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John_Sieber
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January 6, 2009
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Converting magazine pdf to online pdf magazine viewer

  • January 6, 2009
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I tried to search to look for this info but the search feature has been throwing errors for me the last couple of days. What I'm trying to do is see if CF has features or functions that would allow me to use the pdf files used for print production of a magazine to create an online magazine viewer on my web site. I'm specifically looking for the forward and backward navigation, search, links and so forth. I've seen plenty of sites using this type of viewer/reader but wonder if this is something I could create using Cold Fusion.
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    Correct answer Newsgroup_User
    If you want to *create* an online reader, then you are talking about
    Windows|Mac|Linux desktop programming to create a client plug-in for
    browsers. ColdFusion does not really do this.

    That example you provided to is just FlashPaper. Just such a client,
    plug-in tool created originally by Macromedia now acquired by Adobe
    [ http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/ There is lots of
    speculation if this product will continued to be developed, dropped in
    favor of Adobe Reader [ http://get.adobe.com/reader/ or merge the two
    products. I am not aware if any official information has been provided
    along these lines.

    These are not the only such plug-ins, but they are the best known. A
    bit of Googling turned up http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ "PDF
    Browser Plugin", but I have never heard of this one before.

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    Ruth_E__Cruz
    Participating Frequently
    September 27, 2010

    I know it's an Adobe Forum, but Flash page is not that good when is comes to pdf magazine viewer. On the contrary, many small sites are doing well in this area.

    I've tried Brad Aarron's advice, the axmag.com is a good one with a free online conversion.

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    Brad_Aarron
    Participant
    August 6, 2010

    Another good example to reconmmend http://www.axmag.com/gallery/maya2009/index.html . I've tried this and the online conversion http://www.axmag.com/submit.html seems to be free.

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    Newsgroup_UserCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    January 7, 2009
    If you want to *create* an online reader, then you are talking about
    Windows|Mac|Linux desktop programming to create a client plug-in for
    browsers. ColdFusion does not really do this.

    That example you provided to is just FlashPaper. Just such a client,
    plug-in tool created originally by Macromedia now acquired by Adobe
    [ http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/ There is lots of
    speculation if this product will continued to be developed, dropped in
    favor of Adobe Reader [ http://get.adobe.com/reader/ or merge the two
    products. I am not aware if any official information has been provided
    along these lines.

    These are not the only such plug-ins, but they are the best known. A
    bit of Googling turned up http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ "PDF
    Browser Plugin", but I have never heard of this one before.
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    John_SieberAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 6, 2009
    Yes, I was wanting to create an online reader similar to the others out there like the zino reader or something like this:
    http://www.paperator.com/user/veratour/7_Veratour_Italia.pdf/?id=veratour/7_Veratour_Italia.pdf&lan=it&bg=FFFFFF&he=541&align=m&gtp=1

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    dempster
    Inspiring
    January 7, 2009
    These types of magazine readers are usually Flash applications. You convert the PDFs to image files for each page and the Flash controls the paging effects, sounds, zoom, etc.
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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    January 6, 2009
    You mean something other the the Adobe Reader browser plug-in that works
    with linked PDF files?
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