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GoogleViewer

Questions answered by this recipe

How can I embed PDF, PPT, DOC, or TIFF files in a wiki page?

Description

GoogleViewer supports embedding PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft Word .doc files, and TIFF files on a wiki page. They may be hosted on your own wiki website, or on GoogleDocs, or elsewhere on the web. It is not necessary to have a Google account to use the viewer services. For more info on Google Viewer, visit http://docs.google.com/viewer.

A Note on Supported Formats
The GoogleViewer page listed above states that "PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, and TIFF files are supported." In addition, experimentation shows that it also seems to support DOC and ODT files as well. RTF files, however, seem to fail, and quite strangely I've found that PPT files exported from GoogleDocs occasionally seem to fail, while the same PPT opened and then saved with OpenOffice/NeoOffice works! So, if at first you don't succeed, save save again ... from another program, or in a different format. overtones99 December 22, 2010, at 07:16 PM

Demo: http://plus1plus1plus.org/Resources/PmWiki-GoogleViewer

Notes

To install, include GoogleViewer.phpΔ in config.php:

You must also define $UploadUrlFmt (the path to your uploads directory) and $group in config.php before including your recipe. If these haven't already been defined, your installation may look like:

     $group = PageVar($pagename,'$Group');
     $UploadUrlFmt = "http://mysite.com/pmwiki/uploads";
     include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/GoogleViewer.php");

The most basic syntax is:

The filename can be provided in several formats:

• (:googleviewer http://blah.com/myfile.pdf:) - view a file hosted on an external site, using a full url
• (:googleviewer testfile.pdf:) - view a file in the current group
• (:googleviewer Group./testfile.pdf:) OR (:googleviewer Group/testfile.pdf:) - view a file in another group on the same wiki

4 optional parameters are available:

• width - (default: 600) - can be included as a pixel-value (i.e. width="500"), or as a fluid percentage value (i.e. width="100%")
• height - (default: 780) - only seems to respond intuitively to a pixel-value: i.e. height="600"
• embedded - (default: true) - when set to 'true', the pdf shows up as a single page, and all icons are small and listed at the top; when set to 'false', more of the GoogleDocs interface emerges, such as the "download" and "print" links at the top, a large GoogleDocs icon/link, and most notably the column on the right showing thumbnails of all the pages, with navigation tools. This latter setting is probably most useful for a long document where nonlinear navigation is of importance.
• style - css style information can be provided, i.e. style="border:5px dotted red;"

To define different wiki-wide default values, declare something like this in config.php before including the recipe:

For the sake of comparison (not competition : ) to other recipes or pdf-viewing services, it's worth pointing out that:

Release notes

• 2010-05-16 - added parameter "embedded="
• 2010-01-23c - fixed bug that prevented recipe from working for users with per-page-uploads ($UploadFileFmt = '$Group/$Name'; the globals $group and $UploadUrlFmt are no longer needed for this recipe
• 2010-01-23 - initial release (overtones99) (feel free to improve upon this recipe)

See also

• Scribd - Embed Scribd documents & pdfs on a webpage
• ViewPDF - recipe by Peter Bowers that uses the Adobe PDF Plugin to embed pdfs
• PmDocConvert - PmDocConvert makes it easy to upload and display formats that can be handled by OpenOffice.org on a PmWiki page.
• Ape - embed a PDF on a page using the Google Docs service

Contributors

• overtones99

Comments

See discussion at GoogleViewer-Talk