EmbedPDFPlugin

Many browsers can show PDF documents embedded just like pictures within HTML documents using the <embed> HTML tag. Unfortunately, they are usually unable to detect the preferred (screen) size and aspect ratio of the PDF document and display only a little unreadable thumbnail version of the PDF file.

• • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = embed PDF document in TWiki page

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)

• Create a link under every embedded PDF file with the specified link text if set (useful for browser that don't know how to embed PDF):
  • Set LINKTEXT = (click here to display this PDF file by itself)

• • Edit this page on your local TWiki installation and change the &lt; and &gt; three lines down to < and > to enable the <EMBED /> tag.
  • The following two pictures should then look the same (assuming you have a PDF plugin installed in your browser)
    • embed tag created using %EMBEDPDF{ pdf }%
      

      (click here to display this PDF file by itself)

• • The width and height of http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/pub/TWiki/EmbedPDFPlugin/pdf.pdf as determined by %EMBEDPDFSIZE{ pdf }% are as follows:
    • width="216" height="31"
  • Here is a pdf file for which we have a prerendered version available (I did not actually upload the pdf file, so the link under the image is dead):
    

    (click here to display this PDF file by itself)