusion) in 2020 download pages?

drdhaval2785 commented 3 years ago

Maybe because the PDFs are now available in a public repository for download. https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon-scans

funderburkjim commented 3 years ago

background

I wanted the individual 'download' page to contain only the material needed for local installations of displays. And, if someone did a local installation, then they would also get their own download page.

For this purpose, the very large pdfs were excluded from the download.

1. Change homepage

It is no longer accurate. The phrase pointed out above needs to be reworded to reflect current situation.

2. Possible separate pdf download page

Since there was no user interest in pdf downloads, no replacement web page for downloads was developed.

A separate page on the website could be developed with links to the pdfs that are available.

For many of these, I constructed pdf bookmarks to make the pdfs more useable. That is the form of pdf that is available.

3. subsequent homepage update

After the web page is developed and is functioning, the homepage can be changed to include link to new pdf download page (for Cologne version of homepage).

@drdhaval2785 Do you want to take on task #1, and, if you decide it is worthwhile, tasks 2 & 3?

funderburkjim commented 3 years ago

note on sanskrit-lexicon-scans

The downloaded displays never did contain local individual page scanned images. However, the sanskrit-lexicon-scans repository was developed in part so that local images could easily be installed into a local installation for the user who might want to do so.

Suppose a user wants a local installation of dictionary xxx. What is downloaded from the xxx download page is a directory called 'web'. The user stores this as xampp/htdocs/cologne/xxx/web. Then the local displays are available at url http://localhost/cologne/xxx/web/.

Local image files for xxx could be installed as follows:

Thereafter, the local display will use image files in cologne/scans/xxx/pdfpages/ .

drdhaval2785 commented 3 years ago

My interest in PDF scans would be very minimal, to be frank.

Andhrabharati commented 3 years ago

No need I guess, for providing another link for PDFs.

I just pointed it out as I noticed.

If one is serious enough, now there are many ways to get the scans, manytimes better ones than Cologne has them.

Andhrabharati commented 3 years ago

so just the 1st task mentioned by Jim should be sufficient to resolve the matter.