The Problem
I have a 35mb PDF file with 130 pages that I need to put online so that people can print off different sections from it each week.
I host the PDF file on Amazon S3 now and have been told that the users don't like to have to wait on the whole file to download before they choose which pages they want to print.
I assume I am going to have to get creative and output the whole magazine to JPGs and get a neat viewer or find another service like ISSUU that doesn't suck.
The Requirements and Situation
I am given 130 single page PDF Files each week (All together this makes up The Magazine).
Users can browse the Magazine
Users can print a few pages.
Can Pay
Automated Process
Things I've tried
Google Docs Viewer - Get an Error, Sorry, we are unable to retrieve the document for viewing or you don't have permission to view the document.
ISSUU.com - They make my users log in to print. No way to automate the upload/conversion.
FlexPaper - Uses SWFTools (see next)
SWFTools - File is too complex error.
Hosting PDF File with an Image Preview of Cover - Users say having to download the whole file before viewing it is too slow. (I can't get new users. =()
Anyone have a solution to this? Or a fix for something I have tried already?
PDF documents can be optimized for downloading through the web, this process is known as PDF Linearization. If you have control over the PDF files you are going to use, you could try to optimize them as linearized PDF files. There are many tools that can help you on this task, just to name a few:
Ghostscript (GPL)
Amyuni PDF Converter (Commercial, Windows only, usual disclaimer applies)
Another option could be to split your file in sections and only deliver each section to its "owner". For the rest of the information, you can put bookmarks linking to the other sections, so that they can be retrieved also if needed. For example:
If the linearization was not enough and you do not have a way to know how to split the file, you could try to split it by page numbers and create bookmarks like these:
-Pages 1-100
-Pages 101-200
-Pages 201-300
...
-Pages 901-1000
-All pages*
The last bookmark is for the ambitious guy that wants to have the whole thing by all means.
And of course you can combine the two approaches and deliver each section as a linearized PDF.
Blankasaurus,
Based on what you've tried, it looks like you are willing to prep the document(s) or I wouldn't suggest this. See if it'll meet your needs... Download ColdFusion and install locally on your PC/VM. You can use CF's cfpdf function to automatically create "thumbnails" (you can set the size) of each of the pages without so much work. Then load it into your favorite gallery script with links to the individual PDFs. Convaluted, I know, but it shouldn't take more than 10 mins once you get the gallery script working.
I would recommend splitting the pdf into pages and then using a web based viewer to publish them online. FlexPaper has many open source tools such as pdf2json, pdftoimage to help out with the publishing. Have a look at our examples here:
http://flexpaper.devaldi.com/demo/
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i'm while in school project about malware injected documents.
key function will made by C i think.
but my idea is, if we can check the content inside of it,
only we have to do is just save the usual version of code, check the similarity and filter it?
so my question is...
can chrome extension possible to intervene in the download process and view the contents of the specified format files without execution?
(Both the conditions that are authorizable and 'not to be executed' are important.)
i googled it for few weeks, but only can i find was "how to make download function" kind of stuffs..
I have recently downloaded my facebook archive, which is a very old account I started in 2009.
There is some conversations I would like to read, the main problem is that messages.html inside the zip weights 98 mo.
Unfortunately,neither mozilla or google chrome can open those 21109 lines of codes in a webview without crashing.
I could open the document with Notepad++, but it's just like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Could you help me please ?
Further to the LINUX comments, we can only assume you are trying to look (or search) inside the html file. You can use any good, text editor like: TextPad, EditPad, etc. You can also download "Unxutils" (not it is not mis-spelled) and use the Windows ports of grep/sed/awk/head/tail/cut etc. There maybe comments or answers posted to use Cygwin which work fine, but require the use of DLL libraries and such. The UnxUtils are stand-alone exe files are work right out of the box with no installation required.
If you are interested in getting some readable files for each conversation you can use the first part of this tutorial which generates csv files which are easily searchable.
http://openmachin.es/blog/facebook-messages
Hi guys I am trying to download a document from a swf link in ipaper
Please guide me on how can I download the book
Here is the link to the book which I want to convert to pdf or word and save
http://en-gage.kaplan.co.uk/LMS/content/live_content_v2/acca/exam_kits/2014-15/p6_fa2014/iPaper.swf
Your kind guidance in this regard would be appreciated.
Regards,
Muneeb
first you open the book in your browser with network capturing (in developer/s tools).
you should open many pages at diffrent locations with and without zoom
then look in the captured data.
you will see that for each new page you are opening, the browser asks for a new file (or files).
this means that there is a file for each page and with that file your browser is creating the image of the page. (usually there is one file for a page and it is some format of picture but I encountered base64 encoded picture and a picture cut into four pieces).
so we want to download and save all the files that are containing the book's pages.
now, usually there is a consistent pattern to the addresses of the files and there is some incrementing number in it (as we can see in the captured data the difference between following files), and knowing the number of pages in the book we can guess ourselves the remaining addresses till the end of the book (and of course download all the files programmatically in a for loop)
and we could stop here.
but sometimes the addresses are bit difficult to guess or we want the process to be more automatic.anyway we want to get programmatically the number of pages and all the addresses of the pages.
so we have to check how the browser knows that stuff. usually the browser downloads some files at the beginning and one of them contains the number of pages in the book (and potentially their address). we just have to check in the captured data and find that file to parse it in our proram.
at the end there is issue of security:
some websites try to protect their data one way or another (ussually using cookies or http authentication). but if your browser can access the data you just have to track how it does it and mimic it.
(if it is cookies the server will respond at some point with Set-Cookie: header. it could be that you have to log-in to view the book so you have to track also this process. usually it's via post messeges and cookies. if it is http authentication you will see something like Authorization: Basic in the request headers).
in your case the answer is simple:
(all the files names are relative to the main file directory: "http://en-gage.kaplan.co.uk/LMS/content/live_content_v2/acca/exam_kits/2014-15/p6_fa2014/")
there is a "manifest.zip" file that contains "pages.xml" file which contains the number of files and links to them. we can see that for each page there is a thumb, a small, and a large pictures so we want just the large ones.
you just need a program that will loop those addresses (from Paper/Pages/491287/Zoom.jpg to Paper/Pages/491968/Zoom.jpg).
finally you can merge all the jpg's to pdf.
So, I've been trying to get a web page to display links to videos (over a symbolic link) dynamically (i.e., without hardcoding an <a></a> tag for each one) I have, and I think I may have found a solution, albeit a hacky one:
Video
Ignoring that this is a horrible way to do this, does anyone know how to format the following?:
I'm guessing there is an apache config file somewhere, but it is extremely hard to search for it as I do not know what it is called when files are just listed in this manner.
i'm basically looking to resize the widths of columns, and maybe even do some pretty-fication.
this is all running on my web/file server and is being accessed form my local machine.
This is what you're looking for:
http://perishablepress.com/better-default-directory-views-with-htaccess/
This tutorial details how directory listing by Apache can be modified to suit your taste using HTAccess file.
Using Apache HeaderName and ReadmeName directives and the module "mod_autoindex.c" you can add custom markup to your directory listing pages.
For displaying links to A/V and other files, look at my website: https://wrcraig.com/ApacheDirectoryDescriptions.
It goes beyond the default directory description, providing a spreadsheet to assist in creating detailed descriptions and exporting them in FancyIndex/AddDescription format for inclusion in .htaccess.
It also provides a menu driven BASH scripted alternative, using the FancyIndex descriptive data above (automatically adding A/V durations) to recursively populate a custom index.html while retaining the security features of .htaccess.
The site has examples of the input spreadsheet and both the FancyIndex output and the optional BASH scripted output.
I am using this site template to create a mobile/iPhone friendly site. I want to have it link to files, and below the link I want it to show the creation date. Currently everything is working fine but everytime I upload the file I also have to go into the index.html and change the modification date. Is there any type of script to do this for me that will work on my site? I have very basic HTML understanding, hence why I am using a template.
Thanks!
you're going to need some server-side scripting like PHP or ASP.NET. Using that, there are built-in File IO libraries where you can get the creation/modified date.
There are 2 ways to show file's last modification date (and only one of them works for creation).
You can have a file list generated by the file-listing capability of your web server. Basically, any URL mapping to a directory that is permitted to show its contents will result in a web page listing the directory contents, like this:
Index of /images/appimages/MastheadButtons
Name Last modified Size Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Parent Directory 22-Jun-2010 09:35 -
GP.JPG [link] 22-Jun-2010 09:41 1k
web.jpg [link] 29-Jan-2003 15:28 17k
You can have a back-end (CGI) script which produces the HTML page print any info you wish.
If you only know HTML, the second approach would not be practical for you. If you know some programming language in which to write web apps (PHP, Perl, anything), you can ask a more targeted qyestion of how to achieve what you want in that language.
However, HTML by itself is running on your browser. It doesn't execute any code on the web server where the file lives and thus doesn't know anything about the files.
Found the solution: I changed the file extension to .php from the iPhone Website template and then inserted this code where I want the modification date to be:
<?= date("m/d/Y H:i:s",filemtime("filename.extension")) ?>